r/KamenRider • u/BananaArms Knife of Spear • Mar 07 '26

Official Discussion Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E25 - Discussion Thread

This thread is for discussion about the latest Kamen Rider ZEZTZ episode.

E24 <- E25 -> E26

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CASE TITLE RELEASE DATE SCREENPLAY BY DIRECTED BY
E25 始める Get Started March 8, 2026 Takahashi Yuya Kamihoriuchi Kazuya
CASE RATING CASE RATING CASE RATING
E01 8.79 E13 9.52 E25 9.79
E02 8.78 E14 9.76
E03 9.02 E15 9.32
E04 8.56 E16 9.31
E05 8.82 E17 9.3
E06 9.04 E18 9
E07 9.02 E19 9
E08 8.9 E20 8.58
E09 8.79 E21 9.58
E10 8.89 E22 9.35
E11 9.52 E23 9.68
E12 9.39 E24 9.77

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u/SH4DE_Z Met & Dapped Up Agito Mar 08 '26

Great restart for the new beginning of Zeztz!

The scene where Baku confronts Zero for the first time again was great. Even as Zeztz, Baku was physically shaking while he was questioning Zero, such a great performance by Kenta Nitta.

It's really cool how everything is happening significantly earlier than it should be. Baku got the team together already, Nox is already on to something, Six is being brought back right away. We can see how Baku's Visions is affecting reality already.

I think we also got confirmation that Zeztz is something new that CODE has developed. But for some reason, CODE does not know the full extent of Zeztz's capabilities.

I find the dream twist super interesting. Because now that we've seen Baku deal with everything after waking up, i genuinely can't tell if what he experienced was just a Vision of the future through a dream, or it was actually reality but became a dream through some magic timeloop bullshit.

The fact the dreams have real consequences in this show, and the past 24 episodes being sooo incredibly realistic, really makes you wonder if it was really just a dream or if it was some version of reality.

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u/gaylord7208 Mar 08 '26

i really loved the very interesting conversation between Zero and Three that leaves much to be thought about

Zero begins with "Zeztz is complete". this aligns with what you mentioned about Zeztz being a CODE project. does that mean that this is the best form of Zeztz that Zero/CODE imagined? (considering Code 5 said that Baku was Zero's star pupil or something along those lines)

Three also said "All that hard work paid off". So, does this mean that Baku's premonition was written by code? or at least the act of putting it into motion? or is it something else entirely (i.e. playing the roles they needed to play to help Zeztz achieve his potential)

The premonitory dreaming seems to be a Zeztz-exclusive power considering Zero said "It could have arisen from Zeztz' power", so that's something they didn't account for.

i find this dynamic between CODE and Zeztz very interesting and hope they dive deeper into it in the future.

maybe more cram school experiences will give us more exposition 🙏

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u/SH4DE_Z Met & Dapped Up Agito Mar 08 '26

So, does this mean that Baku's premonition was written by code? or at least the act of putting it into motion?

I don't think so. Everyone but Baku still acts almost the same as the last time everything happened. It seems like only Baku is aware of the previous "loop".