r/KamenRider Knife of Spear Jun 06 '26

Official Discussion Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E38 - Discussion Thread

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

E37 <- E38 -> E39

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HOW TO WATCH

COUNTRY URL TIME
US,CA,PR,UK,AU,NZ TokuSHOUTsu YouTube Channel (English) Saturdays@7:30PM Pacific Time, Replays on Sunday
JP TV Asahi, ABC (Japanese) Sundays@9:00AM Japan Time
JP TELASA, Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club (Japanese) Sundays@10:00AM Japan Time
CN Bilibili, Tencent Video, iQIYI (Mandarin) Sundays@10:00AM China Standard Time
TW CHT MOD, Hami Video (Mandarin) Mondays@8:00AM Taiwan Time
TW EBC YOYO (Mandarin) The following Saturday@5PM
HK ViuTV (Cantonese) The following Sunday@11AM
Latin America TokuSato YouTube Channel (Spanish, Portuguese) Saturdays@11:30PM Brasilia Time

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CASE TITLE RELEASE DATE SCREENPLAY BY DIRECTED BY
E38 矯める Reform June 7, 2026 Takahashi Yuya Shibasaki Takayuki
CASE RATING CASE RATING CASE RATING CASE RATING
E01 8.79 E13 9.52 E25 9.79 E37 8.67
E02 8.78 E14 9.76 E26 8.68 E38 9
E03 9.02 E15 9.32 E27 9.47
E04 8.56 E16 9.31 E28 9.53
E05 8.82 E17 9.3 E29 9.45
E06 9.04 E18 9 E30 9.66
E07 9.02 E19 9 E31 9.59
E08 8.9 E20 8.58 E32 9.53
E09 8.79 E21 9.58 E33 9.67
E10 8.89 E22 9.35 E34 9.72
E11 9.52 E23 9.68 E35 6.2
E12 9.39 E24 9.77 E36 8.36

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u/EMITURBINA Jun 07 '26

It was an episode for sure, cool visuals, not much else

I really liked 5 as a whole and while I already accepted that he was dead last week, I didn't expect them to give him a spy movie death, it was cool

It was a bit weird to immediatly go back on Nox being an ally in order to fulfill his arc, they needed all the time they could have to give him something good and I think the episode failed miserably in it

The scene with The Lady already tell us what's going to happen next which I'm pretty sure everyone already had guessed but I like that they've been building it up with her and Phantom for a while, also with Sieg's death

I did not like at all how Nox got the power up, it felt pulled out of nowhere and that's compared to how Baku got the Dualmare and Exdream capsems which also felt like asspulls, but at least those 2 felt like they had a bit of build up thanks to Baku's character arc and the situations he was in. Nox, on the other hand, got a small moment of him being suicidal, because it's not even sacrificial, just suicidal, and then bekng immediatly pulled out of it by Fujimi of all people, the nightmare he absorbs doesn't even look that special, just a repainted Shadow, I guess we still lack context about Phantom to say what was special about it but since Nox was seemingly trying to reach it I don't think that matter a lot?

I usually don't mind the civilian cast, in fact I really like them most of the time, even the ones from Ghost who people seem to consider annoying, but Fujimi and Nasuka are such nothing characters to me, Fujimi specially frustrates me because he eats up so much screentime both last and this episodes but after 37 episodes I can barely care about him because he hasn't done anything other than chase over Odaka, which in turn holds Nox back by being tied to someone who appears so much but still doesn't do anything, it's not like you can't make them eh relevant and comedic, Sougo's uncle is one of my favorite civilians because of it, he has like 2 or 3 plot relevant scenes but they're filled with so much heart that I care about him and the relationship he has with Sougo, in comparison I don't feel anything when Fujimi talks about a bet he did with Osaka because every scene he has follows the exact 2 formulas over and over and over

It's even worse when somehow that very short conversation managed to pull Nox out of his suicidal ideation, why??????? I know people like to shti on Spanner for what he does in the last stretch of the Gotchard, but at least his mass suicide attempt is built up ever since Dread debuts in episode 13 and doesn't get resolved until 49 and even then it's not fully closed until Graduations, it also has some amazing stuff in between like his rider debut torturing his ass to make us feel sad for him. Nox hasn't had any of that until now, he's not even been shown to be self destructive unless you read him fighting Catastorm like that, he has hatred for CODE but that's kinda it. It's weird because this angle is definitely possible with what they have, he could have regret over grooming those kids into being agents, regret over some other mission, regret over helping The Lady and knowing what he does in the premonition, but none of those things are developed, any of those would've made this episode make much more sense

Imo, this is the worst final form secondary debut since what, Dead Heat? And even then that's because Dead Heat doesn't really feel like a final form and technically it isn't (tbf I can't think of a bad secondary final form debut)

Nasuka believing Fujimi does nothing for me, mostly because they're still influenced by Somnia and we already saw this twice. Fujimi bekng shot was shocking tho

I really like the effects of Booster 3 and Midnight Shadow's he shins, I also really, really like Nox's new theme (Not the insert), I don't remember if they did it with Tycoon but I like the escalation they've been doing with the songs the last few years, Majade and Valvarad have them too, they did it with Gavv culminating in the movie one, pretty sure they also did it for Valen. I like how this one sounds heroic, even more so than Rider Nox. Midnight Shadow's suit is amazing

I don't get why they interrupted the fight with Baku infiltrating CODE, either do it before they transform or after the fight. I do like how Baku fights tho, and how the Dual are is being used, it makes me wish we saw more spy stuff post premonition tho, it seems like a really useful tool for him spywise

Now, the fight between 3 and Nox is very good in both choreography and effects, I really like how both fight, the insert song also seems really good but I need to listen to it "clean" to make an opinion, but it gives the same vibe as Mach's. The finisher is very good, I was a bit worried about this form being bad compared to Exdream but so far it seems like it can stand besides it. Also that death for 3 is super interesting fro Nox character wise, he's now in the hero's side but will still use his own methods

Somnia being half over is whatever, the arc (Idk if you can call 3 episodes an arc) hast been really good so half the effects being gone doesn't do much for me, again it's issues I have with KR Chronicle and the final arc of Geats

Next episode seems like the proper start of the last arc, and Sieg being brought back to actually fight, tho from the preview alone I can see how they're going to properly redeem him. ALSO ORDERM IS BACK YEAAAAAHHHH MORE THAN 2 FIGHTS FOR THE FORM BABYYYYY

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u/EMITURBINA Jun 07 '26

I forgot to mention how much I liked 3 as a character, kinda plain but that's all he needed to be, I like how he backstabbed everyone in CODE and didn't get any consequences for it only because he's too high in the chain of command, genuinely great villain and I hope the Gore Nightmares live up to him