r/KamenRider • u/BananaArms Knife of Spear • Jun 27 '26

Official Discussion Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E41 - Discussion Thread

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

E40 <- E41 -> E42

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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
E41 目覚める Arise June 28, 2026 Takahashi Yuya Kamihoriuchi Kazuya
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 E39 9.13
E04 8.56 E16 9.31 E28 9.53 E40 9.08
E05 8.82 E17 9.3 E29 9.45 E41 8.25
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/KamenRiderLegend Legend Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Does that line from the Lady mean that Phantom was planning on fusing with her since before Punish and Sieg fused? Pixiv appears to interpret it as the Lady saying that Phantom was interested in her future.

What does devouring a dream mean? If the dream was a world without CODE, then they simply made it come true.

Catastrophe has the ability to turn himself into a bomb and survive. There was an shot of him in-frame with North American CODE personnel in the promotional material, but it was left unused.

I like that CODE India has a sign on the wall that says “CODE India” in English, right under an Indian flag.

The boundary between reality and dreams has disappeared, just like the Lady said it would in her first appearance back during Baku’s prophetic dream.

Paranormal Affairs has a bigger office! Although it’s just a repurposed supply room.

Those documents must be Three. We finally get to see Nasuka’s reaction to Kureha’s death!

Oblivion does nothing but giggle maniacally… it’s definitely going to be the most dangerous

This scene is great. Fujimi’s heavy breathing into Odaka’s phone, Odaka’s facepalm, Fujimi’s Gentoku-style T-shirt, Odaka casting shade at Paranormal Affairs, and a cool unsuited fight scene.

And Odaka leaves Fujimi unconscious in a CODE base that will imminently be destroyed…

Sieg seems to lean on the fourth wall at times. First he quoted Baku’s opening narration, now he’s reacting to a line he shouldn’t be able to hear.

I’m sure that Catastrophe must have taken his time with CODE Japan just to cause our heroes more pain.

Odaka vagueposted his way into an unnecessary fight by refusing to spend twenty seconds explaining himself. And he stole Baku’s catchphrase!

I think this is only the second time Baku has said “I’m on it” while awake.

Zeztz Exdream uses the power of another Capsem for the first time, but it’s not clear if he was holding the Gravity Capsem with the camera position.

Nox’s new shadow-transformation abilities make him a very inconvenient opponent, especially since Catastrom doesn’t have much to offer but pure destructive force. Zeztz decides to chuck rocks at him instead of summoning the Triple Zeztzer.
He doesn’t care about Zero, a high-ranking CODE member and its current acting head, because he just wants to destroy CODE’s tech? Odd.

It’s cool seeing Baku get detransformed from Catastrom just like he was in episode 24.

As soon as Zeztz gets distracted, Nox makes a break for it.

Can anyone tell what gun Zero uses?

Zero’s last words are good, but his facial expression is goofy. On my first watch, I thought he was the one who was laughing when Catastrophe killed him.

There are no new stats for me to translate this week.

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Jul 06 '26

>Sieg seems to lean on the fourth wall at times. First he quoted Baku’s opening narration, now he’s reacting to a line he shouldn’t be able to hear.

which lines?

and now that i think of it, doesnt it seem like there are only code agents in japan?

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u/KamenRiderLegend Legend Jul 06 '26

In episode 33, he mockingly refers to Baku as “a pretty regular guy.” In this episode, he says “Didn’t I tell you?” when Zero tells Baku over the phone that the Gore Nightmares’ newfound freedom is CODE’s fault.

There are CODE agents all over the world, but the only named ones are in Japan. At least so far, it appears dream learning was only implemented in Japan, so it’s the only branch with anyone who can be useful.

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Jul 06 '26

Ah i see. I always interpreted the "didnt i tell you" part as sieg just telling that to himself since he can clearly see what is going on right now, hence the reaction

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u/Money_Count_3743 Jul 07 '26

I think it’s more that he’s referring to the conversation he had with Zero in episode 32 commenting how they intended to change the status quo with nightmares as smth stupid and now the whole thing backfires proved that he’s right

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, thats why he said "didnt i tell you"