saber 40-47 & extra chapter!!! (END)
where is luna, the plot's happening
by the power of solomon, ryoga's been turned eeeeeeevil!!!
anyway, yuri's going into the wonder world with the sword of darkness to find luna, and everyone else gets to go do,,, other stuff!!!
and isaac gets to do big villain poses in the woods and summon his giant fist
so ryo and daishinji are off to stop bloodlust ryoga, and the primary colour trio + yuri who completed his mission real fucking quick get to fight isaac/solomon!!!
awwww yeaaaa it's finally like in the the opening to the damn show!!!
hey luna wanna hear a loredump?
BLACK HOLE, BLACK HOLE, REVOLUTIO-
damn isaac's been kind of a jobber lately
oh no not his evil beam!!! now blades and espada are eeeeeeevil!!!!
so luna is basically the abstracted personification of the wonder world itself, and touma's going to disappear if he saves the world, never to see his friends again because she became special-er friends with him
wow luna gets to make a choice? no not really
angst circle angst circle
wowowow the power of friendship!!!!!!! and also the power of just really hating this fucking guy
damn even yuri refuses the evil beam
and ryoga too! took him long enough
you know what that means? it means saber gets ANOTHER form!!!
so xross is like,,, one of his final forms
featuring saber is a fun name though
and thus, isaac gets be defeated as a pathetic, lonely man
mei where did you come from???
and there goes the omniforce book! good riddance LMAO
hell yeah for friendship and such
wow it's like the beginning of the end credits and everything
but don't get comfortable yet, there's one more arc to go, and one villain left!!!
damn isaac managed to push that thing back together? give up dude
welp, looks like isaac isn't destined to be one of those rider villains who gets tiresome,,,,, because storious just fucking disintegrated him with minimal fanfare
LMAO kind of a fitting death for such an over the top villain
and so the final villain will be,,,, STORIOUS!!!
,,,,,,whoever the fuck he is
im gonna be honest i found all three megid villains utterly boring since the start, but at least storious has cool eyeshadow and a voice changer now,,? that's something!
storious says it's final arc time
i mean he's not wrong stories do work so much better when they actually end, that's why i enjoy the fact that these shows have different stories with different casts every season, it stops things feeling stale
of course he's the villain so i think i have an idea what his idea of an "ending" is
,,,so we should probably give this tale a different one
WAHOOO SUMMER FESTIVAL TIME
look you've gotta enjoy those moments of peace while they last
time for desast and storious to have a duel!!!
desast doesn't want things to end yet, he hasn't completed his arc!!!
so he's falchion now i guess
oh hey most of the cast haven't even met tassel huh
tassel's here for the infodump!!!
basically he used to be a guy called victor who wondered why people know things, and set out on a journey with 4 others to find the secret source of all knowledge and solve everyone's problems
this turned out to have the worst consequences to any road trip ever conceived
a woman showed up and gave victor a book containing all knowledge, which then created the wonder world
victor sent all his friends there, and three of them decided to become evil like immediately, each steal a page and turn into ripoff organisation xiii
basically storious wants to write the story of the world, and also end it, because he can
then everything exploded, 2000 year war, sword of logos founded, sword of logos created like 5 other supervillains, and that's where we are now!!!
so all that could have gone better, but at the very least victor wasnt to know all this would happen, and tried many times to stop it despite having no real presence in the real world, unlike a certain other someone from another series,,, edith
anyway how's desast doing, there seems to be a charybdis megid here now
it also seems to be allergic to dying
so yeah upshot is if touma saves the world, he vanished, but if he doesn't, he doesn't get to keep his promise to luna,,, and also y'know, doesn't save the world
so obviously touma's going to meet with luna,,, but he's intending to take option c, because of course he is
he will change the future, he will not let it happen!
anyway there goes a mountain
ren have you finished your arc yet?
biting its way through to the wonder world
oh no now its arm is more large!
ah man, it's absorbing powers from anyone it's ever bitten!
that's probably not ideal
poor buster and slash, the yamcha and tenshinhan of this series
anyway, desast is dying and wants ren to kill him,,, not that he's saying that he's pretending he's gone full evil, but it's not hard to work out what his real goal is
oh hi there storious your voice changer's back on
yeah im sure luna will definitely be here soon,,,
oh nooooo not tassel,,,,,,, however will i cope with this tragic turn of events,,,,,,,,,,,
wow how funny, woman is bad at cooking, never seen that joke before
how desast's death going?
so that's kinda put a fly in his ointment
anyway yeah all this cooking made us forget storious is in the middle of enacting his big evil plan!
tassel's ready to give it up to the next generation,,,, and storious is ready to make him do it
we're really pulling for themes here, and while i think they're good i also think they could have been introduced a little soon, because my reaction to tassel dying is part indifference and also part relief, im afraid
WELP there goes the wonder world! it really is endgame time!
just a friendly ramen disagreement between foes while desast waits to die and ren draws close to concluding his character arc in a remarkably natural-feeling way for this show
man,,, desast is SO close to being an interesting character, he's S O close he's practically touching it
anyway the world's gonna end unless touma gives himself up for it,, or if we get tassel's book back from storious
now everyone using their sword actually has a defensive purpose like it's supposed to!!! wow!!!
i have lost count of what number apocalypse this is
anyway storious is here because of course he is
hey desast, bad time to have decided to goad someone into killing you
angst angst angst angst angst
aw he thinks he's looking out for ren,,,
meanwhile, storious is doing,, uh,,, something?
next episode, and desast is still dying!!!
ren has much to think about
people keep forgetting to tell each other important information lately
rintaro is a self-admitted abnormal homo sapiens
ryoga has now apologised for the first time in his entire life, and i think mei is right to treat him like a dog for it
anyway, at long last, storious is about to wait no hold on more scenes need to happen first
and the shindai siblings are here to help! wow!!! im sure they won't both get defeated in seconds to show how powerful storious is now no way!!!
i mean he's winning now but it means he's going to tragically give desast the death he wants, so like i wouldn't say he's doing good as cathartic as it is
i wish we'd spent more time with these two, at least like this when they were interesting
but a relationship this toxic means one will destroy the other, sooner or later
anyway wasn't storious going to do something?
he was going to feed all the people he's turned into books to the charybdis megid, of course!!!
and also his clone of sophia that he now has, don't worry about it, unless you need to worry about it later
time to team up with the encyclopedia siblings!!!
hmmm this is less than ideal
nah the siblings have got this
reika if you say the word oniisama one more time i will write a fanfic that kills him off
storious has been eaten, charybdis megid is the main villain now
LMAO just kidding, storious just wanted it to contain all the powers he possibly could, to then synthesise the book containing all knowledge, and start the endgame!!!
and ren eats a very sad, lonely ramen,,, :')
and storious is summoning zombies because we have four episodes left
that barrier didn't last all that long
here come the giant books!!!
wow it's like the early episodes except there's no way into the greenscreen world!
meanwhile luna's like so almost a character
storious is here to show he's a real kamen rider now
he's got a fun evil henshin sound i gotta admit, i like it :D
aw shit, the four divine sages? i may have jumped the gun calling them the shittenou for isaac, but apparently they're fulfilling this role as evil zombies here!
they're like,,, not quite kamen riders, but they do have everyone's techniques
WAS THE THE FRIEZA DEATH BALL?
anyway, storious saw evol do this, so he's going to make a big end of the world tower with a bunch of fights on each floor!!!
AND the wonder ride books are going to run out of juice!!!
kento's done being all doom and gloom though
so let's all start gearing up to tackle the big videogame final level tower!
also everyone connected to the wonder world is having stomach problems but that's fine, here sophia take the anxiety sword
ren's character arc is now complete, he'll walk his own path, but one that can be parallel to the others
DAMN RYO'S WIFE FINALLY MAKES AN APPEARANCE, for like 5 seconds
is rintaro going to tell mei he's gay at the end of this lmao
luna's only just about a character in this story she's having feelings about it
"everything's fine, you'll always be yourself, luna", BUT SHE'S NOT ANYTHING, SHE'S A CIPHER FOR ANOTHER CHARACTER
you've got to forgive yourself touma, the accident wasn't your fault,,,
oh you thought luna was going to stop being a plot device? WRONG!!!
to be clear, i don't necessarily have a problem with luna being a plot device, what i have a problem with is there are four female characters in this show, two are plot devices, one important and one not, one is a rider but her whole character turns into being obsessed with her brother, and the last one is the comic relief who the show keeps putting down by the way it frames her actions
anyway big hero shot of everyone i guess! the big tower approaches!!!
sophia is new kamen rider calibur, and i will cheer for her in the background of this big fight scene!!!
does anyone remember what the grunts were called this season? i forgot there WERE grunts this season
storious do you need a throat lozenge
here comes miniboss number 1!!! ren and daishinji will do the obligatory stay behind for this
damn even the spirits of his fellow megid are calling storious out
sophia gets at least one hero moment in this 47 episode long show :D
miniboss 2!!! rintaro and ren have got this
anyway, the book of omniscience contains all knowledge, so according to storious, humanity has never had any free will, all is simply as destined
but any book can be rewritten
and the world is never as set in stone as it appears
miniboss 3!!! shindai siblings can take this one
miniboss 4!!! touma and kento will do this one together, to keep with the 2-on-1 theme
we're riding a thin line between "people can always change their fate" and "touma is the specialest boy" here
anyway miniboss 1 is defeated through the power of desast!!!
OUGH OUCH THERE GOES DAISHINJI
HELL YEA MEI YOU CAN ALSO DO SOMETHING
and so as the last three minibosses have slightly new sparring partners, touma races to the top!!!
storious isn't done with his evil monologues just yet
everyone is the protagonist of their own story, and everyone can decide how their story ends
miniboss 2 down!!!! and ryo and daishinji,,, it seems,,, with it
likewise, miniboss 3 is destroyed with the help of rintaro, but it doesn't look like the shindai siblings are making it out of this tower,,,
storious trying to make himself seem like a full entire opposite to touma, and like it'd work better if he was interesting at any point before a couple episodes ago
well sorry you thought you had the divine gift to pluck completely new ideas from thin air dude but you've gotta understand that the entire world is connected and everything informs everything else and so all ideas have in fact come through many many other ideas and concepts first
anyway let's go power of reading!!!!!!
let the final battle begin!!!
oop, planet's starting to go, but mei has a very important email to write
hold on hold on hit pause on that apocalypse
touma has fallen into a big hole in lego city!!!
and everyone else is STILL fighting this goddamn miniboss!
so did you ever hear the one about the dragon kid?
and thus yuri sacrifices himself for rintaro and kento
but hey the lady miniboss is dead now so that means the primary colour trio can save the world, which is good cause we're about to have all books be erased!!!
and so luna ceased to be, never to be a character after all
but she would usher in, one final power-up
that thing the more recent rider shows do where the hero gets a final final form which is their first form again
oh i get it it's like the theme song
and so they killed him with the power of a complete toy collection
FUCK YEAH STORIOUS IS DEAD WOOOOOO
is this how the world ends?
it was always going to end
but maybe,,, the missing piece can come from an unexpected place
VIDEOS SENT IN BY FANS!!! JUST LIKE IN THAT VIRTUAL STAGEPLAY THING
IT ALL COMES BACK, BAY-BEEEEEE
ahem, i mean the enduring power of stories!!! and also of mei, who's the real hero here, actually
and so in the end, the world was remade, all the toys of this season shut off, and touma vanished
the fight may not quite be over yet,,,, but touma's last book did win an award!!!
and thus did the world learn the power of stories, and how they bring everyone together
so really nothing changed
but perhaps from the wonder world, touma will be able to write his own ending
oh hey he woke up all the books and stuff are back on, and everyone's back to life so everyone can have post series movies
and thus we can finally close the book on the tale of the worst road trip ever taken and its disastrous consequences
and i can close the book on the show that,,, i mean ultimately i think it succeeded a lot better than ghost so my compliments to takero fukuda on his improvement as head writer (though he actually didn't write any episodes past 43, the one where desast dies), but to be honest,,,,,, i really didn't care about most of it
i tried, i really tried, but the show just didn't grab me at all
one last piece of saber media remains in this part of my marathon!!! episode 48, the special final episode that's mostly an extended trailer for the next thing!!!
kamen rider does this sometimes
so, everyone gets a well-earned holiday after the 15 apocalypses
they'll still be around though, waiting for any post-series movies and specials to hit them
maybe there rintaro might find time to tell mei whatever he was going to tell her, because he ain't got time here!!!
hmmm a monster of a type ive never seen before, whatever could that mean what a mystery
ryoga is too awkward to do anything other than swordsman duels so we're going to do that
FINALLY rintaro is down for complete structural change!!!
one day they might let reika be a character again
anyway, happy times are interrupted by this geometric grasshopper!!!
we've had the two-in-one kamen rider, now prepare for the one-in-two kamen rider!!!
basically everyone has inner demons and under the right circumstances they can be outer demons, and under really good circumstances they can join you as a kamen rider
our main man is ikki igarashi, the comedy demon is called vice, they're kamen riders revi and vice, a.k.a. revice, and we'll get back to them properly later
anyway, there's like a plot going on here
aw man, a trio of friends are going to be separated??? that's touma's alarm call!!!
aw MAN one of the kids got used to create a monster!!! welp, better stop that
friendship restored(?), now time to fight some kinda grasshopper guy
featuring revice obviously
oh also we have a helpful kamen rider fan on the scene to help identify them with his selfie stick
that megalodon looks very decade-y!!!
weird grasshopper guy: defeated!!!
unfortunately the grasshopper stamp ain't one of the main pieces of the next toyline
so many things are happening at once
and thus all's well that ends well!!!
so what was rintaro going to say?
dude you already found your family if you have something else to say take another year off and rephrase
im going to ignore the attempted implication that you're straight
and thus everyone is off to do their own thing, but they'll certainly meet up as friends pretty often
as for what else they'll be up to, or what the hell these revice folks are about,,,, well that story is, as they say,,, one for another time