In this second episode, Takeshi stumbles upon a weird plot by Shocker to convert an apartment building into Shocker thralls via the powers of a Bat Man (not that one) with sonic wave vampire powers... it's slightly ill-defined. Kamen Rider throws multiple Shocker Grunts off the top of the building to their deaths, no seriously, he tosses them off and then it just cuts to raspberry jam being splashed across the pavement, they're amazingly explicit about it. He then also kills the Bat Man (who to be fair looks more like Man Bat than Batman but hey whatever) and is able to use the bat's claws to cure everyone of their zombie-vampire-thrall state. As you do.
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| The "Terrifying" Bat Man |
A subplot here is that Ruriko (from the previous episode) is trying to follow Takeshi because she erroneously believes he murdered her father. Tobei Tachibana, is a racing trainer and the owner of a snack cafe (two obviously simpatico occupations), who appeared last time but I assumed he was a one-off character, and whom everyone just calls 'Master' (in English) which is totally normal. Anyway, he runs some interference on Ruriko to help Takeshi, and I assumed this was going to be the new status quo, with Tachibana helping Takeshi while Ruriko chased after them trying to "catch" them. Nope! Ruriko falls into the Bat Man's clutches because she's a moron, and then when Takeshi saves her she realizes she was wrong about him. Good to see KR's reputation for garbage female characters starting this early in, ha ha, uggghhhhh. Subplot resolved, I guess? Will she even be around next episode?
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| The Bat Man's human form, |
Oh and we get a line in here saying Shocker is the leftovers from Nazi science formed into a new organization, and that their goal is to take over the world by turning everyone into cyborgs that they control. That's, uh, yeah, that's one way to do it. One person at a time, it'll go quick like that, for sure.
Kamen Rider: Episode 2 get a 3/5.
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