KR Drive 25 released

[VerusMaya II]

Nah I just think that's him playing into his role. He's the kind of guy I expect to be 200% facetious up until Shit Gets Real and suddenly he's hyper-competent.

[TsubasaGaro]

I don't think there could be another Drive Driver since what makes the Driver unique is Krim's essence. Building another Mach Driver is easy since there's no AI in it.

You don't have to put an AI in it. It can just be am empty driver hence the name Proto-Drive.

The thing is, the AI is needed to handle some internal functions. When Mach debuted, they said that there is a built-in AI handling the things Krim usually does for the Drive Driver. Rinna either got the source code from Harley to build the new Driver or Chase himself will be the AI.

[Alessar]

I don't quite understand the reasoning in this episode. Isn't it that Shinnosuke wants to go public about Drive's identity? Why is he trying to make it a secret again with Gen-san and Kyuu-chan at the end. And I don't understand why Shinnosuke is upset that the media knows about it? And why is everyone surprised? He transformed in front of a whole bunch of people in front of the hospital. The whole world will knows about it even if the chief didn't leak it to the media.

I think that Shinnosuke wanted Drive to be known so the police would stop interfering with the special unit, then he pushed for the public transformation because he needed to save so many people. I think he was, after that, trying to play along with Krim's preference having established that "riders are real." However, leaking his personal identity is another topic all together. Basically he was trying to get people to admit "spider man is real" not "spider man is real AND he's Peter Parker." There weren't cameras there, while the police might ID him, the general populace wouldn't know who he was for certain.

Celebrity can be a very damaging thing. What if groupies start camping out by the police station or his apartment and become targets of Roidmudes? It doesn't take much to get caught up in hysteria. Did you guys hear about the Buzzfeed editor whose iphone got stolen, and then when it was resold in China the new owner's photos showed up in his iCloud; he was able to post photos of the new owner to twitter? Weibo went bonkers and tracked the dude down for him, eventually he went to China to meet the guy and it was a complete and total press junket with their faces on cars, press conferences, endorsements, tours, and the works. Over finding a stolen Iphone over Twitter and Weibo. Compare that to say, a real life super hero, on the heels of a worldwide monster attack 1 year ago?

I think Kiriko should get more of a rider presence. I remember in one of the early episodes she says something like, "I would be Kamen Rider Drive if I could, but I can't so you're stuck with it." We don't know the hand-wave excuse for compatibility but it's super suspicious that her brother is able to use the Mach system and Kiriko herself can use chaser's gun. I mean think about that, she put Mad Doctor in his gun and dosed him with the resulting zap. Maybe it's not that she doesn't have KR potential but that she's not compatible with Krim??

[WannaFantaMan]

Such a good episode, but this weeks in going to be EVEN BETTER!!! CHASE FINALLY BECOMES A KAMEN RIDER!!! *flips a table in a happy rage fit* ...if you guys couldn't tell, I'm kinda having a nerdgasm here xD.

[TankCoyote]

Random thought, why doesn't Drive have a patrol car form? That would have looked cool.

Snipped most of this since you weren't responding to the whole thing

I thought Wild was the patrol car. It's black and white and has the light bar.

[takenoko]

Huh, maybe you're right. But if that's the case, that motif completely went over my head. I like the way Type Wild looks, but its naming and motif definitely don't feel policey. Plus he has a Shift Car called Justice Hunter that's an obvious patrol car that he doesn't use for the transformation.

[TankCoyote]

then Wild must be the off-roading police SUV with floodlighting

[FirenOh]

Yo, there were a few typos at 13:43 and 17:20. If these were already addressed before, just ignore this post.

This was a fantastic episode! I love how the plot's accelerating forward with these new developments, and the new dynamic with Chief Nira, and Shinnosuke's idenity being exposed.

[takenoko]

13:43 Sometimes there're Roidmude that are not despicable.

What's wrong with this one?

I can fix the script for the 17:20 one though. Not surprised people missed that one. Thanks!

[xPrimexTimex]

13:43 Sometimes there're Roidmude that are not despicable.

What's wrong with this one?

I can fix the script for the 17:20 one though. Not surprised people missed that one. Thanks!

I imagine the issue is with "there're". While not incorrect grammatically, it does look like a mistake. You almost never see/hear there're and it's actually a little tricky to say. I'd assume it was read initially by OP as "Sometimes there Roidmude that are not despicable." That's what I think is the case. XD

[FirenOh]

13:43 Sometimes there're Roidmude that are not despicable.

What's wrong with this one?

I can fix the script for the 17:20 one though. Not surprised people missed that one. Thanks!

I imagine the issue is with "there're". While not incorrect grammatically, it does look like a mistake. You almost never see/hear there're and it's actually a little tricky to say. I'd assume it was read initially by OP as "Sometimes there Roidmude that are not despicable." That's what I think is the case. XD

Yeah that was my initial impression too. It's not technically wrong, just weird to read over during dialogue. Sort of like when you encounter two "had"s in a row as you read out loud; it's a bit disorientating. Sorry if I was being a little hasty, Takenoko.

[Lunagel]

It's just one of those things where the correct form looks incorrect. We've always done it like that though, so probably not going to change it

[Galada]

Wait a second. How did Chase know that they needed a sample of a improved Roidmude?

[Roz JC]

Wait a second. How did Chase know that they needed a sample of a improved Roidmude?

I could be wrong....but I think this is how he knew...

[Greenstalker]

Can someone tell me which Kamen Riders were speedsters? I remember there was at least two series which were focused on speed as their main focus before drive but can't remember which riders they were.