I'm going to miss Poppy as the NPC character for Kamen Rider Chronicle. I like Asuna/Poppy well enough, but she was SO perfect for the role of the cheerful guide that teaches you how to play the game and assigns players their next tasks. I wonder if Emu rewriting her memory will have dire consequences for the idiots still playing KR Chronicle by depriving them of information on how to advance.
About the "Poppy smiling clears the game" thing - It was a little bit of a cop-out, but I could have sworn that was brought up before.
Looks like Poppy's driver flew off into the river. That's classic Rider-shorthand for "this character/item/plot point will return". That's good, because Poppy as a Rider was amazing. I'm sure if we do get her back she won't be nearly as impressive as she was the past few episode because that sort of nerfing always seems to happen, but that's fine.
Even though it happened off-screen, I liked that we found out that Nico and Taiga took out Salty and Alhambra. As much as I'd like to see Rider Nico in action, it advanced that part of the plot without making us watch yet another fight using those monsters. Just like Kyouryuuger, I appreciate a good in-story explanation for why the same monsters get reused over and over (rather than the real world reason: to save on costs), but at some point you have to let them go.
Parado being so frustrated that Emu could pin him down and flat-out ignore him rather than fight him was hilarious. No wonder he snapped at the end and revealed the truth.
Kudos to the writers with that reveal. The clues (particularly in Episode 19) make perfect sense in hindsight, but I admit I was successfully distracted by the characters' incorrect theories that the Emu/M split personalities were how his version of Game Syndrome manifested, and he either wouldn't produce a Bugster or his Bugster hadn't yet propagated. Ironically, Hiiro even theorized the correct answer in the middle of that episode - that Emu was possessed by the Bugster - but it was pushed aside in the midst of healing that episode's patient and Taddle Fantasy's debut. Like I think someone else pointed out, there was even a big clue in the opening sequence since episode two - that panning shot from Emu to Parado, like they're standing back-to-back or a reverse mirror. Kind of like Den-O,
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Hey, did Parado steal Meteor's catchphrase in the preview for next episode?