Heroes At Work
Summary
Look down, look down; you'll always be a slave.
Look down, look down; you're standing in your grave.
Look down, look down; you're standing in your grave.
Haruka: Jiro Momotani has two personalities.
But the two of them seem to fight with each other, sometimes combining...
While moving forward, all the while.
But the two of them seem to fight with each other, sometimes combining...
While moving forward, all the while.
Tsuyoshi is left in charge of a store whose performance is quickly deteriorating, which leads to him getting fired shortly after when there is no improvement. Unable to tell Miho, Tsuyoshi takes on a bunch of part-time jobs to make ends meet. The strain of these jobs leaves him unable to fight, allowing Dai-Ki to escape. Taro hears his woes, but he gets the wrong idea...
Tropes
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The preview for the next episode mentions that Kamen Rider Revice is ending.
- Call-Back: Shinichi really can't touch money, considering how a single coin burned him.
- Commonality Connection: After Tsuyoshi and his boss reconcile, Haruka wonders in the ending narration if they bonded because of their mutual experience turning into Hitotsu-Ki. Tsuyoshi takes a moment to break the fourth wall and protest.
- Contrived Coincidence: The Donbrothers all choose to work at a restaurant that not only happened to be the one that Tsuyoshi had to fix up, but also recently hired Tsubasa.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Taro at one point sings a couple of lines from the opening theme song.
- Flat "What": Jin lets out a bemused "What?" when Tsuyoshi approaches him about payment.
- Friendship Denial: Invoked by Dangerous Jiro, who muses that Jiro won't surpass Taro if his companions "assimilate" Jiro into their antics.
- Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: After being fired, Tsuyoshi tries to get paid for being a Donbrother only for Kaito to point out that heroism is volunteer work.
- Interactive Narrator: Tsuyoshi says that the viewers will have forgotten he was a Monster of the Week, arguing with Haruka's narration pointing out that fact.
- Locked Out of the Loop:
- Tsubasa, once again, despite the Contrived Coincidence that brings him to work in the same restaurant as the other Donbrothers. While they were using their powers to bring in customers he was busy running the kitchen alone, never the wiser about what was going on outside.
- Jiro was never informed of the situation that led to the Donbrothers taking up jobs.
- Mundane Utility: While the Donbrothers are no strangers to using their powers to help people in need, it's taken to even further heights in this episode when they use their powers to help revive a struggling restaurant, even to the point where Taro's Summon Backup Dancers help out with serving the food.
- Poor Communication Kills:
- Taro misunderstands Tsuyoshi's situation and assumes it had something to do with the latter's mother being in a dire state. As he overworks himself to raise funds for Tsuyoshi's so-called "mother", he spreads the story to the other Donbrothers without revealing who specifically, which causes them to overwork to support Taro's "friend's mother" as well. This story eventually comes back to Tsuyoshi himself, who also assumes it's someone else and pushes him to overwork even harder for that "friend", until eventually Taro realises and admits he misunderstood Tsuyoshi's woes.
- This goes in another direction for Jiro, who wasn't privy of the situation to the point of having to use his Don Doragoku Alter form to spy on them and deduce it. While he manages to find out about Taro's "friend", he ultimately comes to the Wrong Assumption that this was actually a team-building exercise and wants in on it, before Dangerous Jiro stops him.
- Status Quo Is God: In spite of being fired at the start of the episode, Tsuyoshi is reinstated into Pheasant Consultant at the end of the episode after his boss is shaken out of his Hitotsu-Ki status, and Tsuyoshi actually does rehabilitate the restaurant with the help of his fellow Donbrothers.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While Shinichi can certainly compose haiku well, his lack of job experience means that language schools are reluctant to hire him even with his talents. This leads him to peddle haiku in parks instead.
- Unconfessed Unemployment: Tsuyoshi's situation. He's fired and can't bring himself to tell his wife, so he desperately looks for other work.
