Kamen Rider Thouser
ZAIA Enterprise has set out to acquire Hiden Intelligence through a "5-Step Workplace Challenge"! The first challenge, the Flower Arrangement Challenge, had the human-HumaGear representative Rentaro Tachibana seemingly perform splendidly during the competition! However, Thouser ends up destroying and subsequently resetting the HumaGear who lost the challenge, the Flower-Arrangement Type HumaGear, Sakuyo Ichirin, much to Aruto's surprise! A bewildered Aruto mentions that "I was fooled by him", all the meanwhile a suspicious dark shadow slowly approaches Rentaro...
Episode Tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: More towards 'sweet' side. Despite losing in the first match, Sakuyo managed to make peace with Tachibana at the end of their competition.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Much like in previous episode, Thouser defeating Vulcan in Assault Wolf form without breaking a sweat.
- Curb-Stomp Cushion: ...but, Vulcan managed to land a few hits before Thouser casually shrugged off the damage.
- Easily Forgiven: After the vicious Curb-Stomp Battle Gai dealt him in the last episode, Aruto seems to take it in stride and speaks casually to Gai.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As morally ambiguous and determined to bring Aruto down as he is, Gai will not stand for any kind of fraud as he ruthlessly tears into Tachibana for his attempts at cheating.5
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Izu analyzes Gai and confirmed his age as 45 years old, she also looked at his resume.N.E. 1974: Born on 10 October.
N.E. 1991: 17 years old, Thousand Network …
N.E. 1992: 18 years old, Stanford Graduate School of Business … (MBA Program)
N.E. 1996: 22 years old, ZAIA Enterprise AI Team.
N.E. 2007: Moved to ZAIA Enterprise Japan. As the Project Manager, participated in the … project which involves a number of technology companies, including Hiden Intelligence.
N.E. 2009: Assigned as the President. Currently gathering attention from the world as “charismatic president” … - Nothing Is Scarier: Isamu interrogated Horobi about Raid, which led to Horobi suggesting the enemy might be closer than he think. The hooded figure, (later identified as Naki), is shown behind Isamu...but as he turned around, no one's there.
- Wham Episode: The first Raider appears, as we learn that even humans are now able to be turned into monsters. Fortunately, unlike a HumaGear-turned-Magia, the affected human isn't destroyed when their Raider form is defeated.
- The Worf Effect: No pun intended. Despite being the second most powerful Rider, Assault Wolf barely puts a dent in Thouser.
