Chris

Episode 73: Shard 32 - Zi-O 43/44

January 19th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 12 mins

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Our hosts rediscover joy and begin theorycrafting about what the end of a series that wrapped half a year ago can hold.

Episode 72: Cast 025 - Kiva 19-20

January 12th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 23 mins

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This week is a breakthrough for all three hosts as their feelings on Kiva crystallize. Hint: by the end of the episode, they're all feeling the urge to double up on Kiva with next week's show!

Episode 71: Shard 31 - Zi-O 41/42

January 5th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 8 mins

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It all ends here! Or starts ending here, anyway, as our hosts enter the final arc of the series and a new year all in one fell swoop.

Episode 70: Shard 30 - Zi-O 39/40

December 29th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 15 mins

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Guys, gals, and non-binary pals, allow me to introduce the nightmare form to end all nightmare forms: they've finally hit Grand Zi-O.

Also Den-O came along for the ride.

Episode 68: Cast 024 - Kiva 17-18

December 15th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 24 mins

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This week, back to full strength, our hosts return to the world of Kiva, where they're more positive than usual.

Which isn't saying much when the episode involves phrases like "these characters are too good for Kamen Rider Kiva".

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Episode 67: Shard 29 - Zi-O 37/38

December 7th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 20 mins

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The dread Kamen Rider Koyō has kidnapped Garrett, leaving the remaining hosts to venture into the world of Kamen Rider Kabuto without any protection save that of invoking Gackt.

Episode 66: Cast 023 - Kiva 15-16

November 30th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 18 mins

Nobody:

Literally nobody:

Kiva: WHOOOOOO WANTS AMNEEEEEEEESIAAAAAAAAAAA (and dubious little play)

Episode 64: Cast 022 - Kiva 13-14

November 18th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 28 mins

This time around, our hosts decide slow and steady wins the race and pace back to two episodes no matter which series (for now...), and what luck! They come out of this arc pretty positive on the events even if the plot strikes them as incredibly transparent.

Episode 63: Shard 28 - Zi-O 35/36

November 10th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 26 mins

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The show begins to eat itself as our hosts visit Zi-o visiting Kiva which they're in the middle of due to Decade running into Kiva which is wild because Decade is in Zi-o and oh dear lord I've gone cross-eyed.

Episode 62: Shard 27 - Zi-O 33/34

November 2nd, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 5 mins

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Down one host, our cast stumble blindly into a land of oni, parties, and diapers - we're one radish pun away from DBZ this week in Zi-O town!

Episode 61: Shard 26 - Zi-O 31/32

October 29th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 25 mins

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This week our hosts re-meet Kamen Rider Agito, and are briefly treated to Tsukiyomi having a plot arc of her own while the villains realize that if power won't defeat the heroes, maybe raw numbers will...

Episode 60: Cast 021 - Kiva 11-12

October 19th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  56 mins 7 secs

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This week in Kiva: rock stars.

I swear I've heard the gothic vampire turns stage presence tale somewhere before...

Episode 59: Cast 020 - Kiva 09-10

October 12th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  59 mins 13 secs

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On a slightly briefer journey into darkness than usual, we cover the tragic tale of the luthier (yes that's a real word!) Ōmura, a Fangire with feelings. Watch our hosts begin to turn around on this show!

Episode 58: Shard 25 - Zi-O 29/30

October 5th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 14 mins

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Our hosts shake off the rust and return to the world of Kamen Rider Blade... which neither of them have seen all of, meaning the major themes of this arc leave them lost until an antagonist spells it out near the end. Plus: so many blades!

Episode 57: Shard 24 - Zi-O 27/28

September 28th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 6 mins

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For the final(?) summer vacation episode, Chris and Editor Fletch pick back up where we left off in Zi-O (hint: baby murder and everyone thinking major cast are dead), and for those who think the podcast needs more tangents, good news! There's an entire bonus segment for you after the tokusatsu show where your humble hosts go wild with Sailor Moon and mild Steven Universe film discussion.

Episode 54: Cast 019 - Kiva 05-08

September 7th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 59 mins

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Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and that's how the boys feel as they dig deeper into this gothic Rider's series, learning terrible facts from wikis and discovering maybe the series isn't about friends, you guys.

It's about whether or not that stew was made from people or dog.