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Recap / Kamen Rider Zero One Ep 27 I Will Not Give Up These Lives

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A real fire has been started after a Raider sabotaged the 4th round of Hiden Intelligence and ZAIA Enterprise's "5-Round Workplace Showdown!" Therefore, a rescue operation to save Vice President Fukuzoe, Senior Managing Director Yamashita, and their HumaGear Secretary Shester, between humans and HumaGear is now currently underway! The Firefighter-Type HumaGear 119 Nosuke, after being taught the importance of never giving up on people's lives by fire commander Homura, finds the most likely rescue route to be blocked by rubble! Meanwhile, Aruto goes after the Raider who was the one responsible for this attack!


  • Battle Amongst the Flames: When Jin transforms, the flames created from his henshin sequence set the entire warehouse on fire, creating a dramatically appropriate battlefield for his fight with Thouser.
  • Combat Breakdown: After Jin makes it clear that he's not going to fall for Thouser's power-stealing lance trick, the fight between him and Gai devolves into a labored fistfight that ends with barehanded finishing moves.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Of the myriad of Progrise Keys that Gai carries with him, only the Sting Scorpion one is dropped by him during his fight with Jin.
  • Evasive Fight-Thread Episode: Gai and Jin's battle ends with neither of them the worse for wear, not even being scratched after being hit by the other's Finishing Move. The battle ends solely because Gai drops the Sting Scorpion Progrise Key, which is all Jin really wanted in the first place.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: 119nosuke sacrificed himself to hold off the large debris long enough for Homura to rescue Fukuzoe and his co-workers.
  • Ironic Echo: When Yua asks why would Aruto save 119nosuke's remains, Aruto tells her that a good president saves all his employees. Later on, when Thouser retrieves a ZAIASPEC that would have been evidence for arresting his employee of sabotage, he tells Aruto that a good president saves his company. The latter fact in particular not only made Fuwa even itchier to arrest Gai, but also infuriates Aruto even more.
    Fuwa: Trying to destroy the evidence, huh? Finally showing your true colors!
    [...]
    Aruto: Is this really how a CEO should act?
  • Logical Weakness: Having seen how Gai fights, Jin knows that Thouser can only copy a key's abilities by hitting a Rider's belt with his lance, so blocking it is enough to keep Burning Falcon's secrets safe.
  • No-Sell: Since high defense is Thouser's specialty, Jin's flames don't effect him nearly as much as they did Fuwa's Assault Wolf form.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: After voicing her opinion, Yua suddenly acted subservient and docile towards Gai after him expressing his dissatisfaction of her opinion.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: Literally in this case, as despite 119nosuke burning up and Zaia's firefighter being the one to save the last group he refuses to accept credit for it since it was only 119nosuke's sacrifice that allowed for it. Respect for his sacrifice aside given that the contest is to prove whether Humagear's are superior to people using Zaiaspecs, the fact that the Captain couldn't find a solution with the specs while 119nosuke was able to sacrifice himself to make a path proved that even though the Humagear was destroyed it was still the more viable solution there. Gai isn't happy, but after one of his workers is caught as the Raider attacking the site he's forced to let Hiden have the win making it a tie.
  • The Reveal: Daiki Kyogoku admitting that he stole his RaidRiser and Scouting Panda Progrise Key from ZAIA Enterprise itself has Gai confirm that the RaidRisers were indeed produced by ZAIA as a weapon for civilians' use.

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