Tear Jerker / Kamen Rider Revice

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"Why'd you have to go and leave? I didn't get to say anything yet, Daddy..."

To the naked eye, Kamen Rider Revice might seems to be a Reiwa-era season with badass fights and interesting gimmicks, but the awful things that the heroes have gone through and suffered will surely break your heart.

General

• Demons exist because Humans Are Flawed. Some are born from crimes or abuse, but most came from everyday grudges and common negativeness that people harbor instead of any evil inherent to human nature. That leaves space for tragic corruption of otherwise sweet, kind-hearted people that one wouldn't expect to have inner monsters waiting to pounce.

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Series

Episode 1: Family! Treaty! Whispering Demon at the Ready!

• Ikki had to give up on his dreams, so the rest of his family could live theirs. He claims it doesn't matter, but Vice's existence says otherwise.
• When Hiromi tried to transform and got Refused By The Call instead, his once-promising life went only downhill from there.
  • This led to Daiji's own Refusal of the Call and resentment for Ikki's recklessness with the Revice Driver, be it perceived as justified, which slowly ate away at their relationship.

Episode 3: A Hostage Situation! What's Your Decision, Brothers!?

• The kidnapper asks Ayaka to call her mother (who is at her youngest, Miharu's, photoshoot) in order to ask her for a ransom. The mother actually hangs up on her, not even bothering to find out why she's calling. Ayaka's resulting expression can tug at the heartstrings.

Episode 4: A Relationship Lovelorn! A Dangerous Demon is Born!

• As it turns out, Ayaka is the contract holder for the Kong Vistamp. When her mother won't pay any attention to her and diverts herself to Miharu, she not only creates the Kong Deadman, but forms the contract with it.
  Ayaka: This time, I'm going to make Mama suffer.
• The growing resentment Daiji holds towards Ikki reaches a boiling point, where the siblings start going off at each other after Ayaka's transformation and kidnapping of Sakura:
  Daiji: *slams Ikki into a wall* Is the bathhouse still more important now!?
  Ikki: I...
  Daiji: Stop playing the happy-go-lucky hero already!
  Ikki: I just wanted to help you-
  Daiji: AND WHO ASKED YOU!? There you go, making others your excuse again. You're not overprotective. You're just nosy!
  Ikki: Daiji...
  Daiji: You act like you get people, but you don't!
  Ikki: Okay... you transform and fight then! I don't get what's eating you, but it's not my fault you can't transform!

Episode 7: Thieving!? Skateboarding!? Kagero's My Calling!

• Kagero explains that he exists only because Daiji wished that Ikki wouldn't exist. To say that Daiji is horrified would be an understatement.

Episode 8: A Family Vacation, of Relaxation and Devastation?

• The shocked and heartbroken expressions of the Igarashi family at the reveal of Daiji (Kagero) being Evil. Even worse is Genta and Yukimi having to watch one of their sons try to murder the other.
  • The usually bubbly, harmless Genta tackles Kagero to stop him from hurting Ikki while screaming for who he thinks is his son to answer him.
  • Sakura goes right for Aguilera, but all her attacks are in vain and she gets slapped away easily.
  • Ikki is so stunned that he lets himself be batted around by Kagero for a while. Only when his remaining family also gets kicked and Vice keeps screaming in his head does he get up and fight.
    • Even Aguilera is baffled and perhaps a little saddened by the extent of Kagero's hatred for Ikki, and that's after she herself tried to poison Ikki a couple of hours earlier.

Episode 9: Kagero Rampages! The Fall of the Igarashi Brothers...!?

• Regardless of whether Daiji or Kagero is in control, Wakabayashi orders Ikki to eliminate him before his identity is exposed to the public. This naturally further disturbs an already uneasy Ikki.
  • Additionally, while George gives Ikki the Kamikiri Vistamp, Hiromi enters the room and declares he'll be the one to eliminate him because, unlike Ikki, he can do it without issue.
• With additional security footage of Kagero giving the three scam artists the Brachio Vistamp, Wakabayashi has declared him as an enemy and doubles down on his elimination order. When George comes to Happy Spa to tell Ikki, Sakura enters the room pissed that FENIX isn't making any effort to save one of their own.
  Sakura: Wasn't he your ally? At least try to save him!
  • She then goes after Ikki to do the same, accusing him of not being the nosy self that he's known to be.
• During their second fight, Kagero reveals to Ikki that Daiji's jealousy and hatred for the latter gave birth to him, accusing him of hogging the spotlight as well as robbing Daiji of a future and his dream to be a Kamen Rider. Ikki does not take any of it well.

Episode 10: Eldest and Youngest, Believe in Your Kindness.

• Kagero gets in another Kick the Dog by first goading Ikki into using a Rider kick against him in their fight, then pretending to be Daiji pleading for mercy for a moment to make Ikki feel like if he was abusing his brother.
• Sakura questions Hiromi as to whether FENIX and the Kamen Riders are truly trying to do the right thing. When he says they are, she grills into him saying that their goals are coming at the cost of Daiji's life and Ikki's being thrown into chaos.
  • When Ikki speaks up saying he became a Kamen Rider to help people and protect families, Sakura goes after him next, questioning what's the point of doing so when his own family suffers as a result.
  • This exchange during the After Action Patch Up:
    Vice: *trying to make Ikki feel better* Pain, pain, fly away!
    Ikki: *numb, but appreciating the effort* Vice... that's not where it hurts.
• With some prodding from Vice, Ikki realizes he's been a terrible older brother to Daiji. While he says he does, he never truthfully placed any of his faith in him, and only focused on himself.
• Sakura's inability to directly fight Deadmans or aid in saving Daiji continues to chip at her composure and push her into the cult's manipulations, as noted by Aguilera.

Episode 11: Invincible Sakura, Her Reasons for Fighting Are...?

• The contract holder for the Planarian Vistamp is Seiko Omori, Sakura's karate instructor, who desperately needs money for her son Ryo's surgery, and is being manipulated by the Deadmans, using Ryo as a means to get her to do what they want. Following the incident at the bank, Ikki, Daiji, and Yukimi all agree she should just stay home and not get involved despite her pleas to help, believing her to be too naïve and the matter not being her responsibility. Hearing this, she runs off to her room in tears.

Episode 12: The Weakest is also the Strongest!? Invincible Jeanne!

• After the first battle's conclusion, Daiji starts berating Sakura and demands her belt, blaming her for Ikki getting hurt and allowing more people to get hurt as a result of her inability to transform.
  • Ikki tries to mediate their struggle, but because he thinks that Daiji has a point to an extent, Sakura doesn't want to listen to him.
• Yukimi is worried about Sakura, because she understands her daughter only pretends to be tough.
• While alone in the dojo, Sakura tries once more to transform, to no avail. As she reflects on what Ikki, Daiji, and Aguilera have said to her, she breaks down in tears as her tough facade shatters before her.

Episode 14: The Man in Command...is a Deadman!?

• Hiromi's reaction to having the truth dropped on him. Wakabayashi is an impostor, the Chameleon Deadman, who killed the real commander right after Ikki transformed for the first time and has been impersonating him ever since. He doesn't even deign to properly react to Hiromi's screaming, crying or begging for answers.
  • This confirms what has been revealed a few episodes before: despite the fact Hiromi keeps a serious and calm appearance, but inside he's extremely emotional. And with this episode all his bottled up emotions come exploding out to the surface.
• The revelation that Aguilera was conditioned from childhood to be Giff's bride and that, until this episode, she wasn't aware that meant sacrificing herself to him. Even if she is evil, it's hard not to pity her on some level because of this.

Episode 15: Ruination! Confrontation! Ending the Deadmans' Reign!

• After the emotional devastation of the previous episode's events seem to have taken a toll on Hiromi, as he spends the greater majority of the episode in a state of cold fury, unable to show any emotion other than quiet anger.
• Julio aggressively protests against Olteca's plans to sacrifice Aguilera, just to get his lights knocked out the first time around and be pushed to play his role in the second time.
  • He protests even when Aguilera accepts her role. Whatever kind of relation the two have must extend beyond the time the Deadmans started organizing.
• Aguilera's anguished scream when the Deadmans base is destroyed and presumably so is Giff.

Episode 16: To Protect the Good Times...the Era of Igarashi Arrives!

• Aguilera hysterically bawling all while Olteca coldly admits she's just their puppet and throws her under the bus. It really makes you feel that she's a victim of the Deadmans too and being raised by them more than anything else.

Episode 17: A Betrayal's Depths, How a True Buddy Accepts.

• Julio's backstory reveals just how he became a Deadmans executive to begin with. Before, he was a geeky high school student named Go Tamaki who liked to play trading card games with his friend Yosuke Okuda, and was bullied as a result. One day, however, Yosuke is pressured by delinquents into tearing up Go's prized trading card, causing the young man to flee in grief. With no one else to turn to, he approaches the Deadmans, whereupon Aguilera takes a liking to him - and wins the young man's loyalty in the process.
  • Yosuke himself is desperate to see Go saved, so when he sees Olteca attacking Julio he desperately tries to rush to save him, screaming his name and having to be restrained before he could endanger himself.
    Julio: Yosuke... I don't remember anyone by that name.

Episode 18: A Buddy's Vice, The Miracle of Fire and Ice.

• Yosuke finally gets the chance to apologize to and reconcile with Go, only for Olteca to crash the meeting and turn him into a Gifftarian. Before his body shatters, he tells Go/Julio to smile one last time.
  • It's further revealed that back then, Yosuke tried to make it up to Go by promising that he would see him off when he moved, only to seemingly betray him yet again by standing him up. Turns out Yosuke was accosted by and beaten up by the bullies while on his way to Go.
    • Julio then recalls witnessing this while passing by in a car, yet turning a blind eye to it. This causes him to realize that he wasn't any better; as he hates traitors above all else, by this logic he hates himself the most.
• Go/Julio goes into a mindless rampage after Yosuke's death. It's little to no different from Primitive Dragon in the previous series, however this is of the antagonistic side.
  • Once he is defeated and freed from his demon, Go is in such a pitiful state that when Olteca is about to try to kill him he does absolutely nothing, he simply accepts his fate. At least until Aguilera comes to save him.
  • How pitiful is his state? When Aguilera tries to console him and get him to smile, he is reminded of Yosuke telling him to smile, which causes him to weep uncontrollably.
• As Revice and Julio's Finishing Moves clash, an on-fire Revi assures Vice that he'll be fine. This reminds Julio of his friendship with Yosuke, causing him to falter.

Episode 19: Demons' Grave Warning, Hiromi's Deadly Encircling!?

• Sakura approaches Aguilera and tries to get her to let Ikki void her contract with her demon, only for Aguilera to angrily refuse and storm off after the two have another fight, insisting that she's loyal to Giff and no one else. It really shows that even though she's broken away from them, Aguilera is still clouded by the Deadmans' conditioning.

Episode 20: Unfeeling And Fleeting, The Price Of Transforming.

• Just as it looks like Chigusa and Hiromi are going to reach some form of understanding, Olteca abruptly stamps Chigusa to turn her into a Gifftarian, with Chigusa spending her last moments looking shocked and betrayed before being devoured from the inside out.
• It is implied (again) that Hiromi will die in the next episode, and given the previews it could be truly the last we'll see of the original Kamen Rider Demons.

Episode 21: As My Life Turns To Dust, My Emotions I Entrust.

• Hiromi's (supposed) death. The reactions of the Igarashi siblings and Vice just hammer the point home.
  • Vice is sobbing in a broken heap on the table muttering Hiromi's nickname during the After-Action Patch-Up, implying what goes on inside Ikki's mind, who has Dull Eyes of Unhappiness just like Daiji and Sakura.

Episode 22: Slam-Banging Action... An Attack on Kūki Kaidan!?

• Kagero appears to Daiji in a mirror to mock him for being pathetic and useless.
  • One observation to be made is that Kagero doesn't smirk until Daiji leaves. It's possible that he too feels somewhat pathetic and useless.
• Aguilera mopes over Sakura's verbal and physical beating from before. Tamaki then returns with ice cream, only to be met with Aguilera firing him, remarking that he's useless now that he can no longer transform.
• When Tamaki finds Sakura, he is just a step away from Inelegant Blubbering and the two ice creams he got for himself and Aguilera earlier have completely melted all over his hands. This even causes Sakura and her two classmates a bit of a Jump Scare. Then he makes it worse by trying to wipe his nose, only to smear the cream all over the lower half of his face. He was actually so much of a wreck that she took him home.

Episode 23: Vice's Role Reversal... Is This Truly a Betrayal!?

• Even though Tamaki has been informed of how Aguilera may have been harsh in ditching him for his own good, you can't help but feel pity for the guy as he sounds on the verge of tears:
  Tamaki: But she didn't even bother looking me in the eye...
  • From Aguilera's perspective, it's possible that she would have been the one crying if she tried to dismiss him in a more formal manner.

Episode 25: Revival! Vail!? The Igarashi Family's Dark Tale.

• Ikki's memories: the Igarashi Bathhouse is burning, his mother is unconscious, his father being the one behind it, and then he learns that this is his father's real self, a demon.
  • It's heartbreaking from Genta's perspective as well; the peaceful life he worked hard to finally get to live was literally going up in flames around him, he's possessed by a demon seeking to destroy everything he loved, and all he can do is tell Ikki to run.
• While Buu-san's job being something he can't talk about is often Played for Laughs, this time it implies he has always been caring for the Igarashi family's secret, and that's why he couldn't talk about it: it was for their own good.
• The Igarashi siblings' reactions to George's bombshell about them being Human Demon Hybrids. Sakura in particular looks like she's about to completely break down.

Episode 26: Dueling! Departing!? The Ending of Darkness and Light.

• Daiji realizes Kagero has grown weaker and starts holding back. He consciously doesn't want Kagero to be erased, and wish that they could have worked together like Ikki and Vice, but unfortunately his demon doesn't seem to share the sentiment.
  • Kagero's last moments has him struggling to crawl to Daiji, setting up the new transformation, and asking him to be a little more ruthless, before exploding into black feathers that envelop Daiji and turn white to prepare him for his new form.
    Kagero: Someone's grown strong.
    Daiji: Kagero... Thank you.
    Kagero: Idiot. What kind of moron thanks their demon? (places Holy Wing Vistamp in Daiji's Two SiDriver) This is yours to use. See you... Daiji...
  • It's implied that his scream during his transformation to Holy Live is him mourning Kagero's death.
• Sakura and Aguilera having quite the argument (and fight) because Aguilera doesn't understand how she has keeps becoming weaker while Sakura keeps growing stronger.
  • Sakura telling her she needs to find her purpose, fight for herself, and stop pretending she can't see her purpose.

Episode 27: Stop It! The Ramming Runaway's Rumbling Rampage.

• Shockingly enough, Olteca gets one when we learn he was abused as a child by his father, who saw Olteca's displays of intelligence as him trying to make a fool of his father and labeled him a freak. It's hinted that this is what led him to develop such a sociopathic personality as an adult.
• Vice's panic when Ikki doesn't respond after the initial rampage.
  • While chained, Vice speaks to Ikki of how scared he is that Ikki might disappear if this keeps happening.
  • Just before he rampages again he tells Ikki of how scared he is of what is about to happen, and Ikki can only tell him to trust in him.

Episode 28: Gale and Thunder Beyond Fear! The Time to Merge is Here!

• Aguliera pleadingly asks Giff if they were destined to be together. A hand emerges from the coffin and gingerly touches her cheek before slapping her to the ground, confirming that she is nothing to him if she cannot serve her purpose.
• When Olteca loses to Revice, the coffin grabs him and slowly pulls him towards it. What makes this heartwrenching is the look of despair on his face, followed by his Last Words. Although he was a heartless bastard in every sense, one can't help but feel bad for him.
• After the battle, Aguliera, now broken from everything up to this point, silently walks off, ignoring Tamaki's tearful pleas to smile. When Sakura calls out to her, she stops for a brief moment, then continues on like her words didn't register to her. It's safe to say that she has hit the Despair Event Horizon.
• George and Masumi's reunion is far from pleasant, as George asks his father why he didn't say he was alive. Masumi apologizes for that, then pleads for his assistance, stating that the world is doomed if Giff is left unchecked. George just turns around and walks off, with Masumi silently hoping that he doesn't end up like him.

Episode 31: Guided by an Illusion, the Consequence of Aspiration.

• The reason why Ikki stopped playing soccer is revealed; after promising Ziko he would become a pro soccer player to make up for causing the latter's Career-Ending Injury, he threw himself into practice to distract himself from his guilt; however, the burden on him became too big to the point where he stopped playing.
  • Flashback!Ikki pounding the floor in frustration at his inability to improve, while present-day Ikki, Vice and a recovering Ziko quietly watches him break down.
    Vice: It was pretty hard watching you, at the time. Not gonna lie.
  • To add salt to the wound, due to the cost of his contract with Vice, Ikki completely forgot his promise with Ziko, much to the latter's anger. Subaru had to resort to the power of the Rafflesia Deadman just to get him to remember, and he breaks down upon realising he forgot something so important.
• While Subaru was able to get Ikki and Ziko to make up with each other, he became a contract holder for the Rafflesia Deadman in the process, and willingly turned himself in to Fenix. Considering the culture of Japan's entertainment industry, he's effectively sunk his own voice-acting career by doing so.
• At the end of the episode, Vice reveals that every time Ikki transforms, he's erasing his memories, and if he kept fighting, he would eventually forget everything, even his own family.

Episode 32: A Lost Place to Reside, the Dethroned Queen's Pride.

• There's a hint that Aguilera has been crying by herself at some point before Tamaki came after her on the rooftops.

Episode 37: No Hesitation! The Risky Demon Recapture Mission!

• Akemi is fatally wounded while Revice is fighting the Hell Gifftarian. They were going to try something to help her but couldn't, and Daiji gets to see her die while Sakura could do nothing, as she had been beaten by the Hell Gifftarian. And had Hiromi not come in, it's possible Daiji would have given his brother a beatdown to make things between them even more strained.

Episode 38: Father and Son Synthesize! The Ultimate Revice!

• Daiji has surely lost it, as he doesn't even emote when he sees Hiromi. The guy must be a broken mess inside.
• While George is upset they apparently can't make the Giffard Rex Vistamp anymore, it is evident he's a trembling mess because Akemi died.
• George wanting to not be involved in extracting Giff cells from Genta's heart, angry that he believes his father is about to repeat his sins again. But he wasn't being honest with Masumi, all because of everything he went through once his father left the family behind.
• Fearing he might not survive, Genta makes a video message to his family, in case things don't go as planned. Thankfully, it was never used.

Episode 39: Hope and Despair, A Troubling Sibling Affair.

• The cost of Ikki's contract with Vice returns once more. This time, he's forgotten the hot springs trip from Episode 8, and according to Vice, the rate at which he's forgetting his memories has been increasing.
• Kimiko's death at the hands of a Hell Gifftarian. Even though they weren't a real family, Hikaru very much viewed her as his own mother and refused to leave her behind.
  • What makes this moment worse is the fact that Tasuke willingly left her to die in favor of prioritizing the refugees. Judging the look of the base when Hikaru confronts him, he was just as affected.
  • After a talk with Sakura about how he saw his fake family as a real family, he breaks down in tears. Sakura and Ikki just looks at him, not sure on what to do, but Vice goes, hugs Hikaru from behind for the surprise of the Igarashi siblings and cries as well.
  • Poor Tamaki is affected as well and it shows. Hana reminds him that they too caused a lot of pain in the past and that they need to help others to redeem themselves and prevent more people from suffering.
  • Daiji furiously punches the screen after witnessing Kimiko's death.
• The amount of trauma and loss Daiji has gone through has culminated in him fully falling into Akaishi's hands and becoming the top enforcer for the new demon-led regime he plans to install. Or rather, he's become the very thing he fought against.
• Daiji being booed and yelled at by the refugees. He genuinely wants to do right, even if he's going about it the wrong way, and he doesn't understand why they won't listen. When a can is thrown at his head, he goes off the deep end and sics the Giff Juniors under his command on them.
• He goes on to battle both Ikki and Sakura, who clearly don't want to have to fight their brother. Sakura only intervenes in the fight when Daiji blasts Hana away, and even then Ikki holds her back and tries to make one more attempt to reach out to Daiji.
• When he's forced out of his transformation, Sakura and Ikki run towards Daiji, who suddenly pulls out a loaded gun on the both of them.

Episode 40: Family or the World... Brothers' Quarrel of the Soul!

• Tasuke declares Daiji as Weekend's enemy and must be defeated. Ikki and Sakura don't take this declaration well:
  • Ikki asks for time to mull over it, only for Vice to yell at him that they couldn't fight family, and nearly start a fistfight when Tasuke tells them to discard their feelings.
  • Sakura runs off and curls up under a bridge, even snapping at a concerned Hana to leave her alone when she comes over to check on her.
• The fact that Daiji still resents Ikki even after all they've been through is saddening.
  Daiji: If only you didn't exist...!
• Tasuke takes the bullet for Hikaru and dies at the hands of Akaishi. It is only as he dies that Hikaru realises his fake father isn't as heartless as he seems.
  • As Tasuke falls to the ground, a photo of his real family falls out of his pocket, and he reveals to Akaishi that they were killed by the Deadmans' activities. He admits that he does not feel much grief for his family anymore, for he, too, has come to view Hikaru as a real son.
  • Even Akaishi is moved by this and asks Tasuke if he truly loved Hikaru, only to receive no response as he had breathed his last. He is visibly saddened and places Tasuke's family photo on his chest as a sign of respect.
• Akaishi being familiar with Daiji's loneliness, specially with him remembering how he lived alone for thousands of years without a single soul empathizing with him.
  • It's harsher in hindsight, because it means Akaishi could have been a different man if people actually empathized with him.

Episode 43: The End of Eternity, Regret's Destiny.

• Just as it seems Masumi and George are about to reconcile, Masumi confesses that he transferred his own inner demon into George as a child. The latter storms out, understandably feeling betrayed.

Episode 44: Giving My All For the Mission, the Path of My Decision.

• Just as George decides to pop in and visit Masumi, he finds that he is too late as he had passed away.
  George: Daddy...?

Episode 47: Karizaki's Rebellion, the Price of Transformation.

• As Genta and Yukimi arrive home, Ikki welcomes them and mistakes them for a pair of bathhouse customers. The silence that immediately follows as everyone realizes what's going on, including Daiji and Sakura who finally learn about Ikki's amnesia, is deafening.
  • At this point Vice is extremely shocked: he fought alone because he believed that if Ikki didn't transform then his memory wouldn't be lost, but he still lost more of his memory. Next thing Vice was pleading Ikki to not transform and leaves his driver in the hands of Daiji and Sakura.
  • Unlike many cases of fictional amnesia, there's been efforts to restock or restore Ikki's memory. In a previous episode, Ikki forgets he lives in a bathhouse; this episode, he invites his parents in with a rehearsed line. It's very clear that the Igarashis are doing their best to fill in the gaps, but that just means other things (and perhaps even the new memories) will be lost to the Driver.
• The following scene shows Genta trying to be strong for his son, while Yukimi starts sobbing at the realization her son's condition has only worsened, even as Genta and Lovekov try to comfort her.
• The Igarashi siblings try to process this as well, with Sakura crying. Daiji himself feels guilty, thinking that if he had the will to use the Revice Driver in the first place, Ikki wouldn't lose his memories.
• When Daiji offers the Revice Driver to George and begs him to let his family have a peaceful life, the word "family" alone causes George to be in stunned silence, trembling, as if remembering that he now has no one.

Episode 48: Proof of Tenacity! This is... Japan's No. 1 Busybody!

• After Daiji and Sakura decides to support Ikki's desire to stop George, Vice goes to the back room to tell Genta and Yukimi to come and say something, but the moment he sees them trying to come to terms that Ikki is going to lose all his memories, the demon stops mid-sentence.
  • In the night before the challenge, Vice is sulking all alone in the lockers room.
• The text log chat that appears behind Ikki and Vice as they transform contains only a single message, Vice sincerely apologizing for what he's inadvertently done to Ikki. And at the same time, Sakura holds Daiji's hand, knowing what will inevitably happen.
• During the confrontation with George, Ikki shouts that he is sacrificing his own memories of his family to make George lose his hatred towards Masumi. The moment he says this, George actually falters for a second, while Vice is stunned into silence.
• After Revice deals the finishing blow, Hiromi shows George that Masumi had preserved the drawings he made as a kid, which were the origins of the Vistamps, as proof that Masumi really did care about him. This causes George to finally break down and cry, admitting that he misses his dad.
• Following the battle with George, there's a moment where Daiji and Sakura speak to Ikki. After a moment, Ikki proceeds to turn to Vice and asks who they are. The last of the memories of the Igarashi family are now gone.
  • Upon realizing what has happened, Sakura breaks down into tears.

Episode 49: At Battle's Conclusion... All That Remains Is the Demon.

• The episode begins on a somber note, with Vice going through all of the Igarashi family photos, each and every one of them with an empty spot where Ikki would be.
• Without any memory of the Igarashi family, Ikki has to pretend that he still remembers them while the bathhouse is operating during the day. However, when he's alone that night, he laments that this is not working for him and ends up leaving the next morning.
• Vice's rampage comes off because of why it has to happen. As George points out, Vice and Ikki's contract is still active because Ikki hasn't forgotten his entire family, which includes Vice. By staging a rampage, Vice is attempting to forcefully terminate their contract in an effort to restore his memories, while also pretending that everything they went through was a lie in order to get Ikki to not hold back in their fight. However, as Tamaki realizes, this will come at the cost of Vice's own existence.
  • This wounds up turning Ikki's Heartwarming remark to Vice that he's family early in the episode into one hell of a Tearjerker by the end of it.

Final Episode: Family to the End, Until the Day We Meet Again.

• Their final farewell has Ikki struggling not to cry and promising to Vice that they will meet again and that he will never forget him, that even if that happens he will find a way to remember him. This scene alone is enough to catch everyone else who watched their battle and farewell to silently cry, although you can see some are really struggling to absorb it.
  • Before Vice starts fading away, he suggests that he and Ikki fight with Barid Rex and Volcano, the two Vistamps created and mastered from the two's growing bond with each other.
• Vice's last words to Ikki are him thanking him.

Movies and Spinoffs

Kamen Rider Revice: The Mystery

Part 4

• Hiromi's reaction upon learning that Suzu was the true culprit. This is made even worse with Suzu dropping the act and calling him a nuisance while he's in earshot.

Part 5

• Kaido's (apparent) death after he saved Suzu and let her take his sample.
• Suzu's flashback, of her witnessing her fiancé's last moments.
  • Suzu was so heartbroken by the end of this all that she would rather have died. Thankfully Japan's #1 Busybody wouldn't let her.
• While it is primarily Played for Laughs, Hiromi is visibly crying and heartbroken, but trying to keep a tough front. At least, until they bluntly tell him he had been rejected and then he just cries his heart out.

DEAR GAGA

Page 1

• Hiromi's bullied childhood is shown on-screen with a few other kids shoving him into mud, and he's shown to have lied about it to his parents by claiming he was chased by a dog every time it happened.
• Hiromi's days at Fenix and his battles as Kamen Rider Demons have clearly broken him, to the point where he snaps at his mother to throw his old uniform away and resorted to Faking Amnesia to avoid having to go back to Fenix again, a far cry from the idealistic man he was at the beginning of the series.
  • Hiromi has some hallucinations of Wakabayashi reminding him that he is faking amnesia and that he needs to remember why he wanted to become a hero. There's no freakout from Hiromi for obvious reasons.
• Hiromi's mother collapses at the end of the episode, presumably due to an illness she didn't have the courage to tell anyone about.

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• Hiromi learns that his mother is in terminal condition and doesn't have long to live. While he takes it better than expected, it is clear he feels hurt that she kept such a serious condition from him.
• The end of the episode the Kadota house is emptied and he is seen gathering his belongings in front of the shrine for his father and his mother, who recently passed away, only to find a letter she wrote to him hidden within his Fenix Tribe coat. While reading he starts sobbing and breaks down in tears.
  "Dear Hiromi,
  I’m sorry for keeping my illness a secret from you. I didn’t want to worry you, since you had the responsibility to protect the world at Fenix on your shoulders. Though I suppose I didn’t need to worry about that in the end. The happiest thing in my life was to see you being born and growing up to be kind, reliable, and strong, just as your father was. A lot of things might get hard or tough for you, but I know that you’ll be able to overcome them all. Because to me, you’re the greatest hero there ever was. I’ll always watch over you, no matter where you may be. I’m sure your father is doing the same. Thank you for bringing me so much joy. Stay safe, and continue your work as the upbeat hero.
  Love,
  Mom"

Birth of Chimera

• Nozomu losing his entire family and best friend in just one afternoon.

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