Recap / Kamen Rider Revice, Episode 12: The Weakest is also the Strongest!? Invincible Jeanne!

The Weakest is also the Strongest!? Invincible Jeanne!

Original Airdate: November 28, 2021
Written by: Hanta Kinoshita
Directed by: Teruaki Sugihara

Summary

"My name is Sakura Igarashi.
I'm a karateka. And a Kamen Rider!"

Despite her resolve, Sakura seems to be unable to transform like Daiji and Ikki. Daiji blames her for letting Ikki getting injured, but Ikki tries to get through to her. Unfortunately, she lashes out, trying to find her own solution to an unknown problem. With Aguilera stacking up the pressure against her, Sakura finds herself stuck on what to do. With Seiko on the rampage, it's only a matter of time before the city is destroyed. Will Sakura be able to find her own strength to transform?

Tropes

• Big Damn Heroes: Sakura arrives to aid the overwhelmed Fenix forces and her brothers.
• Big "SHUT UP!": George responds as such (in English) when Daiji suggests that it was him who gave Sakura the Libera Driver.
• Blasphemous Boast: Haitani eagerly proclaims his intention to become the new Giff, take Aguilera as his bride, and form a new Deadmans cult. Olteca laughs it off, Julio threatens to deck him, and Aguilera... simply flounces off complaining how bored she is without doing anything, even thought he just committed blasphemy.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Revi, Vice and Live seem to be about to be on the wrong side of one until Sakura arrives. She single-handedly turns the fight into one in their favour.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Haitani proclaims his intention to replace Giff in front of the Deadmen. They do nothing about it because it's just too ridiculous to be true.
• Dope Slap: Revi conks Vice on the head with a dull thunk! noise to cut the demon's threatics short.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Subverted slightly with Lovekov... who has absolutely no combat skill whatsoever, but also is Sakura's demon, who has more than enough for the both of them.
• Funny Foreground Event: Lovekov spends most of Kamen Rider Jeanne's debut fight either running from the Deadmans or getting beaten up by them since she can't fight herself.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted. Jeanne's entire style is about quick crushing blows and fast strikes, befitting the Rider form of a martial artist, and it's Kamen Rider Live who is the ranged specialist.
• Not Me This Time: Daiji admits he assumed George was the one who provided Sakura the Libera Driver. George immediately denies this, being heavily pissed off over it somehow ending up in her hands.
• Skewed Priorities: Played for Laughs. Encountering the huge horde of Deadmen led by the revived Planarian Deadman Phase 2, Hiromi holds back Daiji from joining the fight... just to have him listen to his long Heroism Motive Speech while the fight was still going on.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Sakura doesn't buy Aguilera's claims of happiness in the slightest and telling her so seems to shake up the Deadmen lady for a moment.
  Sakura: You don't look happy at all.
• Suddenly Shouting: While Karizaki has No Indoor Voice, his reaction to seeing a previously decommissioned Driver in use deserves a special mention because he absolutely loses his composure over things not going his way for once. It actually seemed to mildly surprise even Wakabayashi.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: When Sakura activates her belt, it blocks off the battlefield, allowing her plenty of time to activate her henshin.
• You Were Trying Too Hard: This turns out to be the crux about why Sakura couldn't transform into Kamen Rider Jeanne at first. She was so focused on getting stronger and becoming invincible that she failed to realize acknowledging her weaknesses instead of ignoring them was the key to becoming truly unstoppable.

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