Kamen Rider Fourze/Headscratchers


 * So how exactly is Gentaro able to tell which switch goes into which slot on the belt?
 * Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the tops of the switches are shaped to match the shape on the limb and he's just switching it with a matching shape.
 * On the belt just under where the switches go there are silver areas. On each there's a symbol with an arrow pointing down underneath it, thus telling Gen, or us which switches go where.
 * It's actually much more simple than either of the above: the Switches are physically shaped to correspond to their slots in the belt. Video reviews on YouTube of the DX toy belt show this off pretty clearly.


 * What exactly do they do with the switcher once their Zodiarts Switch is destroyed? Do they just let them go? Do they get sent to jail? Some of these people would still probably be dangerous, even without the ability to turn into a zodiart, but it just isn't made very clear.
 * I assumed that they just let them go. Usually by the end the Switcher has learned their lesson, and so has their target, so there isn't any need to do anything but just let them go
 * Episode 8 implies that the switchers are hospitalized afterwards. Still doesn't explain though what is done with them once they're let out.
 * The preview of #13 deals with this; they're promptly expelled from the school.
 * Miura wasn't expelled, he was refusing to go to school because he was suffering from withdrawal symptoms. The fact that this sort of thing can happen just makes the Fridge Logic of what happened with the others worse.
 * As of the 30s, the general mentality seems to be "nobody would really believe the KRC if they actually told people at large that students were switchers, and since the school's staff are behind it all and keep tricking the police into thinking nothing's going on, any attempt they make to tell authorities would be stymied". Thus, students who have reformed and aren't suffering from withdrawal symptoms eventually go back to school, though they may experience some rare hostility from other students who were aware they were switchers. Students who don't reform... well, we still don't really know what happens in those cases.


 * Did Nitta really need the Zodiarts Switch to make JK pay? Miura sure, since he was kinda scrawny, but was anything really stopping him from giving the guy a few pops to the nose?
 * Since this is a Kamen Rider Series, we'll chalk it up to Rule of Drama.
 * Well, Scorpion did approach him and gave him a switch. Nitta isn't exactly going to turn this sort of offer down.
 * That and he tried it out once as soon as he caught it. It's been shown that using the Zodiarts Switches makes them Drunk on the Dark Side. Once he used it for the first time, he was probably hooked.


 * What exactly did Gentaro do in order to get special Sunday classes? I know Yuki was there due to tampering library books and Kengo for overall ditching classes, but what was Shun's plan to get Gentaro in detention?
 * It was probably just a matter of his grades being really, really, really bad.
 * Gen-chan got an 18 on the test that he took to exit the class. It took the teacher's aid to bring it to a 50 to allow him to pass. You tell me why he needed special classes. XD


 * Do they have multiple burger meal robots? I've noticed one of the subbing groups have translated with implications that there is more of them but don't they need the camera switch to make them work and there's only one camera switch as far as I know.
 * Presumably, the Camera Switch allows the Burgermeal to record stuff as opposed to just streaming them to the Rabbit Hutch.
 * Magenta of Over-Time has confirmed that the other translator, Heat Metal, invented the concept of multiple Burgermeal drones because he liked the idea. In the actual show, there is only one Burgermeal and it has no special functions without the Camera Switch.


 * In episode 14, did they really need to risk Kengo's safety with that glove that could channel a single switch at a time? Why couldn't they just have Shun or someone else temporarily become Fourze for the purpose of using that switch?
 * Perhaps like the PowerDizer, not just anyone can use the power of Fourze.
 * It's possible that since the Switches have evolved so far with Gentaro as Fourze, he's the only one that can use them now.


 * Ok, so Fourze himself can survive re-entry, great, that makes sense. But how the heck do they get his motorcycle back each time he does it?
 * It would probably be very impractical if his bike couldn't survive re-entry. Either that or they just make a new one each time.
 * I don't doubt that it can survive re-entry, I am just curious how they keep it from falling into the ocean or crashing into buildings or something.
 * It's possible that the Massigler just doesn't fall to Earth. If it stays in orbit, Gentaro could just find it with radar from the moon base, grab it and bring it down to earth using Parachute.


 * Alright, why the heck does Matoyama not buy a pair of earmuffs to block out the sound of singing? That would really help him if he wants to work in silence instead of turning everyone he touches into stone!
 * He can't. That would make too much sense.
 * Not to mention that the Horoscopes deliberately seek people out with enough mental issues (like Scorpio picking out those with grudges, or Libra selecting those who felt wronged) that risking their humanity isn't as important to them.


 * Shouldn't Ryusei/Meteor be tracking down the actual person who turned into Aries instead of, from the looks of it, finding the next Switcher with the potential to become the next Aries, just to punish him for shit he didn't even do? We know by the end of #18 that Red-eyes can banish people into black holes, for all we know that's where the past Aries is now.
 * The case is a bit different here : the switch blew up Jiro's face when he was trying to transform and his soul is now stuck... sowewhere. That's why Ryusei's trying to find a candidate for Aries : he thinks that completing the transformation will allow him to get the soul back.
 * I believe the implication here is that the Aries zodiart simply doesn't exist yet.


 * How come Gentaro never asks the former Zodiarts to join the Kamen Rider club? Makise, I can understand, but what about Miura, Tamae, Nitta, Teruhiko, and Ritsuko? Yes, he offers to be their friends, but still.
 * He asked Miura but Miura is in the photography club, and most likely everyone else would like to go back to what they were doing before the Zodiarts appeared. Tamae will be recovering to prove to Miu that she's willing to challenge her at Queen's Fest, Nitta is back to his fencing, Teruhiko is getting along with his father and Gentaro notes that Ritsuko will be put into extracurricular activities.
 * Anyone who wants to join the club can, as evidenced by Ryusei. Perhaps he does ask and they all just turn him down. Or perhaps Kengo's put an end to it.


 * What exactly is the singular of Zodiarts? It's been seen as both with or without the s at the end, so...?
 * There is none. "Zodiarts" is both singular and plural. It is how the Japanese language works, I'm afraid.


 * Does Meteor even have a back-up plan should the Aries Zodiart not help him out? Why can't he just ask Gentaro and make him use the Medical Switch to save his friend?
 * It probably doesn't work that way. The leading theory is that Meteor needs to defeat Aries to return his friend's soul to his body, not get its help.
 * Tachibana said that he would try to reverse engineer the Aries switch so that he could artificially induce Aries's sleep powers.


 * So, Gentaro's entire thing is that he wants to be friends with everyone. Wants to help everyone out with their personal problems and turn them into good people. Like he said in episode one (very paraphrased, can't remember the exact wording), "If I'm gonna be friends with everyone in school, that includes scumbags like you". Right, that's admirable. Very admirable. So...why doesn't he help out the guy that needs guidance the absolute most? How can he continue talking about how he's going to befriend everyone with a straight face when he just boots Makise off onto the curb? I mean, yeah, Makise's is (to use the understatement of the century) kind of a dick, but that's Gentaro's entire schtick. Helping the jackasses become good people by being their friend.
 * Theres a difference between asshole and crazy
 * ...but the majority of the Zodiarts are crazy.
 * But a majority have good reasons to be, and were just influenced by the switch. Being picked on, being used as a shield, ect. But Makise's reason is being rejected by girls, largely because he's creepy as fuck.
 * No, I would say the minority have very bad reasons to be crazy. Good reasons are sympathetic, understandable, and relateable, which very few Zodiarts have displayed. Reasons like "I don't want to graduate so I'll destroy prom", "The teacher took my fan so I'll imitate and frame her (and subsequently become a recurring villain)", "I want to have complete control over my track team", (as mentioned above) "People keep bothering me with their singing so I will not buy a pair of earmuffs", or "I want to be a witch in SPAAAAAAACE" aren't really very sympathetic. Hell, if anything, "Every girl I have approached in life has rejected me and now I am extremely bitter" is more sympathetic. How the Zodiarts switch twists their desire afterwards (such as Makise wanting to kill a busful of girls) isn't exactly representative of them as a person.
 * The thing is though, Makise has been rejected by a ton of girls before Yuki and probably before he got the switch. He was rejected for stalking them and being creepy. Maybe the switch did cause him to try and kill the girls, but there was a reason he was rejected. In regard to the other Zodiarts motivation well, technically the Altar Zodiart became one because she was constantly blamed for problems she didn't cause. The Perseus Zodiart was caused by a desire to paint a perfect picture and he thought the switch could give him the power to do that (his attacking people for causing distractions came after). A similar situation occurred with the prom girl, she tried to destroy prom after getting the switch. The Dragon Zodiart may have just started out wanting the best for his team, and the switch twisted that, I can't really tell. The Cancer Zodiart is a special case because if he wasn't how he is, he wouldn't have been a Horoscope.
 * Gentaro prioritized saving the people that Makise had put in danger ahead of befriending Makise, and by the time he had made sure that everyone was safe, Makise had been hospitalized.


 * How did Gentaro get to high school in the first place with grades like his? Is he just so Book Dumb the Japanese school system gave up?
 * Maybe highschool is just harder than he expected. Some people do great in middle school, but totally bomb when it comes to highschool. Also he's probably not getting a lot of time to work on his studies due to zodiarts


 * Misa Toriizaki's personality at the end of #24 really irked me. Why the fuck did she force
 * She's the leader of a cult. Cult's aren't exactly known for having the most rational behavior in the world.


 * Is Tachibana a jackass or an idiot? The price for Ryuusei having his secret identity revealed was to lose the power of Meteor. Fine until you realize that in the past there have been situations where Riders are knocked out of suit due to injury or have their belt stolen from them only to get it back. You're telling me he would have never allowed Ryusei to transform again if either happened? And the fact that Tachibana is so petty about this that when Ryusei could be killed by Cancer very easily, he just stood there and did nothing. From a practical standpoint, you lose your one soldier. The guy who has already infiltrated KRC, is trained in Jeet Kune Do, and does absolutely everything you say. From a human standpoint you just left someone to die whom you could have saved easily. I mean, press a button and the problem is solved. Sure Gentaro showed up, but it didn't seem like Tachibana would have done anything anyway.
 * Just because other riders can get knocked out of transformation doesn't mean Ryuusei can. Also Tachibana doesn't care about Ryusei as a person. His job is to fight the Zodiarts. That's all.


 * If Gamou/Red-Eyed Man's thing is that he wants to find all of the horoscopes, why is he willing to send them to the Dark Nebula?
 * Unless it's a hint that he can/will eventually bring them back from there.
 * Basically, he wants to awaken the 12 Horoscopes. But he's putting the ones that fail him too much in a kind of "time out" if they become too detrimental to his plans. After all, why would he keep them around if they end up screwing up the plans more than helping them?
 * And plus, he gets the switches when he sends them to the Nebula, so it may not be that he needs the Horoscopes but rather their Switches.
 * I think you may be right.


 * Is it just me or are the Horoscopes that find out Meteor's identity stupid? Do they ever tell Gamou that Ryuusei is Kamen Rider Meteor?
 * This could be explained pretty well. Both Aries and Cancer were pretty much doing whatever they want. Cancer was having too much fun messing with Ryusei and the Kamen Rider Club to tell Gamou (And even when he tried, Libra let his hatred for Cancer get in the way), and from what we saw Aries wasn't really working with Gamou, he was doing whatever he wanted.


 * So... if the School Facility know who Fourze is, why can't they do anything to not have him impede in their plans? Like say, suspending him or something like that?
 * Because, as #33-34 showed, it seems they need Fourze for certain plans to actually work at all.
 * Why is AGHS still operating at all?
 * I realize Gamou hypnotizes the cops looking into it, but what about the parents, superintendents or the feds? Wouldn't they be worried about MONSTERS RAMPAGING THROUGH A SCHOOL?!
 * In episode 13 it was established that at least the mothers are swayed very easily by the principal's good looks. Have no clue about the rest though.


 * Is there some sort of requirement that you have to be predisposed to insanity and homicidal tendencies to get into AGHS?
 * Nope. The way things look all of the switchers so far were, save those who are Horoscopes, have been regular students. It wasn't until after they gained their switches that they started going down a darker path. Best example would be Eguchi.
 * Cancer and Aries seem to have just been a genuine Sociopaths to start with, but that's just law of averages. It seems the Switches bring out the dark side of people the longer they use them. Plus, since Gamou is the chairman of the school, it's likely he's been making sure students that have the highest possibility of becoming Horoscopes are enrolled.


 * So... if Gamou can just induce amnesia to people, especially people who have failed him... why the hell does he need to go for the Dark Nebula? Just take the switch, and give them amnesia. It's way more effective as it doesn't raise concerned parents and teachers wondering where people went.
 * He doesn't seem to use it on students knowingly. Maybe he sends people to the dark nebula because he might need them later.


 * What became of the second Rocket Switch? Considering where it came from, you'd think, and that if Gentaro got to keep it, it would be mentioned.
 * It is assumed it's with Kengo, as he was the one who made the Super-3 Drill Switch. Possibly by reverse engineering the Super-1 Rocket Switch.


 * Gentaro once de-powered the Rocket and Drill Switches by using a Double Limit Break, exhausting all their power reserves. If that's the case, why is it he and Ryusei (especially Ryusei) can throw around single Limit Breaks without a care in the world?
 * A Double Limit Break is a Limit Break done twice in a row in very quick succession if the first Limit Break fails.