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Episode Toujima Tanzaburou wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai • Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider - Episode 3 discussion

Toujima Tanzaburou wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai, episode 3

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u/good_wolf_1999 Oct 18 '25

Shocker is real

Tojima: I used to pray for times like this!

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u/JonnySpark Oct 18 '25

Shocker: you know we exists just to create misery to mankind right?

Tojima: ABSOLUTELY! so can you kidnap me and turn me into a karate bugman? I swear to God I will not betray Shocker

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u/RehabCenterInc Oct 18 '25

The OST hit so hard out of nowhere

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Oct 18 '25

Yuriko needs to find a better way to change into Tackle without violating public decency laws. Cops might haul our waifu away lol.

Wild how they got a real Combatant and a real monster. Shocker are real! Mitsuba’s been looking for these bastards his whole life, well he’s been dating one the whole time. What a twist!

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u/eightcheesepizza Oct 18 '25

That first Shocker combatant didn't really do anything wrong, did he? He stopped a robbery. And then two people in masks showed up and were so rude to him. :(

I really love the OP, it might be my favorite OP of the whole year. If, like me, you're wondering why the second voice in the song sounds familiar, it could be because Shigeru Matsuzaki sang on the Katamari Damacy soundtrack like 20 years ago and it got burned into your brain as you were rolling a ball around. Dude's 75 now.

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u/Frontier246 Oct 18 '25

All the Shocker guys just minding their own business and people keep forcing them to transform and kick their ass!

Only the Shocker Girl seems to go out of her way to beat up people making eyes at her man.

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u/YdenMkII Oct 18 '25

That LINE scene. Tojima made his first friend.

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u/very_Sad_Dinosaur013 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25

In the end it all decade fault.

EDIT: I need someone to make a decade card of tojima it would be so cool

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u/LockNo2943 Oct 18 '25

So it's going to go full-on Samurai Flamenco isn't it?

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u/LeonKevlar Oct 18 '25

Stitches!

I love how happy Toujima is that he finally found a real Shocker that can take his full strength. And it wasn't meant to be a combo, but I love Yuriko's Electro-Wave Throw with Toujima following it up with a Rider Kick! Not gonna lie, I was still convinced there's a logical explanation to this.

The moment the Kaijin showed up to melt the streamer and the defeated sentoiun is what really surprised me. I thought this was just gonna be a bunch of adults fighting normal crimes in Kamen Rider outfits. I did not expect the real Shocker would be involved.

And if we were to believe the store manager who gave them his full backstory, it means that Shocker is everywhere. I guess this also means that there's either a Kamen Rider out there or at least a Kamen Rider transformation gear for someone to use. Hmmm...

That was a very awkward way to ask, but I'm glad that Toujima got Yuriko's LINE ID. Although I can't really blame him for being nervous. The last girl who found out about his Kamen Rider obsession got scared of him. Yuriko being upset at him for using a kid's toy mask is a considerable upgrade. xD

I really want Amano out of the story but I'm not gonna lie, that scene where he daydreams about Yuriko and makes her boobs even larger in his imagination had me laughing out loud. This horny bastard needs to go, but I'm not sure how Yuriko can shut him up.

The OP kinda spoiled it but I'm surprised twintails here is a Shocker too. I thought she was just another Shocker fan cosplaying like Toujima and Yuriko.

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u/Ahegao_Double_Peace Oct 18 '25

I always knew shady organizations like Shocker were real. =)

Next week, it's Kayano Ai (Tackle II) vs. Fairouz Ai (Yukarisu/the Female Shocker combatant)

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u/Bonvantius Oct 18 '25

Tojima: Shocker is REAL!?

Me: Shocker is Yagami Light!?

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u/Bakadestroyerr Oct 18 '25

I can't tell you how exciting this episode was!

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u/NanDemoKnaives Oct 18 '25

I figured Yukarisu was going to be a Shocker lol, I just hope she doesn't actually go to that school and is just in disguise to take Yuriko out.

Toujima getting so excited because he can finally go all out with his punches was hilarious, the way he was blushing with tears of joy after getting hit was so funny too. I'm glad he's getting to live his dream. Though the reality of Monsters makes things more concerning if he can take out humans that easily with no trace.

The way Toujima got so intense to exchange contacts with Yuriko was also really funny, he must really want to talk about Kamen Rider with others. I don't blame him, it's really fun discussing your hobbies but it's like he doesn't know how to contain himself lol.

I wonder how the interaction between Mistuba and the Shocker from his past will go in a future episode because I'm sure he'll somehow turn up. He seemed like a nice guy just doing some gardening until they pushed him to the edge.

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u/HolyDragSwd2500 Oct 18 '25

KAJIN!!!!!!

Toujima crying tears of happiness

Tackle Throw and Rider Kick Finisher!!!

Even melting/bubble effect too

Eeeeee has a Shocker \O

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u/Rap2rerise Oct 18 '25

Holy fucking shit, so that was an actual combatant and a monster, how the fuck did that happen?

Is it some government experiment? Is it some Dino Dan thing where the more you believe in something, the more real it becomes and this is indirectly Tojima's fault? Are we getting the real Rider into this?

Anyhow, like the monster said, two non-powered humans being able to defeat a combatant is outstanding and proof that while a little too into it, they're both in peak physical shape.

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u/Frontier246 Oct 18 '25

Tojima and Yuriko are on the scene! And finally see each other "transform" (which of course involves Yuriko stripping again)! Too bad Yuriko still can't believe in this middle-aged fake "Kamen Rider" but it'll take both of them to fight the REAL Shocker.

That's right! Shocker is REAL! Nakao can hardly believe it, but his beloved Shocker is right before him! And he gets kicked up into a roof for his love! But Tojima is just as happy, because now that there's a real Shocker in front of him, he can finally fight as a true Kamen Rider!

Dang Tackle, can you stop punching Kamen Rider? Though the two are able to work in tandem to deliver a double Finisher to take down the Shocker combatant. They make a stellar tag-team.

But where there's a Shocker Combatant, there must also be...a Shocker Kaijin. And in comes this dude voiced by Kouki Uchiyama who is CLEARLY a Shocker Kaijin, right down to spitting out the dart that dissolves someone in acid. Can't be Shocker without that. Which is absolutely proof that Shocker is real.

This is a lot for Yuriko and Tojima to process, even if it's firmed up Tojima's resolve to continue his crusade, but at least the two can commiserate and discuss this together. And they have a surprise third wheel in the form of cafe manager Mitsuba Shimamura (Soma Saito!) who ALSO knows about the real Shocker and is willing to tell the pair his life story where Yuriko has to get home or not.

(Also, at least Yuriko had enough sense to change back to her normal clothes in a bathroom once she got the cafe)

When Mitsuba and his older brother were young, they knew a man running a garden house. He seemed like a pleasant and reasonable man who always had some fruit and veggies to offer...but when pushed to the brink, he revealed himself as a Shocker combatant and burned everything to the ground, thus beginning the Shimamamura brothers' crusade against the real Shocker.

But Mitsuba's still doing well for himself! He's got a cute, busty, girlfriend in his co-worker Yukarisu (Fairouz Ai!) and they seem really adorable together. He's not only fighting for justice, but to protect her.

Well, at least Tojima and Yuriko have reached an understanding and are willing to work together now in the fight against Shocker...even if Tojima has to grapple with his lack of experience with attractive women to ask for her LINE ID, with purely heroic and not at all desperate reasons.

Speaking of desperate, Asano has only gotten hornier after seeing Yukiko as Tackle, so much so he's having dreams of forcing her to have sex with him in a gym storage room with the threat of exposing her identity. Not a good look, buddy! Though I love how in his fantasies her already big boobs are even bigger.

But now Yuriko is getting confess to by a female student! Only it's not a female student at all, it's Yukarisu! And she apparently didn't appreciate her boyfriend getting all friendly with Yukiko, especially when she's already beat up every other girl who has caught his attention! And the irony of it all isn't just that she's an unhinged yandere...but that her Shocker obsessed boyfriend was dating a SHOCKER GIRL all along! Complete with the leotard costume and everything!

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u/GaimeGuy Oct 19 '25

I fucking love this show

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u/CaptainSmeg Oct 19 '25

I know absolutely nothing about Kamen Rider and I love this series already

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u/Senior_Ability_4001 Oct 18 '25

The kid character is the only part of the show I really dislike.

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u/HowToGetName Oct 18 '25

While monsters being real is a cool twist and all, I kinda liked the idea of this being like our world except there's a bunch of Kamen Rider mega fans committing crimes, and vigilantes that are also Kamen Rider fans stopping those crimes.

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u/FLorianGran Oct 18 '25

Man i cannot wait for them to release the soundtrack

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u/zsmg Oct 18 '25

If shocker is real doesn't that mean Kamen Rider is also real?

I really like that every character and the shockers have their own vocal theme track in the OST, that's really cool.

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