Kamen Rider OOO 23 – Evolution and Hot Nerd

A different kind of bromance...

In this episode of Kamen Rider OOO, Kazari seems to have evolved quite well and now can use both of Mezool and Gamel’s abilites! Asides from that, he decided to use the nerd named Sakura to give him a new Yummy!


First up let’s talk about evolution, Kazari has quite evolved into your average house cat into a larger threat compared to Ankh backstabbing you at the end. Seeing this quite evolved Kazari and gave Uva, OOO (who used the Taka, Gorilla and Tako Random Combo, giving Bandai a license to create another SHF!) and Birth a hard time that forced OOO to use Tajadol Combo! It seems that this battle for the medals will be more interesting compared from before… and gave Uva thoughts to evolve as well. I like what is happening to this series so far.


As for the battle, it was really good how they build up the tension between Uva and Kazari before the two dueled. As for OOO’s new Combo, nah, there is nothing special with it like the other two Combos from the previous arc. The only thing that is special with it is that, they finally showed the Gorilla arm’s Rocket Punch ability!


To the hot nerd part, in this episode, Sakura has a dormant desire to become beautiful which Kazari decided to use for his next Yummy. For most of the episode, we saw her act like what regular lab researchers do, research, getting bullied by her superior (which is her sister) and act like a regular shut in. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting that any Yummy will appear in this episode… until she left me off guard and decided to have a makeover!


Her transformation from a nerd to a goddess was one of the weird parts of this episode. I find how this episode turned out the entire time in which they talked about evolution and seeing how Kazari has grown from a regular house cat into a hybrid between a house cat, a dumb ape and a mermaid. But instead, we have a shocker at the end with his subject finally, getting with her own desires!


To be honest, I love how they hinted that she is related to Date during the episode and I would assume that they would focus on it in the next episode, but no, they left us off guard and pulled this out! It seems that the writers have something more to give in their sleeves!


Overall, it is one of the rare episodes that the Yummy never made its appearance in this episode until the near end of it. Which is something good and caused many viewers to go off guard thinking that we will see Sakura go into her desires till the next episode and see Shauta Combo make its debut! 

Asides from that, I love the primary focus in this episode, evolution, evolution as one of the Greeeds, in the form of Kazari and evolution as a person, in the form of Gotou, which became friendlier and Sakura, from a shut in into a goddess. In the next episode, OOO Shauta Combo makes its splashing debut… with Hina responsible in turning Eiji into it!