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Spirits That Manipulate Darkness (暗闇を操る魂, Kurayami o Ayatsuru Tamashii) is the eighteenth episode of Kamen Rider Blade. It features the debut of Go Kiryu as Kamen Rider Leangle.
Synopsis[]
While fighting Blade, Leangle unseals three more of Blade's cards. Leangle suddenly reverts back to Mutsuki, who was unaware of what he was doing, and Kazuma takes his belt away. Sakuya meets up with Go and sees what a cruel person he's become. The belt finds its way back to Mutsuki and he falls even more under the Spider Undead's control. Mutsuki tries to throw the belt away but it returns to him and transforms into Leangle. The Boar, Deer, Locust, and Jaguar Undead show up and Leangle, Blade and Chalice go to fight them. While fighting with Blade, Leangle is defeated and Go picks up the belt.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- Kazuma Kenzaki (剣崎 一真, Kenzaki Kazuma): Takayuki Tsubaki (椿 隆之, Tsubaki Takayuki)
- Sakuya Tachibana (橘 朔也, Tachibana Sakuya): Kousei (Hironari) Amano (天野 浩成, Amano Kousei (Hironari))
- Hajime Aikawa (相川 始, Aikawa Hajime): Ryoji Morimoto (森本 亮治 Morimoto Ryōji )
- Mutsuki Kamijo (上城 睦月, Kamijō Mutsuki): Takahiro Hōjō (北条 隆博, Hōjō Takahiro)
- Shiori Hirose (広瀬 栞, Hirose Shiori): Yumi Egawa (江川 有未, Egawa Yumi)
- Kotaro Shirai (白井 虎太郎, Shirai Kotarō): Terunosuke Takezai (竹財 輝之助, Takezai Terunosuke)
- Nozomi Yamanaka (山中 望美, Yamanaka Nozomi): Arisa Miyazawa (宮澤 亜理沙, Miyazawa Arisa)
- Haruka Kurihara (栗原 遙香, Kurihara Haruka): Kaori Yamaguchi (山口 香緒里, Yamaguchi Kaori)
- Amane Kurihara (栗原 天音, Kurihara Amane): Hikari Kajiwara (梶原 ひかり, Kajiwara Hikari)
Guest cast[]
- Basketball Team Member: Yutaka Fujinuma (藤沼 豊, Fujinuma Yutaka), Daisuke Sano (佐野 大輔, Sano Daisuke)
- Go Kiryu (桐生 豪, Kiryū Gō): Nozomu Masuzawa (増沢 望, Masuzawa Nozomu)
- Criminal: Taichi Inomata (猪又 太一, Inomata Taichi)
- Basketball Player: JUNYA
- Locust Undead(Voice): Katsumi Shiono (塩野 勝美, Shiono Katsumi)
- Deer Undead, Jaguar Undead(Voice): Toru Omura (大村 亨, Ōmura Tōru)
- Boar Undead(Voice): Hiroyuki Fukuyama (福山 弘幸, Fukuyama Hiroyuki)
- Leangle(Voice): Kiyoyuki Yanada (梁田 清之, Yanada Kiyoyuki)
Notes[]
- As part of Super Hero Time, this episode aired alongside Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger episode 15, Episode. 15: Android Girl.
- Viewership: 8.9%
- Closing Screen Rouse Card: Change Spider (Improper Seal)
- The intro was updated to include Leangle.
Meme[]
- A scene of the convenience store's old female worker alerting a robbery by calling Mutsuki to catch him has become a subject for the Ondul language, given the lady's near-unintelligible line "追っかけてん 睦月" (, Okkaketen Mutsuki, Go get him, Mutsuki!), which sounds like "オッペケテンムッキー!" (, Oppeketen Mukkī!). This line usually appears in Niconico streaming sites where videos of chase scenes would occur, causing the audience to quote the meme. It was also through this meme that Mutsuki gains the nickname Mukki (ムッキー, Mukkī), a fact that is acknowledged by his actor, Takahiro Hojo,[1] who also at times visiting the store's real life location (Mami Mart in Matsukazedai, Higashimatsuyama, Saitama) and/or reenacting the chase scene.[2][3][4]
DVD releases[]
Kamen Rider Blade Volume 5 features episodes 17-20: The Evil Belt, Spirits That Manipulate Darkness, One Who Conquers Darkness and The Target is Kotaro. It was released on DVD on December 10th 2004, with a total run time of 93 minutes.
Blu-ray Box 2 comes with 16 episodes.