Episode 2: Is The AI Guy Friend? Or Foe?
Agents Yaiba Yua and Fuwa Isamu, members of the government’s AI crimes group A.I.M.S., pay a visit to Aruto, revealing their suspicions about Hiden’s involvement with covering up the events at the amusement park. When another HumaGear is hijacked by the mysterious man from before, Aruto jumps into action, and Fuwa is close behind him!
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Episode 1: I’m The President, and a Kamen Rider
Japan has entered a new era, one where HumaGears, synthetic lifeforms with human appearances have joined society to assist humanity and usher in the future. When the President of the company behind the HumaGears passes away, his grandson is chosen as his successor and given a dire warning: that the HumaGears will soon be taken over by a secret group planning to eliminate humanity and the only thing can stop them is the power of Kamen Rider Zero-One!
Well, we’re back again with the latest Kamen Rider season, Zero-One! This year, Toei moved to a 3 BD box setup, so Box 1 includes the first 16 episodes, but we’ll have a bit longer of a wait between boxes as a result. We’ve got quite the lineup of subs this time, with Over-Time, both styled and basic versions of GenmCorp, and Izu Subs! Because of the number of scripts, I have to be selective with QC, so the Genm and Izu scripts are spot-checked for timing, spellchecked, and some terminology updates have been made to all the tracks where necessary. If you find any spelling errors or anything, drop me a message here or on Twitter and I’ll add it to the master fix list for the batch. Enjoy!
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Episode 06: My Darling Flower
Having been taken in by ZECT, Souji makes several demands, including speaking to Juka and asking Hiyori to make her breakfast. Arata begins to worry about Souji, but when he arrives at ZECT, Souji has already begun his escape. In the process, he learns that two of the ZECT members are Worms, and Arata tries to warn Misaki, but it may be too late…
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Episode 05: Orders to Capture!
Ending up at Souji and Juka’s home, Hiyori and Juka bond over their shared history of being present for the Shibuya meteor strike. Later, Souji offers to join Hiyori at the Tokyo Tower, but when ZECT sets their sights on Kabuto, will he be forced to break his promise?
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Episode 04: Preach Love!
Arata must face the difficult truth about who his younger brother really is. Souji confronts Arata, telling him that he will defeat the Worms, no matter who they are. In the end, Arata is left with the toughest choice of his life, as the rain begins to pour…
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Episode 03: I Am Justice!
A woman named Yuki is attacked by the Lanpyris Worm and impersonated, but she survives, leaving two Yukis running around, but one is swiftly captured and imprisoned. Tensions increase between Souji & Arata, who is quickly falling out of favor with ZECT, as Souji sets the stage for the two Yukis to meet face to face again, kicking off a fight at an amusement park…
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Complete Series Batch
Rejoice! The Zi-O batch has arrived at last to rule over time and space… or maybe just your hard drives, as this is a loaded batch with several extras!
This batch contains in either 1080p or 720p:
There are a number of v2s with patches included for most of them (Complementation Project v2s are small and were not patched). Fixes include:
Barring any major errors that I missed that are identified after this, these will be the final versions of these files. Enjoy!
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Episode 02: Second Level Transformation
Arata struggles with the Kabuto Zecter having chosen Souji over himself, especially in the face of Kabuto’s defeat against the Worms’ Clock Up ability. After enjoying a meal at a small French cafe, Souji and Arata rush into another battle with the Worms where Souji reveals that he knows more about the Masked Rider System than he first let on, gripping the Kabuto Zecter…
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Episode 01: The Strongest Man
Seven years ago, a meteor slammed into the city of Shibuya and destroyed it, carrying with it the Worms, alien lifeforms that blend into the human population by copying people’s forms. The paramilitary corporation ZECT fights the Worms, developing the Masked Rider System as their anti-Worm weapon. When the paths of ZECT member Kagami Arata and the mysterious Tendou Souji cross, the day Souji has waited for finally arrives, as he is the man who walks the path of heaven…
We’re casting off the shell of another project as we kick off Kamen Rider Kabuto! This one comes courtesy of a number of subbers, with Yongou over Yonder providing the original scrub, reworking by Earthly, and an editing pass by MirrorWorld. Additionally, the fine folks over at RiderTime Subs lent a hand with new translations of the episode titles for us! As it is my understanding that RiderTime is still planning an entirely top-to-bottom retranslation of the series at some undetermined point, my intention is to patch in their subs to these releases as their new subs get released, and they are of course welcome to use the BD encodes for their releases as well. Anyway, for now, I hope these will satisfy people’s itch for Kabuto on BD as we work ever closer to completing all of the native HD Heisei Rider series! Enjoy!
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Time has flown by but we’ve reached the end of Kamen Rider Zi-O and the end of the Heisei era of Kamen Riders!
As always, huge thanks to the Over-Time crew for the subs for this year, plus the past subbers like Excite, Aesir, Railler, and Earthly for the bits and pieces used to unify some of the TLs to match our other BD releases!
I truly enjoyed this season a lot, especially because I always hate coming to the end of a show and the thought that we might never see a cast of characters again. Kamen Rider has been good about avoiding this in so many cases, but it’s always a treat to see favorite characters return even just for a bit. It was also great to see this season give Decade so much attention to really drive home that anniversary aspect again. All in all, I think Jeeg said it best recently on Twitter: “It’s an excellent show with an incredible cast and a superb final act. That last episode will go down as one of the best ever. I think a few years from now we’ll realize what a masterpiece this season was.”
As usual, a batch is planned and I’d like to get it out before the end of the year, but I need to go back over my notes for possible v2 fixes, so it may be delayed a bit for that, especially as I want to finish Ryusoulger Box 1 first. DDL catch up is still planned as soon as KRDL’s upload system is working again for me.
Like I say almost every year when we finish the most current BD releases, this likely marks the end of my own direct involvement with releases for Zi-O, but one never knows if we’ll end up with multiple tracks for movies. The summer movie will be out in a few weeks, and the Geiz V-Cinext is scheduled for April, which I’ll be picking up.
Speaking of April, we’ve got a slightly longer wait for our next series as Toei is following their change for Ryusoulger and switching Zero-One to a three-box release method. That’ll mean more episodes (16 instead of 12) but a bit longer of a wait. However, we’re still going to keep going into the Reiwa era, so look for Kamen Rider Zero-One in a few months!
