"Kamen Rider Zero-one" series: Episode eleven recap plus a Noa Tsurushima mag spread!

 Air Dates: September 1, 2019 until ???? on TV-Asahi, Sundays at 9:00 am

There will probably be fifty episodes and the subs were done by Ignis/Over-Time subs

Main Characters:  First off Hiden Intelligence's personnel

Fumiya Takahashi as Aruto Hiden.... 22 year old lad who is a failure at being a comedian. Inherited the presidency of Hiden Intelligence when his grandfather died and can transform into the Zero-One hero

Noa Tsurushima as Izu.... HumaGear who is the presidential aide to Aruto Hiden.

Kazuya Kojima as Jun Fukuzoe.... VP of Hiden Technology who wanted to be president, Aruto's new enemy

Asumi Narita as Shesta..... HumaGear who is secretary to Fukuzoe

Arata Saeki as Sanzo Yamashita.... Senior managing director at Hiden

Tokuma Nishioka as Koronosuke Hiden.... Aruto's grandfather, died in episode one

Other main characters:

Hiroe Igeta as Yua Yaiba.... Technical advisor for A.I,M.S., also a leader of the field unit and is Kamen Rider Valkyrie

Ryutaro Okada as Isamu Fuwa.... Hotshot terrorist fighter for A.I.M.S. who works with Yua and is Kamen Rider Vulcan

Syuya Sunagawa as Horobi.... Leader of the MetsubouJinrai.net terrorist group, rogue HumaGear

Daisuke Nakagawa as Jin.... Hacker for MetsubouJinrai.net, a HumaGear

Ryunosuke Matsumura as 'Little Assassin'.... MetsubouJinrai.net assassin, a HumaGear

Nachi Sakuragi as Gai Amatsu.... new in episode 11, president of ZAIA

Terms:

Hiden Intelligence- Company started by the elder Hiden to create A.I. HumaGears

A.I.M.S.- Artificial Intelligence Military Service, dedicated to destroying rouge HumaGears plus Maigas or anything to do with MetsubouJinrai.net

MetsubouJinrai.net- Cyper-terrorist group whose purpose is to hack into HumaGears and turn them rogue or more precisely, Maigas

HumaGear- A.I. Humanoids developed by the Hiden Company to serve mankind

Magias- Rogue HumaGears, turned evil due to the hacking of MetsubouJinrai.net

Trilobites- Inept creatures created by Magias to help them in their battles

Progrise Keys- Devices Kamen Riders use which have many different powers

ZEA- Hiden satellite which controls HumaGear and creates Progrise Keys

ZAIA Enterprises- Rival of Hiden Technology and still very unknown to viewers

 Usually don't give that much info to start things off but thought it may work out better this way. You'll have a handy-dandy guide to the characters and such, will be adding on to it when new things or persons are introduced. Plus it'll save me from repeating myself too often during a recap, though the heading may be long don't think these recaps will be as a show is just 23 minutes long.

          Episode eleven title: Do Not Stop The Camera, Stop That Guy!

 Noticed that Noa Tsurushima who plays Aruto's HumaGear assistant Izu had a five page spread in the December 13th issue of Friday and thought why not post the pics? Won't be doing any solo posts for her as she is a little too young but admit on this show she's such an incredible cutie and is really the most level headed and dependable of any character but that could be because she's not a human. You see Izu in so many screenshots and she looks nothing like her character.

 There's a 'Kamen Rider' film coming out on December 21st, there was an event for it earlier this week. So will do a post for it though may wait until it's premiere, not sure if it'll have it's own post or to include the pics in a Hiroe post as she's become such a huge fave of mine. On to the recap which to my surprise was a continuation of episode ten.

 In episode ten Hiden Technology was producing the first TV movie starring a HumaGear as a major character. The name of the movie was "Giri, The Dedicated Officer" and the HumaGear Enji was the main star next to the established actor Shinya Owada. But there was a major skirmish at the end and it appeared we would never know what the outcome would be to the movie. Did comment on that then and wondered if they just forgot about the movie.
 Well they didn't and much of this episode focused on that but first we did meet a new character who will be a very important one. He's in the top screenshot and the mysterious man's name is Gai Amatsu who is the president of ZAIA. They're a competitor of Hiden Technology but are actually much bigger but Hiden does have the edge on creating HumaGears. Amatsu has been secretly working with the A.I.M.S. agent Yua as we've seen them meet a few times but this is the first occasion we learned his name and saw his face. Amatsu's company has also been creating very powerful Progrise Keys which Yua has been using, though we only see him in one more scene he's going to be a very important man in the series and the main question is does he want to destroy Aruto?
 Back to the TV movie, the esteemed actor Shinya had quit the movie at the beginning of the episode but was talked into returning by Aruto. Shinya's goal is to make Enji a better actor but it's a bit tough as a HumaGear can't act with human emotions. But perhaps Shinya can make a bigger name for himself if he can find a way to get HumaGears to act better and it's back to the set where all is going well. But tragedy could be on the way as the team from MetsubouJinrai.net has planned to do away with Shinya. More so Lil'Assassin who has been ordered to slay the elder actor by his boss Horobi even though the Magia had become such a huge fan of the actor in the previous episode.

 At the time I was watching the show hadn't thought of it but now the possibility has popped into my tiny brain. After Shinya had agreed to finish the TV movie Aruto went with to the set to watch the filming which took place on a rooftop but had been called away by A.I.M.S. agent Yua. She wanted to bring him to her ZAIA boss Amatsu who had been dying to meet the new president of Hiden, Aruto had inherited the position from his grandfather in episode one.
 I'm thinking that Yua had wanted Aruto far from the rooftop as she knew he could transform into Kamen Rider Zero-One and could prevent the tragedy that was going to occur. You can see what happened above as Lil' Assassin disguised himself as an actor who was supposed to shoot Shinya's character but instead used a real gun to down the actor. We never did officially learn if Shinya was dead as there was no funeral or such but fairly positive he's no longer alive.
 While that action was taking place Aruto was meeting with Amatsu who surprised Hiden's president with an offer, Amatsu wants to purchase Aruto's company! Needless to say that threw Aruto for a loop and he was too stunned to give an answer but we all know he doesn't want to sell his grandfather's creation, it's still not settled by the end of the next episode. That meeting was cut short as Aruto was alerted to what took place at the movie set and rushed off to join the action.
 Lot of action was taking place too as besides Lil' Assassin the MetsubouJinrai.net boss Horobi and his assistant Jin arrived on the scene. Horobi had stolen a Progrise Key from Zero-One a few episodes ago, he's used it but stronger ones have been created using the original's design. And the Keys MetsubouJinrai.net have been using are making life for Zero-One much more difficult along with the pair of A.I.M.S agents Yua and Fuwa. These battles are getting much tougher for the good guys and it seems it'll just be a matter of time until they lose one too badly to continue on.

 In the last three episodes the evil Magias from MetsubouJinrai.net have defeated Zero-One, Yua and Fuwa quite soundly. But in each case instead of finishing the job Horobi and his troops just walk away even though their main goal is to destroy humanity. Can't understand why they don't eliminate their rivals for good which happened once again in the this episode's final moments, that's Horobi in purple above walking away with Zero-One too beaten to continue.
 Few final thoughts and they're mainly about ZAIA's president Amatsu along with his assistant Yua. We only have seen bits and pieces of what Amatsu says to her, ten or so seconds at a time. But have a strong feeling his company is behind the much more powerful Progrise Keys Horobi and Jin from MetsubouJinrai.net have been using. Can understand if Amatsu wants to bring down Hiden but why would he be helping out a terrorist organization whose goal is to destroy humanity? There are 37(?) shows left so positive we'll find out the answer sooner or later and also fairly certain so many more mysteries will be thrown in.

 Really enjoying this series but caught up so fast with the shows have to space them out, am only one behind right now. Have the recap for the next episode right below this one and after that will just be doing a pair of them every other week.