#sonozaki raito

[cephalopadre]

Spoilers for both Gundam 00 and Kamen Rider W!

Tfw you're an nb computer person stuck in mind palace purgatory after vaporizing your body for your precious friends

[incorrectreiwarider]

Shoutaro: This is… so dumb.

Phillip: *sitting on Shoutaro’s shoulders* The higher I am, the better I can see.

Shoutaro: You can… you can fly with the-

Phillip: Hush now, Shoutaro, I am searching-

[kamenridergaysex]

kamen rider w episode 48

[kittysmittens]

yall i found this cat & dog in a box on the side of the street what do i do with them

[ryuutaswag]

philip w keroppi

[monsterwithasweater]

"THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A DANCE BATTLE!?"

-My dad when he watched episode 7 of W with me. Now I kinda wish they did XD

[most-calm-revice-and-geats-fan]

W gang!

We've just finished watching W! Dang the ending made me kinda emotional, but overall, the series was great! Even if some of the characters were a little insufferable (LOOKING AT YOU, ISAKA!) *cries*

So now here's the gang! The app ended up crashing when I drew Phillip and Ryu, (Shotaro was alright-) But I still think I did well on them! I love the half hard-boiled gang, tho Phillip's my fave

After watching the movies (excluding Fuuto Pi), we're gonna watch OOO and Zero-One! Dis'll be a lot of fun hehe-

Also the slipper says: "Hai, Chiizu!/はい、チーズ !", or "Say Cheese!" Probably one of the most enjoyable things of the series- Phillip's book? Hmmmmm-

[ichippon]

my friend said they wanted to see philip in my style! i've never watched w but well... i tried :)

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Prelims - No Propaganda Division - Group 2

[unsteadyheroes]

[dankusoofficial]

[everybodyjump01]

[disaster666-catastrophe]

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Chubby Philip🍡(kamen rider W episode16)

[mmikmmik2]

I think Shroud and Skull probably became very distant from each other after the events of the Skull flashback movie with the spider dopant. I mean, Narumi was like "my new thing is Count Up Your Sins" and Shroud is uhhhhh. Her journey to admitting she did Everything Wrong is a long and arduous one that's going to take her like 15 years and an accidentally created super-murderer or two along the way. It's funny to imagine her continuing to live in Skull's basement long-term but I think it's more likely that they continued to work with each other because they were the two strongest anti-Museum forces in the city, but didn't really trust each other as allies.

[sailorgokaidecade]

All Millennium-Era (Heisei + Reiwa) Kamen Riders (2000-2024):

Yusuke Godai (Kamen Rider Kuuga)

Tetsuya Sawaki/“Shoichi Tsugami” (Kamen Rider Agito)

Shinji Kido (Kamen Rider Ryuki)

Takumi Inui (Kamen Rider Faiz)

Kazuma Kenzaki (Kamen Rider Blade)

Hitoshi Hidaka (Kamen Rider Hibiki)

Souji Tendo (Kamen Rider Kabuto)

Ryotaro Nogami (Kamen Rider Den-O)

Wataru Kurenai (Kamen Rider Kiva)

Tsukasa Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade)

Shotaro Hidari & Raito “Philip” Sonozaki (Kamen Rider Double)

Eiji Hino (Kamen Rider OOO)

Gentaro Kisaragi (Kamen Rider Fourze)

Haruto Souma (Kamen Rider Wizard)

Kouta Kazuraba (Kamen Rider Gaim)

Shinnosuke Tomari (Kamen Rider Drive)

Takeru Tenkuji (Kamen Rider Ghost)

Emu Hojo (Kamen Rider Ex-Aid)

Takumi Katsuragi/“Sento Kiryu” (Kamen Rider Build)

Sougo Tokiwa (Kamen Rider Build)

Aruto Hiden (Kamen Rider Zero-One)

Touma Kamiyama (Kamen Rider Saber)

Ikki Igarashi (Kamen Rider Revi) & Vice (Kamen Rider Vice)

Ace Ukiyo (Kamen Rider Geats)

Hotaro Ichinose (Kamen Rider Gotchard)

Shoma Inoue (Kamen Rider Gavv)

[narashikari]

Kamen Rider W also had Philip seemingly "forgiving" his family, including Ryubee, in their death, being sympathetic to their predicament to think that they're freed from Gaia Memory influence....

Yeah, there's that too.

Tbh it does bother me as well, considering how Philip was raised by Ryubee after he fell into the Well was... inhumane. Shroud was no better, since she left her kids with that monster- and that's after what he did to her, his own wife. And then she spends ten years obsessing over rescuing Philip, while Wakana and Saeko seemed mostly like an afterthought.

Afaik, W made it look like the unrefined Gaia Memories that they use were entirely to blame for the Sonozaki family's fall into villainy.

As with many people who use the unrefined Gaia Memories they sell, the more they use them, the more they deteriorate- though the Drivers they use lessen the effect somewhat, unlike those who just use them with the tattoo-style connectors who go downhill in a manner of days (or those who had their Memories tampered with, who deteriorate even faster). And in the same way, they also regain their morality after they stopped using them for some period of time.

In the case of Saeko and Wakana, being influenced by those Gaia Memories in their formative years and also being raised by Ryubee in a very fucked up manner seem to be the biggest arguments in favor of them deserving redemption. Especially Wakana, who had moments where her conscience did awaken, due to Philip's influence.

It also helps that while we don't really have much to go on as far as their lives before Raito's death, it seems like they were just a perfectly ordinary and happy (but obscenely wealthy) family. So we can imagine that, had the tragedy of Raito's death not occurred, they would have no reason to seek out the Gaia Memories' power and they would remain that perfectly ordinary and happy family.

I'll admit I'm not normally a fan of redemption via death, but I think W's case is one where it works for the purposes of the story. After all, they all started down this road because Raito died. And now, they ended this road by dying so Philip can live once more.