Kamen Rider Zeztz 34 – Rider Tears
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Kamen Rider Zeztz Episode 34 Is Stunning
Kamen Rider Zeztz Episode 34 is stunning.
All you have to do is watch the episode and you’ll believe me. The depths of how good it is are difficult for me to articulate. I’m almost getting sick of glazing this show because it has just been so consistently good. But the totality of it is that Zeztz is just a very good Kamen Rider series.
Honestly, even if this was not Kamen Rider and it was just some weird supernatural dream agent show, it would still be great.
The visuals are great. The escalation makes sense. The story keeps deepening in logical ways instead of random ways.
And I think this episode really proves that.
Baku Acts Logically
Baku gets this almost godlike dream power and immediately uses it to infiltrate Sieg’s dreams and stop him.
Why?
Because Sieg is a gigantic threat.
I love that the show understands this. The second Baku gets the power to directly stop him, he does everything he can to end the threat immediately. He does not waste time. He does not artificially hold back.
He acts logically.
That is one of the things making the escalation work so well in Zeztz. Every time the power scale increases, the characters behave in ways that actually make sense.
Sieg Wants a “Better” Nightmare
What makes Sieg fascinating is that he has become completely desensitized to horror.
When the nightmare punishment is afflicting him, he basically says:
“I’ve seen it all. I’ve lived the horrors. There’s no nightmare you can scare me with.”
That is such a good villain concept.
He has become spiritually numb. Like an addict who needs a higher and higher dosage just to feel something. He manipulates nightmares and inflicts suffering on others because ordinary suffering no longer affects him.
He wants the nightmare to become worse and worse until something finally reaches him emotionally.
And that is why his ending is so interesting.
By the end of the episode, it almost feels like Sieg is satisfied when he dies. Or whatever exactly happened to him inside the dream layers.
Because for the first time, somebody stronger than him completely takes control away from him.
Baku overrides his dream.
Baku manipulates him.
And I honestly think that may have been exactly what Sieg wanted the entire time.
The Dream Layers Are Really Interesting
The dream infiltration stuff in this episode was fantastic.
I genuinely do not fully know how many dream layers deep we were by the end.
Baku goes into Nem’s dream. Then he enters Sieg’s dream within that dream. Then after defeating Sieg, he exits back into Nem’s dream instead of the real world.
So has Sieg actually been in the real world at all since becoming an agent?
I honestly think maybe not.
From what we see, it almost feels like Sieg has been lost in dreams this entire time, except unlike everyone else, he enjoyed it.
The Escalation Is Excellent
I love the escalation of Baku’s powers in this episode.
At first Sieg says:
“No, you are not infiltrating my dream.”
Then Baku just pushes harder and harder and harder.
He goes deeper into the dreamscape. He overrides things. He manipulates memories. He starts warping reality itself inside the dream.
And I absolutely love the visual of the Zeztz Extreme doors replacing the nightmare doors as he descends further into Sieg’s subconscious.
That was such a cool touch.
There is also something really interesting about how invasive Baku’s power feels now. He offers Sieg a chance to repent and walk away from the nightmare, but Sieg refuses because he genuinely likes being evil. Once Baku realizes Sieg is completely unrepentant, he destroys him.
The whole thing feels violent and decisive in a way that I really appreciate.
Baku recognizes the immediate threat and ends it as quickly as possible.
The White Moon and the Red Moon
The CODE Somnia stuff is really interesting too.
Someone in the comments explained to me that CODE Somnia is apparently the little moon fragment inside the Capsum, and I did not fully realize that at first. But now that we have seen it directly in the episode, I noticed something very interesting.
Throughout the series, whenever we see the dream moon, it is red and has that distinctive indentation in it.
But in Sieg’s memories, during the earlier dream infiltrations and assassinations, the moon is still white.
It still has the indentation.
But it is white instead of red.
So now I am wondering:
Was the moon stained red by all the murders?
If that moon fragment is what allows dream infiltration and nightmare manipulation, did all the killings committed through it metaphorically or literally stain the moon red?
Because honestly, that feels very possible to me.
And if that is intentional, it is a fantastic detail.
They Still Have to Stick the Landing
What is really impressive about Episode 34 is that it almost feels like the endgame already.
Baku feels overwhelmingly powerful now. Sieg is defeated. The escalation has reached absurd levels.
So what can even challenge him now?
That is what I am really curious about going forward.
But so far, Kamen Rider Zeztz has continued sticking the landing over and over again. And if it keeps doing that through the ending, this could genuinely end up being one of the strongest modern Kamen Rider series.
Final Question
Do you think Sieg has actually been trapped in the dreamscape this entire time since becoming an agent?
Drop a comment and let me know where you stand on this.
MJ Muñoz 