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Welcome, to the first Anime Review of this blog. As we are still waiting for Spring Anime 2024, i think it’s a good idea if we start reviewing old anime.
Fuuto Pi, serves as a good idea. It doesn’t have a long length number episode (with total of 12 episode). So don’t worry all 12 episodes will be covered.
Story Summary
Show started with a little flashback to the beginning of Kamen Rider W. The iconic Kamen Rider W first transformation and the death of Shotaro’s mentor Sokichi Narumi a.k.a Kamen Rider Skull.
Flashforward the scene goes to Shotaro taking selfies of himself posting it to internet. At the same time Akiko is calling him, instructing him to come back at once for they have a client back in office. Shotaro wondering why Akiko hasn’t mellowed out even though married already.
Suddenly a mysterious woman passing by. Shotaro trying to seduce the girl (seemingly) but actually got seduced instead (at least that is my impression of the scene). The mysterious girl reaction however , giving Shotaro an impression that she is a prostitute searching for a prey.
Shotaro being Shotaro, chickened out and passed the girl only to realized not much later that the mysterious girl has vanished into thin air.
Back to the office The Client Chuuta Tsubosaki asked for investigation after his money was robbed by “The Witch”. From Chuuta’s confession he wants to meet “The Witch” again as he has fallen in love. Shotaro agreed to the case.
Shotaro then begin to gather information from all his informant. You can see many familiar face there (If you are an old timer fans). Not long, Shotaro meet “The Witch” again, which turned out to be the same woman Shotaro meet the night before.
Shotaro chase the woman, but sadly lost track of her. Instead, he was thrown into another dimension and come out to some stranger (Tachikawa / who looks like gangster). Being accused of Tresspassing, Luckily, Jin and Makey saved Shotaro.
Jin and Makey then revealed that “The Witch” case is being escalated into a murder case, surprising Shotaro. The murder itself is pretty gory as it involved mutilated body parts.
Chuuta, worried that the next time they find “The Witch” might be the last time urge Shotaro to bring him along.
Shotaro then track “The Witch” again. His deduction then leads him to “The Witch” again, this time still taking a bath on a fountain.
Another chase happens between Shotaro and Tokime. Unfortunately in the middle of chasing, Shotaro and Chuuta is brought into another dimension. As if not enough, there they are attacked by unknown enemy.
They run away from the attack. When the attack almost hit Shotaro, the attack is suddenly deflected by something. Xtreme memory revealed to be the one deflecting the attack and Philip comes out from it.
The episode ended with Philip reminding Shotaro “We are two-in-a-one detective”.
What I Like
Fuuto Pi being the sequel of Kamen Rider W must confused many anime-only watcher. However, this episode is doing a good job at Introducing the central character and even many weird Kamen Rider W terminology.
The music has the same vibe and the artsyle is good and has that semi 3D style.
What I Dislike
Maybe because it is episode 1, but really it miss fighting scene. If i don’t misremember, usually Episode 1 of every Kamen Rider has at least 1 fight scene. This one doesn’t, which may feel a bit boring for anime-only watchers. All and all i hope Episode 2 has a fighting scene.
Conclusion
Episode 1 serve as the opening to the sequel of Kamen Rider W. The story is still just beginning, but this episode lacks fighting scene.
Still, it is still going on that World-building route first fighting later scenario, so that might not be bad after all.
All in all this is a pretty solid episode 1, despite lacking the fighting scene. You smell Kamen Rider W all over this anime, so its good.
With that i give this episode 1 a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
If you are interested about this series, you can watch the full episode here. Leave a comment please. Also don’t forget to also watch my review of Top 5 Anime to watch this upcoming 2024 Spring .