r/KamenRider • u/BananaArms Knife of Spear • Dec 20 '25

Official Discussion Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E15 - Discussion Thread

This thread is for discussion about the latest Kamen Rider ZEZTZ episode.

E14 <- E15 -> E16

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HOW TO WATCH

COUNTRY URL TIME
US,CA,PR,UK,AU,NZ TokuSHOUTsu YouTube Channel (English) Saturdays@7:30PM Pacific Time, reruns through Monday, Replays on Fridays@5PM
JP TV Asahi, ABC (Japanese) Sundays@9:00AM Japan Time
JP TELASA, Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club (Japanese) Sundays@10:00AM Japan Time
CN Bilibili, Tencent Video, iQIYI (Mandarin) Sundays@10:00AM China Standard Time
TW CHT MOD, Hami Video (Mandarin) Mondays@8:00AM Taiwan Time
TW EBC YOYO (Mandarin) The following Saturday@5PM
HK ViuTV (Cantonese) The following Sunday@11AM
Latin America TokuSato YouTube Channel (Spanish, Portuguese) Saturdays@11:30PM Brasilia Time

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CASE TITLE RELEASE DATE SCREENPLAY BY DIRECTED BY
E15 照らす Lighten December 21, 2025 Takahashi Yuya Kamihoriuchi Kazuya
CASE RATING CASE RATING
E01 8.79 E11 9.52
E02 8.78 E12 9.39
E03 9.02 E13 9.52
E04 8.56 E14 9.76
E05 8.82 E15 9.32
E06 9.04
E07 9.02
E08 8.9
E09 8.79
E10 8.89
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u/ENAKOH Dec 21 '25

Ahh, I thought it was from franz kafka 'metamorphosis' novel.....seems not

For context : I never read the novel, I happened upon a manga adaptation of it (this was like 2006 or so) in which the story more/less went as the novel , with a bit addition/epilogue at the ending : mc (in human form) saw his fiance (or the girl he likes, forgot) and mc said "he dreamed of being a bug" or sth, and the girl replied with the butterfly line. MC got suprised/confused and the page ends there

Since then I thought the butterfly line originated from metamorphosis lol

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u/Boba_Fed Dec 21 '25

https://www.reddit.com/r/KamenRider/comments/1naeg7v/comment/nd5akcy/?context=3

Holy moly I just thought it would be a fun prediction, didn't expect it to be that explicit. Saw it coming 3 months ago lol

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u/Minimallycheese Dec 21 '25

Fascinating.

I suppose that’s what a line from David Cronenberg’s The Fly was invoking ”I am an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over… and the insect is awake”