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/Seth-Cypher Dec 21 '25

Think maybe Kensei could be a plant? Not by CODE but maybe Zero.

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u/Minimallycheese Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

…holy crap you might be on to something.

CODE isn’t doing enough to solve the Nightmare problem, so Zero has his most trusted agent go undercover to infiltrate The Lady’s operation without CODE’s oversight.

Nox being “abandoned in the dream” was deliberately set up to make his defection as realistic as possible, with all of their confrontations being them keeping up the act for their respective superiors (though I don’t doubt that there’s some lingering resentment from Nox).

The whole “Eliminate the Enemy” Mission was a test from Zero to see if Baku’s ideals could shine through the murkiness of the Spy world (”Dont let me down”)

I’m a little obsessed with this theory.

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u/RadioRavenRide Dec 21 '25

But that doesn't explain why Zero would tolerate:

  • Nox helping the bomb nightmare, which increases Baku's workload and possibly killed a lot of people
  • Nox being in a coma for years while Fujimi is looking for him. As I understand, his death wasn't actually faked so it seems sloppy.

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u/Minimallycheese Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

They have to convince both organisations that Nox has turned against CODE and is helping the Nightmares.

For that to work, it has to appear as real as possible and Nox has to get his hands dirty so there are no doubts whose side he is on.

No half measures