Kamen Rider Episode 32, "Man-Eating Flower Dokudhalian"

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

A young girl goes out to a local flower shop to get a gift for her mother. She is greeted by a kind looking lady who offers her an extra free strange looking flower, the girl takes her up on this offer and returns home. Laughing, the woman reveals her true identity to be a much older woman, step one of the plan has begun.


Returning home, the girl gives her mother the original bundle of flowers and places the odd flower on the table. As the two talk, the room suddenly grows dark. The little girl holds her mother for protection, but passes out.


Outside the window, the shadow of a creature is seen, followed by the mother also passing out.



A flower like creature walks into the room, revealing itself to be the old woman from earlier. Shocker soldiers enter the room as ordered by the old lady and carry off the mother, leaving her daughter.


Meanwhile, a drunk man stumbles around outside by the street cheerfully singing. He notices the shocker soldiers entering a car and stumbles over. He tries to communicate with them, but they respond with a sharp "Eee!". Knocking him down, the car drives away.


The man is helped up to his feet, and to his surprise, he sees he has been helped by none other than the spooky flower monster! The creature grabs the man, which is followed by what I believe to be the monster "drinking" the poor guy, till he's nothing but pile of clothes.


The monster returns to his own customized nifty base, complete with a cool painting on the wall. (So customized, that he's got to bend over just to fit through the door.)


The mother awakens to find herself in the base, face to face with the monster and Colonel Zol!


Another captured victim is rushed into the room and sprayed with some sort of poision. As he falls to the ground, Dokudhalian turns to the mother and sprays her also. Now, I honestly didn't see this coming, I was expecting her to be used as a hostage of some sort. Oh nevermind, that wasn't even the mother, it was some other captured lady who looks incredibly similar!

(How could I resist not captioning Zol laughing?)

Later, the little girl awakens to finding herself all alone. She walks outside, and wait, what a coincidence! Ichimonji Hayato aka Rider #2 comes riding by on his bike.

The two find the remains of the drunk man from the night before. They also find a strange leaf, which the two bring to be examined at a lab.



Meanwhile, two girls jogging by the flower shop decide to stop and enter it. They quickly spot the strange plant (Also from earlier.) and approach it. The two are stopped by the creepy old lady who also transforms into Dokudhalian. (Eeyuk eeyuk eeyuk!)

However, we do not quite yet see their fates, as the scene cuts to as man just sitting around on his bike, when suddenly (Say whaaa!?) shocker soldiers appear out of no where! And of course, combat ensues. The shocker soldiers quickly overpower him and drag him into their get-away car. Luckily, Hayato just happened to be driving by once again and of course, follows the get-away car. Catching up, the shocker soldiers empty out of the car,and once again, combat ensues! (What were you expecting?) Dokudhalian grabs Hayato but Hayato manages to escape his grip, replacing himself with one of the unfourtunate shocker soldiers, who is soon given the same fate as the drunken man.


Dokudhalian fights rather dirty, what with using a whip and all, but who cares, we've got Hayato at the scene, who quickly henshins! The two (Well, including the shocker soldiers.) fight on a bridge and Dokudhalian repeatedly screams like a girl whenever pushed close to the side. (What did you expect, a manly scream?) She soon makes a run for it.



Later, Dokudhalian is seen once again attacking an innocent man, luckily, (Well not so much, they were a little late.) a group of people hear his screams and rush to aid him, finding his remains on the ground. Hayato stumbles on what happens to be the Shocker HQ, and of course, he fights, putting up a pretty good fight, even rescueing a couple of captured victims. During the fight, the victims are seen walking around with balls on chains (Or weights.) which don't seem to slow them down at all. Soon however, Hayato is literally "Netted" and "Shanked" by the Shocker Soldiers, too bad so sad.

"Eeyuk eeyuk eeyuk!"

Dokudhalian and a group of shocker soldiers move to a nearby valley, where they tie up a few of the victims and chains, and pick Hayato to hoist up on a large cross, and apparently, burn him. The two victims (One being Tobei) manage to escape their chains and rush to assist Hayato, quickly taking him off the cross by cleverly tying their chains around the cross and pulling it down. Once freed, Hayato henshins once more!

Hayato leaps to a nearby cliff, where wouldn't you know it, his bike was left all this time! Chasing around the baddies for awhile, he finally decides to get off the bike and show Dokudhalian who's boss. Dokudhalian doesn't go down without a fight though, and tries to "Drink" him a couple times, none successful though. Finally, #2 manages to RIDER THROW him to where the burning cross was before and Dokudhalian suffers a fiery death.


The little girl is united with her mother, and with a job well done, Hayato drives off on his bike!

"What, did you think I wasn't going to win?"

Damn, the episode title had me thinking Doku would eat someone, what a let-down.