After Spider-Man (Shinji Todou) failed to stop the Iron Cross Army
blowing up a high rise building and got injured when fighting the Army's
new Machine Bem (~ robot monster) Bomb Wolf, he is thrown into an identity
crisis, and when he hears the Iron Cross Army plans to blow up another
high rise, he doesn't even find the proper motivation to stop them - until
he stumbles upon a boy who has lost his father in the previous explosion
and who know wants to avenge himself, without any superpowers or anything
- a boy who very much reminds Spidey of himself (he has also lost his
father to the Army). Motivated by the boy's plight, Spidey stops the
explosion and fights, defeats and destroys Bomb Wolf, also with the help
of his giant robot Marveller/Leopardon. There's nothing much
to this episode on a narrative level, and especially Spidey's identity
crisis is brought to the screen in a rather disappointing and cheesy way,
but at least Bomb Wolf, who looks like a Haloween werewolf costume with
rockets attached to it, looks hilarious.
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