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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Look, maybe it’s the translation, but I’ve got no idea what I’m supposed to be getting from the conclusion of this story. See if you can crack this for me:

I figured this open invitation was the perfect opportunity to go watch these episodes again and I'm happy to report that... Kuuga is a really awesome show!

What I'm way less happy to report is that the conversation at the end is indeed completely borked.

The gist of what's actually going down is that Mika was scared seeing Ichijou being so aggressive, all the more so because she had just seen him so happy right beforehand. She found it hard to believe that the guy violently restraining a criminal in the street was the same guy who was just chatting it up with her about their taste in sweets, but what Yuusuke is reassuring her of is that both of those sides of Ichijou are equally real, and that the side of him Mika was scared of doesn't invalidate or erase the part of him that's a kind person.

It's part of a larger theme in Kuuga, that I'm going to have to yell at you about when you finish the show, about violence, and the effect it has on people, something that connects directly to Yuusuke's current situation with his growing powers, the motives of the Grongi, and even the fact that the main villain in 43 isn't even a monster.

So needless to say, I think these episodes were actually pretty tight, to a level I wish I could articulate properly off the top of my head. But since I can't do that, I'll just mention one other translation error that really bugged me, which is in 42, during the conversation immediately proceeding this screenshot:

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...where Yuusuke says he's glad the meeting they all had didn't feel like a formal meeting at all, and more like regular old, normal time spent with friends. Nothing about how nice it would be if they could stop having meetings.