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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Zi-O
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05-19-2022, 06:45 PM
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(Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Zi-O - EP49)
I don't think this track was used anywhere except for the very final scene of the show? I don't know if it was specifically composed for it or not, but I definitely feel like it's pretty rare for a Rider show to pull out new background music right at the end. Because of that, this track left a pretty big impression on me, but I also just wanted to share it because I think it set such a great vibe to leave the show off on? I
adore
those last moments of the finale. Woz literally closing the book on Zi-O, as we leave these characters finally in charge of writing their own destiny... it was pretty much everything I could ask for from the ending to this show. (I'm pretty dang fond of Sougo's final speech to his future self, too.)
I'm pretty proud of my post about it from the time, if that isn't weird to say? Like, I don't know, reading it back, there's not much I could say any differently now, and I especially think it's adorable that you can even catch the origins of what I will eventually properly coin as The Tsukuyomi Zone, a term I am still way too enamored with. And while it isn't the level of deja vu Die's post about Build's finale gave me, you can even catch some more inexplicable similarities between his discussion of the episode/series and mine, right down to bringing it all back to quoting our thoughts from the start. Kinda freaky!
(Oh, and speaking of which, that old post is also part of why I put so much emphasis on Sougo's speech from the second episode and how I felt about that scene initially when Die got to it. I wanted to make it clear when we got here that me using that screencap had a sort of secret personal weight behind it. I used to think those words from Sougo meant nothing, and there I was a year later, using them to defend Zi-O's finale, because I thought they meant a whole lot. It was just like how Geiz finally called Sougo by name... maybe!)
But yeah, Zi-O. I really do love it to bits, if that hasn't been made abundantly clear by now. To quote Sougo again --
what's so wrong with a bumpy road?
So it stumbled out of the gate. So the endgame makes some odd decisions. So lots of other decisions they made didn't totally pan out either. ...So what? Plenty of that stuff bothered me every bit as much as it did other people, but that was all part of the journey, and in the end, it just makes Zi-O that much more precious to me. I wasn't linking all these old posts this whole time just because I could; every bit I wrote about Zi-O was another step in that relationship I built with the series, and I wanted to try and communicate that. The toku shows I end up loving most are rarely if ever the ones I love at first sight. Zi-O had loads of glaring flaws, and it's precisely because I learned with time to love the show *for* those flaws, as much as I did for its qualities, that I can say in the truest sense, that I love Zi-O. There have been Rider shows I became instantly enamored with for their "perfection", and that's ended in heartbreak before. But when one comes along that I can accept in its entirety -- good and evil; light and dark -- that's a show I'll always want to keep with me in the future.
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I rather enjoyed that Final Stage when I got around to watching it last year, by the way. You can only imagine the triumphantly excited OOOOHH~ I uttered when I became aware it was about Over Quartzer, Hiryuu, and Showa. Those are three of my favorite things! The only way it could've been better is if Jean made an appearance, so we could finally do that belated Kuuga arc!
Also, someone please remember to tell Die if that Special Event ever gets subbed. I watched that recently after being made aware of its existence through this thread, and I thought it was more fun and clever than the Final Stage proper. Lots of good silly antics wrapped around a tale focused on Sougo's existential angst after graduating school, showing a surprisingly strong grasp on how Zi-O's storytelling works at its best.
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