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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Kabuto
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01-15-2021, 06:50 PM
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Kamen Rider Die
There's some well-earned serenity at the end of the episode, with Tendou, with the
show
, exhaling after how insane the previous twenty-odd minutes were. It's the little way Tendou breaks the ice, mentioning how hungry he is after having a black-out fistfight and then watching his only lead to finding Hiyori get skewered by Worm Widow. It takes this serious episode and deflates it
just enough
to make room for reconciliation, you know? I really liked that.
It's a nice moment on a couple levels, for sure. I feel like, and keep in mind this is me reading into it
quite a bit
, but I feel like Tendou saying he could go for a bite is basically him doing a sort of
warm up
for admitting vulnerability to Kagami. Like he needs to make sure he get at least that much out without puking before he's ready to do the rest of that conversation. I don't think Tendou ever really voices thoughts like that unless he's being sarcastic, or trying to get people he doesn't like out of his hair. (Often both at once.) It comes off to me like Tendou is
trying
to admit he's scared and wants help like a normal person, but the best he can do is "I'm hungry." I honestly still think that's a pretty big step for him, though!
Plus it's just great because the script somehow managed to naturally land the episode right back at
food
, which is about as Kabuto as you can get.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kamen Rider Die
Yeah, Tendou's got some good The Rider System Has Gone Haywire anguished screams. Sometimes, when a show goes to that well, they take the VO out so that it seems like the dude inside is gone, really play up how inhuman a Rider can be. Here, they just have Tendou
screaming
, wall-to-wall, and it's horrifying. This show wants you to know that Tendou's
in there
, going crazy from pain.
I think my personal favorite part happens right
before
the screaming – the simple visual of Kabuto flopping onto the ground. It happens so abruptly, with him gently tipping over out of nowhere until he falls over completely, and combined with the unnerving sound in the background that gradually escalates in intensity, it really sets you up to believe that something very,
very
bad is about to go down. There's a wonderful build up
to
the screaming that makes it so much frightening. Everything is normal, and then suddenly it's very quiet, and then suddenly
it isn't quiet anymore
.
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A lot of it is the physicality of the actors inside them, the way KickHopper's head swings like the neck joint is loose, or the way they go from slouching to ALL KICKING or ALL PUNCHING so fast, like a switch gets flipped.
Oh, and speaking of their physicality, I need to mention this before I keep forgetting to work it into one of my posts about the episodes themselves: the series actually specifically differentiated Yaguruma and Kageyama as TheBee by basing the former's fighting style around kicks, while Kageyama was very blatantly a boxer. I don't know if that was done with the specific knowledge that KickHopper and PunchHopper were going to be a thing, or just a stroke of good luck they got to use, but it's a neat thing to go back and notice.
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