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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Hibiki
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10-31-2020, 06:56 PM
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Kurona
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Kamen Rider Die
There is nothing quite like someone eviscerating something you've enjoyed and then ending it with "I'm glad you found something to like in it, though!" Rhetorically, it's like getting your face punched so hard that you're knocked on your ass, and then that same person helping you up off of the ground.
happens all the time here but alright
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So, obviously, this is going to be a real Your Mileage May Vary rebuttal, but, wow, did not have that experience with this one
at all
. Doing this story through the lens of Todoroki and Hinaka's relationship made perfect sense to me, considering how Heightened they've always been as characters, and
specifically
how Extra Heightened those two are when it comes to their dating. There's a moment in the beginning, after Todoroki completely ruins their date, where Hinaka confesses to Kasumi that, y'know, Todoroki's got a lot of weird anxiousness to him, and that's not great to date. It's a little space to explore the idea of what happens when you care about someone, but they're not right for you. The tension of that runs through everything Todoroki and Hinaka go through (his lack of focus, his depression, his More Than Usual amounts of anxiety), and it keeps things pretty relatable, as far as I was concerned.
As for Todoroki seeming too weird in this one... again, I'm not really seeing it? It's more of a comedy couple of episodes than, say, the ones where he doesn't want to be a drummer, but nothing in this one felt out of character for Todoroki. Todoroki's always been a guy that gets in his own way, that lets his anxiety and enthusiasm sabotage his success. That's pretty much what he does in this story?
All that is technically true but, like... to continue the food theme; in much the same way that a mild basic beefburger with sauce and a triple-decker hamburger with bacon, lettuce and mayonaisse both have tomato sauce, so therefore they're the same thing. Todoyama and Hinaka were definitely some of Hibiki's more expressive and heightened characters but they were never anywhere near this level -- it's as if you took Jean from Kuuga, who had a couple jokes and a few moments of comic relief; and wrote him like you would Shunpei from Wizard. There's maybe the same theme of both being comedic characters but it's nowhere same the thing. Hibiki's had comedic episodes before and, again, they're just nothing like this. It's a completely different show and cast of characters, and I'm not convinced the writer knows what he's doing with any of them.
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