[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by catwhowalks

There's definitely a bit of a culture bias blinding them to the disconnect. And it's not entirely as contradictory as you think. If never see your own family, found family is all you have. What we see here is the writers inadvertantly telling us about how they grew up and what they see as normal. Found family is more reliable than real family, because one is with you no matter what, and the other is obligated by cultural norms to abandon you the second a job opportunity shows up.

Ha ha, god, or what they're really telling us is how they became like their parents: stories about finding companionship and solace only in your coworkers. All these Rider and Sentai and Ultra teams, depending on one another for all of their emotional needs, while blood relations are either dead or so absent as to be hypothetical. (The sole exceptions are blood relations who are also coworkers.)

God, what a nightmare. Everyone who works on toku needs therapy real bad!