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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Zi-O
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05-19-2022, 03:59 PM
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Sh Ranger
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Since this is the end of the Heisei Era of Kamen Rider, I think it's appropriate to repost
My Complete Heisei Rider Ranking:
1) Faiz
2) Build
3) Fourze
4) Ghost
5) Wizard
6) Double
7) Kiva
8) Blade
9) Decade
10) Drive
11) Kabuto
12) Den-O
13) Ryuki
14) OOO
15) Zi-O
16) Hibiki
17) EX-Aid
18) Agito
19) Kuuga
20) Gaim
There's a lot of stuff I loved about Zi-O. The warmth of the characters, the clever concepts like Miriders, the most enjoyable Tertiary Rider ever, one of the best summer movies, Inoue coming back to write an arc. Honestly, if the show wasn't such a convoluted mess with one of the worst final arcs, I totally would've put it higher up! Similar to Hibiki, while there are shows I like more, Zi-O is still a show I feel strongly about, regardless of whether that's good or bad. Sure, I feel like it could've been a lot better. But like the moral of Over Quartzer, every show is different and yet they're all part of the same package. So I respect this show for celebrating the Heisei Era while also striving to be its own thing. I maintain that Zenkaiger is the best anniversary show overall though!
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Kamen Rider Die
KAMEN RIDER ZI-O: SERIES WRAP-UP
He
smiles a lot
, for a Rider, which was so weird at the start. It came off as flippant, which it sort of was. But then he just kept smiling, and it read as a port in a storm; the one thing you could be sure of was that Sougo was happy to see his friends, and he was happy to get another chance to go on an adventure.
There are times when Sougo smiles to feign happiness though, as Uncle Tokiwa scolded him for pretending everything is okay. It's Sougo's coping mechanism, to fool himself and others in to believing it will work out. His optimism has a dangerous side as well, like at the start when he shrugged off the demon king part of becoming a king, since he was more excited about the king part, something that Oma Zi-O was also oblivious too. However, Sougo eventually learned to express his emotions in a more healthy way, like when he refused apple pie due to him grieving for Yuko. I agree that Okuno has a very warm smile though!
(also that cobra plushie you linked to is a literal devil, so don't trust his smile too much!)
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DreadBringer
I kinda wish that Sougo takes both himself and Swartz to another world (like Fourze Cosmic's portal, Gaim's Helheim crack, or Ex-Aid's Stage Select) where Sougo (or Daguva and likely Swartz) can go all out using planet-busting levels of powers or something, even if the outcome would be still Ohma Zi-O curbstomping. It's a karmic death for Swartz to be killed by the very powerful creation he created to steal from, and after Swartz killed both his close friends.
Oh yeah, I remember you had some
creative ideas
about Oma Zi-O's potential. While his debut in the finale was awesome with how he 1-hit all those final bosses, I think the backdrop was pretty generic and not very regal like I'd expect from someone as powerful as him. Like how about taking the fight to that ancient looking place with the white pillars, where Fueki hosted the Sabbat?
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DreadBringer
Actually for Tsukuyomi it's both, she's later would be refered as "Alpina Tsukuyomi". Though other than status quo or not (Ryuki's like that as there were no time travel), even Sougo also didn't really relinquish his evil powers here though either like Shiro in Ryuki ending (making use of his power to revert the damages done by his war). Sougo makes use of his power to revert the damages done too and even granting him some personal benefit in giving himself friends on school based on previous friends (and enemies) by that. Sougo here didn't let the damages occur, by relinquishing his Ohma Zi-O power and didn't do anything or such.
I just looked that up and I'm not sure what's more surprising to me, that Tsukuyomi is now her surname (which means her parents in this world are also Tsukuyomi!), or that Alpina can actually be spelled in kanji! Thanks for the information.
The Sougo who created that world and the Sougo who lives in that world aren't the same Sougo though. New Sougo gets the personal benefit of living in that world with all his friends, while Our Sougo exists outside that timeline, the same way Kanzaki exists outside reality. But unlike Kanzaki, Sougo, in all of his iterations, is destined to become Oma Zi-O as long as he lives. It's not a power he can relinquish or run away from. The only thing he can decide about that is how he will use that power. In the case of the finale, that world was screwed due to all the paradoxes being escalated by Another Decade, to the point where Tsukasa admitted the best action was to destroy it, making it similar to Build's scenario. In Kanzaki's case, a lot of people died, but it wasn't a point of no return the way it was for Sougo. So that's why I support Sougo's decision, even though the world he created isn't exactly the way I would've made it.
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