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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Agito
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02-17-2020, 01:03 PM
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Kamen Rider Die
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Location: Chicago, IL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Androzani84
Well since you’re about to move onto Ryuki and I’m about to have space in my schedule for a show I can watch 5 episodes of a week, I’ve decided to start on Ryuki next week. (I have the space now, but I reserved it for another show months ago).
Neat! I'll be looking forward to your thoughts on it!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Fish Sandwich
You definitely aren't wrong. I don't know if you know this already, but the name "Agito" was chosen in the first place because in Latin it means "to set in motion". I'm pretty sure it's the root of the word "agitate"? Basically, to provoke a reaction in something. Agito's Japanese Wikipedia page gives "awakening" (覚醒) as a translation, which likewise covers it pretty well.
This is Heisei Kamen Rider, so there's actually like two more meanings behind the name, but "change" was
absolutely
the big one.
I didn't make that connection, with agitate, but that makes a lot of sense. The Agitos introduce a kind of friction, disruption. Thanks for the linguistic backup!
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Originally Posted by
FreshToku
I don't entirely agree Scorpion biting it was much better than the usual example of killing off someone just to make the hero even more sad and mad (as if Ryou was lacking in that department already...), but I get that it was probably so we'd feel the stakes even more when it came to Kana. That moment when other Tsugami comes in to grab her hand, desperately telling Shouichi not to let go? That's a scene that has stuck with me since the first time I watch the show oh so long ago.
Actually the whole episode's best moment has stuck with me pretty well, including Shouichi's transformation at the end where he heroically declares how he'll protect everybody... and the fact that they play the exact same clip of Kana calling out his name two times within close proximity of each other.
I mean, I would not fight anyone who thought that Scorpion's death was unnecessary. Ryou's loss is kind-of hilarious (on his
birthday
), but that's a dude who did not need more heartbreak, and it sucks to make Scorpion's story all about Ryou's pain. I'm pretty much okay with it on the level of serving as a counterpoint to Shouichi's version of events, and that part of the story gives Kana plenty of agency. Even the men at the end of the story are like, "You have to decide what you want to do next, but we'll be here to support you."
But, yeah, Truegami showing up to tell Shouichi to never let go? Awesome. Just
nailed
that emotional climax. It's a soaring end to that whole journey, for all three of those characters, and it felt really earned.
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Originally Posted by
Sunred
Kamen Rider Die reaching the final episode of Agito: AWWWW YEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Kamen Rider Die some time later in the future after seeing episode 6 of Ryuki: YO WHAT THE #@%$!
One more to go! And then a break! And then Ryuki! Thanks for hanging out for these write-ups!
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