DAMN THAT WAS ANKH?!

I really didn't realize until you pointed it out.

Anyway aside from the cool glowing lines of Faiz and just how chonky his equipment felt. This was another world that didn't really do much for me in interesting me in Faiz. So that's another one passed, at this point I wondered if I'd ever find like another series I'd want to watch like I did with Kiva. Well only time will tell as I continue to comment.

Anyway I enjoyed this one quite a bit at least in regards to Tsukasa, making Daiki the foil to him is good. Because you can really tell while he still has his very jerk qualities, he only really ever used them on Lucky Clover. I think this episode is a good one, purely because it basically sets up our new status quo.

Because well, you saw how Daiki acted this episode, especially at the end. He's going to be causing trouble for quite a while.

Diend, I don't like the suit too much, but I don't hate it. That being said I love the ability to summon other Kamen Riders. Especially given he can just summon any dang one he wants.

It really makes you wonder what kind of Decade Rider you'd even make for an OC you know, Decade's got the transforming into other Riders down, Diend's got summoning. Any Decade OC that only limits itself to two or does both feels like it's not really doing anything unique you know? I feel like you'd have to go really out there and make another one summon weapons or something.

It wouldn't be a tribute to Faiz without me concocting a wildly-dubious reading of the themes! Welcome home!

It's a little weird that these episodes even bothered with Lucky Clover as the antagonists, because, like, just have Ankh play Kusaka! Sure, he's not an Orphnoch, but I think it might've made for a more fun episode if Faiz High School was just a bunch of Riders fighting each other for questionable reasons. Kaixa as the bullying upperclassman, Delta as an entire club that has less members every scene... yeah, boy, they missed out on this story.

If there's one thing I want this thread to accomplish, it's bringing every fan together through a shared background... except me.

I think I just described it yesterday as "a gun that fires Kamen Riders at other Kamen Riders", and as soon as I made that connection, I liked it a lot more. Still nothing I want to own, but Kamen Rider-Firing Gun is a pretty hilariously great concept.

Yeah, this was a nice part that I didn't really touch on. Tsukasa's a guy that desperately wants to find a place where he fits in, a place where he makes sense. The idea of him feeling that connection with another photographer, a girl who's trying to express herself even in the face of bullying and harassment? That is a very nice thing for this story to make room for.

It would clearly be a delivery app that summoned all of the previous supporting cast members who worked at cafes.

And Treasure Sniper is also Decade's :lol

This is how I feel pretty much anytime one of these cameos comes up.

Only the ones that worked at cafes? Dang, and we so close to having a Rider who defeats foes with the power of Jean. :p

No spoilers, but if there's a Dark Decade? His first Kamen Ride is Jean.

Probably too late of a warning by this point, but I wanna use this time to give a short PSA about RiderTime's' subs, incase anyone is thinking of using them like I've been.

Now, I don't think they're bad per se. Having compared some lines with Die and En-chan's' use of the EarthlyScrubs, there are a handful of lines I actually like better in RT's' version.

The problem is that I am 100% convinced that they did not have a proofreader. Or much in terms of quality control.

There are typos all over the place, mostly in the form of words outright missing from sentences. And in the case of episode 11, the encoding was weird meaning that the subs weren't showing up and I had to fix it.

I really, really hope they go back and fix them up and release a V2 batch, because man, it's not making my getting through this season any easier.

An entire two-episode tribute and not one person does a single load of laundry. Do you even Faiz, bro?

I actually don't hate the high school concept for this world. It's a strong theme and gives the show a way to rework Faiz and Lucky Clover that captures some of the spirit of the conflict. We even get to see the belt change hands a few times. The whole thing still feels a bit flat, though.

I think any show was going to lose out by being Diend's debut. There's too much to juggle to let everything get room for focus and Takkun mk. 2 definitely drew the short straw. The first episode is all about Tsukasa, Lucky Clover, and Kaitou looking for Faiz while Not Mari talks about pictures and he's just this other guy in the background. Even rerunning the Takumi = Orphnoch story doesn't really give the character much to do as we see other people talking more about his dilemma than we really do seeing it play out.

Honestly, I wish they'd saved Diend for the Den-O episodes since that crew was getting a movie anyway and didn't need the series to be their sole appearance. Of course, that would take screen time away from Den-O shenanigans, though, and Toei likely wanted none of that.

As for Diend himself? Not a huge fan. Tokusatsu does the whole "thief who talks a big game but really has a good heart" thing a lot. It was a big part of Gokaiger, the main premise of Lupinranger, and it's literally happening on Ultraman Trigger right now. It leaves Daiki feeling very much like a stock character. I honestly like him more in his post-series appearances where he gets a bit more room to breathe on his own. The suit, meanwhile? I don't love it, but it grew on me, radiator face and everything.

Well, everyone’s already said what I wanted to say so I’ll just say I totally guessed Sh Ranger would be the guest for this (or failing that, MaskedRiderAsakura) and share the video for Ride the Wind (I’ve been holding onto it since Kiva’s episodes)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=usR36pAwAaw

Though I will say that Diend does demonstrate how the Final Form Ride gimmick can be used without the Rider being present.

Wow, that worked out perfectly in your Chicago time!

I loved the Faiz stuff in this arc. Really I did. I just think it could've been better if there was more time dedicated to it, instead of Diend. His blue eyes though, yeah, they don't stand out at all on his blue suit and you can only see them if you're actively looking for them.

I was about to bring that up, but Die moved on to the next point of discussion before I got a chance. I was hoping Inoue being the voice might have implied it was an insert for Decade.

You're just a passing through Kamen Rider in the World of TokuNation.

I thought Lupinranger was a pretty intriguing deconstruction of the phantom theme genre, with Patranger serving as the more conventional lawful good altruistic heroes to challenge their moral code. I agree that Diend and Gokaiger play it too straight though.

So far, I think everybody's been predictable except for DreamSword. I have no idea who could be doing Agito though, so I look forward to finding out.

Ride The Wind, man, such a great song! Not as much as I love Cyclone Effect and Supernova, but it's probably in the top 10 for me, at least. I figure me throwing that ranking out there this time would be less redundant than me just repeating how much I love Faiz.

Yeah, I wouldn't say I hate the high school concept. It think it has a ton of potential for Kamen Rider stories (I mean, Fourze!), and I think it's especially clever to try an apply it to arguably the most melodramatic and overheated series in Phase 1 Heisei. It's more how the 2-parter picked and chose stuff that didn't seem as relevant to the setting as other stuff might've been. Weird to do a high school setting without the Kiba/Takumi relationship, is maybe the main one for me.

Considering Kaitou ends up looking a lot like Ryutaros possessing Ryotaro, I feel like debuting Diend in a Den-O story might've been unexpectedly confusing, visually.

Ha ha, I wish I could say that was left in on purpose! Of all the timestamps I forgot to edit out, though! AMAZING.

That was my bad! Sorry!

I made some reference at the start of this thread, that I was going to be like Kamen Rider Decade over the course of this project, and I didn't realize how much I sort of already was? This has been a weird few months, and it's probably only going to get weirder.