the plot of hibiki is that if you camp well enough your dad will love you

Agito is about one man's quest to plant the best vegetables

I've watched Faiz and I still couldn't sum up what it's about in a sentence.

The plot of W is two boyfriend's' quest to find out who keeps giving everyone magic drugs.

faiz is about why you dont move in with the first people you meet

Honestly, Faiz is about Assimilation Vs Independence, and the ways people excluded from society navigate that spectrum.

Faiz is about Fish Sandwich staring holes into your skull until you like it. Ghost, too!

Faiz is about Delta's quest to retire from being awesome.

Wow, uh, I think I'm legitimately upset that this is in Hibiki? Yonemura isn't exactly a writer I have it out for or anything (if you thought the 999/1000th episode two-parter from OOO was funny, that was him too), but just... oh man. This moment reeks of a writer who couldn't quite fully understand the show he was making a script for.

Takatera made this show in part as a sort of reaction to the trend Kamen Rider had fallen into of being about attractive young men in a battle royale – a trend he was not particularly fond of. This is pretty evident by how Hibiki pulls things in such an opposite direction. There's no infighting among the Oni during the first stretch of the show, and the Oni themselves are a bit older and a lot more mature and composed than Riders had been the previous few years. Heck, even to the retool's credit, they didn't immediately start forcing wedges in-between the main Riders or anything. So to throw this moment in there like this... I mean, I'm sure the basis was that Zanki is the gruff, cool old guy of the show who would "logically" be all about tough love, but it's reducing this show's cast to the behavior of those emotionally volatile younger characters from a show like Faiz, which is probably not a series that should be popping into your head while watching Hibiki. It's completely valid melodramatic writing (I adore Ryuki, Faiz, and Blade!), but it simply does not belong here.

There's still a back half to this for him to redeem himself (you know, hypothetically), but right now it's looking like Yonemura's Hibiki is to Inoue's as Inoue's Kuuga is to Arakawa's. And Inoue's Hibiki is already arguably an inferior copy of other writers' work!

Great, the characterization in this episode is so wildly off-base, it's affecting Die's ability to remember his own catchphrases. Oh no!

"Faiz" is a really funny way to spell Wizard. :p

It's something that I genuinely laughed at, 'cause I love that cinematography, and then laughed harder at when I realized it actually happened in an episode of Hibiki. It could not have been any more off-base if it had been Hibiki punching Asumu.

("Oh no!" is only when it's a spoiler. Production team credits aren't really something I consider a spoiler!)

Yeah, this is the crux of why I really hate this arc of the show. I get that Kamen Rider is a boy's franchise/toyline, but at this point it's record with giving women anything approaching equal footing is abysmal. We're at three female Riders with a mortality rate of 100% and the main premise of the last one is to tell Akira that this job isn't for her, either. I'm not going to discredit Inoue by saying that he was being intentionally sexist here, but it's a really bad look and it's part of a negative trend that the show wouldn't break out of until Wizard.