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Originally Posted by Annuga

It's not even being quiet, he's wiggling his arms left and right to defend himself, when honestly a sinister, low effort looking single hand would get the point across much better, it looks like he's putting some effort into it or being flashy, but that as a result is less creepy

It's much more "How not to summon a demon lord" in the way they did it, which carries an emphasis of Oma Zi-O might have more to him than it seems. Not crappy. More bravado and over done intentionally. How they did it was perfect. As we learn more, aspects of this episode should come more into focus for why different things had to be done certain ways. As Sougo said, he hates fighting. That aspect of hating fighting and potentially hating confrontation comes through in future Oma Zi-O too in body language.

What's also interesting is we're hearing he's an evil overlord, but not what makes him evil besides fighting back to everyone attacking him. How did he destroy the future, why. What set him on this path of bravado and ego. As she noticed early on, he's not like past Sougo. So what caused the difference, what event caused it. He seems to have intentionally left certain people around to do what they do. Very cyclical.

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Originally Posted by OptionZero

This x100
Hope they flesh this out, the "I wanna be king" part was the most jarring disconnect

Which is what sets up the entire story and innate nature of the show. So they really couldn't change either of those things because they were needed as they were for the innate nature of the show. Besides how it'd ruin the psychology of the show too. That's such a false notion that people that go through hardship end up hating the world. Privileged, spoiled or selfish people do that, not actual people that endure real hardships(not counting some traumas, but this is a kid's show). Like I said before it comes down to parenting, and Sougo's uncle seems to be doing something right overall. He's got a little bit of an "Iroh" sense to him. But when you really look at tragedies that have happened, the catalyst is pretty much 99% of the time some form of privilege or toxicity being whispered in their ear, and not about actual harsh life aspects or socio-economic class. That's a western "privilege" myth that "bullied poor people are violent" and is perpetuated as such. Usually it's almost always some mix of privilege, ego, or ignorance/toxicity. Things Sougo seem without, so his 'overlord' aspect must come from something else. (Possibly 50 years of dealing with people like that. 20 years of dealing with it and I'm already pleading for a meteor to hit Earth on some days. Well, if it'd only wipe out the mean and willfully ignorant people at least.)

Same as the build cameo sets up some concepts about multiverse/time travel and acted as the foreshadow to Another Rider Build and the spill over into next week and the setup of the Faiz Shot. It was a brisk setup pace, but it kept the show nicely engaging and waiting for the next episode to keep audiences hooked.

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Originally Posted by OptionZero

LOVING the Another - Rider madness. SIC vs SHF delights me to no end

Glad to hear it. Makes for some fun stuff to see definitely. The contrast works wonders, and when Sic does this series, it's going to be interesting to see them Sic the another rider forms. It'd be a sic of a toei sic of a sic. So three times the SIC.