[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I think I never had any particular issues with the Unknown for being just 'the force of evil our hero fights' and nothing more because the show never really played them up as being more than that. The focus from the beginning to the end had always been about our the protagonists developed around that stuff and around each other. Plus I've seen 'god wants to destroy all life' in enough JRPGs that I didn't really need any more elaboration to that story.

I guess it's just that I've seen enough Kamen Rider shows nail the big emotional moments and the episode-to-episode superhero stuff that it's hard to not feel frustrated when a show doesn't. It's not really what this show was trying to do, it was way more about the connections between characters, but it still felt weird to me when the show couldn't seem to make that part of the story interesting.

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Anyhow, it was fun reading your various thoughts once again. I'm sure it takes quite a bit of effort to articulate what these shows do for you in a way that's both accurate to how you feel and also meaningful to share, so I think you deserve props for having kept at it so far.

Thanks! And, uh, it's not that tough, actually. I'll have a couple things rattling around my head while I watch an episode, and then it all gets vomited out onto the boards. There is, uh, not a lot of structure or planning. I'm glad that people want to talk about it after I say weird things about Kamen Rider!