[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

For me the whole thing was worth it for Shinji "I dedicated so much time, effort and energy and went through so many possible odds PURELY SO I COULD PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE" Kido

That was a good part (the bookend fight scenes are legitimately cool), but it felt so minor to what was a twenty-odd minute story. The payoff just wasn't worth it for me.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

I actually really like this episode it a clip show but it dosen't feel lazy to me. Our new Rider litterly have the power to bend time giving a really strong debut. Phus facilitating a in universe explanation for why where seeing all of this again. And Shinji response torwards all of this and actually landing a hit on the guy was pretty hype. (Then again I'm a sucker for time travel so lots of bias here)

I really really really hated that all of this was something that wasn't about Shinji at all. The entire story is just so Yui won't hate Shiro, and that totally bugs me. It was a status quo they established in the previous episode. (I'm assuming that's what the ending is saying. If I'm wrong, then this clip show is doing even less work, and I'm probably madder at it.) This all feels like an unnecessarily long path to undo something that just happened.

Worse, it doesn't really do anything with Shinji reliving the timeline. He can't change anything, but he gets just enough flashes to try and change things, but he can't change anything. Past the first scene, for me, there's an enormous amount of frustration built into the premise. That's by design, but I hate that design. The frustration's there to validate the catharsis of Strike Vent To Impossible Opponent, but, again, I just didn't feel like that payoff was sufficient. I might've if the secret of why this all had to happen didn't completely suck (Shiro keeps using big moves to make Yui feel better, it's completely his thing, and I still hate it), but I think it did, so it wasn't working for me.

Like, at all.