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Also my thoughts on this scene: "A Subaru Impreza wagon!"

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Also, you think it's hard to say things about these episodes? Imagine being me not having anything to contribute about you saying things about these episodes! This is a killer stretch of the show and the best I've got right now is meaningless trivia!

Trivias are so random and unpredictable that I actually lament of not giving them much.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I don't really think you can. This is a plot-heavy episode with a lot of ground to cover. Ren gets the tense parts, Asakura gets the exciting parts, Kitaoka/Ore get the funny parts, there's really not much you can give to Yui and Shinji. Most times the story serves them, this time they had to serve the story.

I'm not mad about it, though, since very few characters on this show are merely functional for the plot. (Mostly Yui, and not even always.) It's cool for Shinji and Yui to take a backseat on this one.

Yeah, not saying you're mad but still really want to know about your thoughts here (and this reply gives more than what I expect). Because the others you mentioned here can have smaller screentime... I guess for those 2... probably not that significant in this, they take the warming part.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Yeah. Shoichi, Shinji, Takumi, and Kenzaki all had very similar looks. When I first watched Faiz and we started out focusing on a different character I thought it was cool that we had a different aesthetic; then Takumi showed up and I knew we'd found our main Rider.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I wonder which of the two leads on this show was considered more trendy, though: Shinji or Ren? Even for 2002, I feel like Shinji's long-haired look was falling out of fashion. (I mean, Ichijou had long hair on Kuuga just a couple years earlier, and that's the squarest dude alive.) I wonder if Ren was seen as being more modern, more fashionable. That hair is more what I think of when I think of "early 2000s Japan", for whatever that's worth.

Not finding Kenzaki too similar. I think Shouichi can be differentiated more easily due to his more "mature" face, but Shinji and Takumi did caught me off guard several times. Also if you talk about Shinji and Shouichi being similar (in looks here) that reminds me of the "Shinji being similar to Shouichi" topic back in the beginning of the thread. How come there aren't any joke of "Shouichi stumbles upon Ryuki world and gets a third identity as Shinji Kido" yet?!

For the 2nd one I prefer Ren's style of hair.