[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'm running out of unique ways to say this, but this episode is once again Ishida's work, and if that spotlight bit with Mari doesn't prove it, nothing will. I think moments that extreme are basically him taking a "boring" scene as a challenge? The episodes of Agito where Shouichi first gets his memories back were him too, which, even though you liked all that stuff a lot less, means the color-coded plot threads was something he came up with, too. No idea why the camerawork itself had to be so shaky, but it does show how outside the box he's willing to go, for better or for worse.

Anyway, Kaixa's "introduction". I love it. It's hard to call it this coming right after Ryuki, but Faiz is kind of THE subversive Rider show to me, and I can't think of many things that symbolize that better than the brand new, amazing cool hero you should buy toys of dying three times right away. Faiz gets so much mileage out of treating the belts as pieces of equipment anyone can use. Seeing Kaidou as Faiz, and random nobodies as Kaixa, all of this stuff has such a novelty factor, and legitimately makes the story more interesting on top of that. It's awesome.

Thank you for reminding me of that shaky-ass Agito episode. My head just started hurting by remembering it!

I cannot tell you how hard I laughed when, just after his totally cool move of slicing the villain in half, not even looking back as the monster bursts into flames... Kaixa immediately shorts out and has a seizure, smash cut to opening credits. Like, that's the move you'd do on a parody of Kamen Rider shows. Just unreal.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

The fact that the people using Kaixa in this episode were all good people should tell you what kind of person the actual user will be if you know what trope they’re invoking.




If you haven’t figured it out, here it is https://www.google.com/url?client=in...obc-gDxZXuZ1su

Oh no!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I think you misunderstood the three lives thing. Murakami was addressing Mr. J specifically. It's his signature ability as Crocodile.

I definitely did misunderstand that scene. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Yeah, this is exactly what I've been waiting to talk about. Rina mentioned that the first Kaixa Gear user was Takamiya. It's very likely that the Kaixa seen at the end of Episode 10 was that guy. The scene stands out as weird when you rewatch it with knowledge of how Kaixa Gear affects the user. He henshined, spectated Faiz's fight with Snail and promptly died! That's a lot of dedication just to show off a cool suit.

So, my theory is that there are a lot of other kids shown in that class reunion photo, and about half of them died testing out the Kaixa belt. Each one putting on the belt, Henshin, Error, ash... and then the next kid's like This Time Is Bound To Work. Eventually one kid probably took so long to Error out that they went into battle with it, and that's probably what they'd call "the first user". (Also, they probably don't want to tell Mari that they killed a half-dozen of her childhood friends and family.)

There's almost no version of the Team All-New kaiXa-Men backstory that isn't these kids watching their friends die and then, like, excitedly following in their footsteps.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Now that we've seen Kaixa in action, destroying one of Mr. J's three lives, it's time to talk about the suit and Gear functionality. Kaixa is just as high tech, cool and simple as the impressive Faiz suit. The main differences are chi instead of phi, double the Photon Streams and the Photon Blood is yellow instead of red. Functionally, Kaixa is stronger than the basic Faiz and his Kaixa Blaygun has more configurations than the Faiz Edge.

I mentioned before that Faiz Gear can be used by anybody but of course that's not entirely true as only a few people are compatible. Kaixa Gear really does work for anybody but you'll die if you're not compatible. Due to generating double the Photon Blood, this Gear is twice as demanding on the user which means you really need to be compatible. The error feature on Faiz Gear can be seen as a safety lock, preventing Mari and Keitarou from accidentally killing themselves. Kaixa Gear doesn't care about your safety.

Neat! Thanks!