[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And they’re really trying in this episode. Takumi tries his hand at being a problem solver, and it’s really entertaining. I feel like he’s the friend that can’t ever listen to your problems, he has to give you a solution. Sometimes you just want to vent, but he’s like Just Do What I Tell You And Your Problems Are Solved. Takumi is… not the friend you vent to.

Just like what you said about his fighting style to just getting out of the problem ASAP. Become addicted? Probably all of this are just peeling off Takumi's insides; he is aloof to others, only to reveal that he thinks it might be bad for them to get close, he wants to avoid Faiz as possible, only to reveal that he's in weird state after it's taken away, now he wants to stay away from problem, but now he tries to solve them. Probably must be that he realized that if a problem is left out, it'll lead into bigger problems so that he solves it instead with the fastest way possible (just do what I tell you), like without venting. Takumi's the practical type? Like him who just wants to get shit done ASAP, so just do the practical thing outside, with no regards on their inside. His own way to stay away from problems, by solving a problem ASAP before it grows, realizing the situation he's in. By that he (and Mari) are just being blunt to Keitaro that now they take the turn to be the one who calls him..... scum. Keitaro's problem of "one-woman-two-relationship-thing" is the part of the show's "misunderstandings" though, but Mari and Takumi's reaction to him is kind of in their character?

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

That domestic stuff, Team Faiz doing a scene together, the show did some fun stuff with it I thought.

So Kaixa is the way to move the story forward. With appearence of second Rider revealing Mari's family and the deal with one of the Smart Brain's higher ups. Mari getting the bet from that father.... that's already revealed before though. But peaking of the other orphans, it's a relief here that all of them also know regarding the belts, not only Mari to get informations. What makes the light automatically highlights Mari during the exposition at the house?! With you tolerating the part where others might find it weird part, so you normally has a problem with expositions? Like in this series, when Yuji and Yuka visits Smart Brain.

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It… I sort-of don’t care? I don’t know how much I’m supposed to care, though. I can’t tell if the show’s screwing around, or trying to do something serious. Again, half the group gets bumped off right away, and the show hasn’t started to get at Mari’s feelings on any of this (it is just so much exposition you guys), so I’m left trying to invest in a group of kids who get immediately murdered. Tough ask!

That said, I don’t know that I want the show to do more with these characters or this plot. I’m good with it as a gag, a parody of Secret History tropes. Trying to expand it, or make it more central to Mari’s story… no thanks? I mean, I’d love to regret saying that, to have the show find some angle on it that impresses me. In this episode, it just didn’t click for me.

This isn't Mari's surprise... you gotta pay attention to her adoptive dad's, and standardly, Smart Brain's aims, and also above, the mechanics of the belts, like the malfunctions. It's more about worldbuilding in general, the mechanics in Faiz' universe. Stay tuned for like... something surrounding the characters. The orphan groups are supposed to be made with as much position as the monster victims, or, you know, like Yuji's cousin or Yuka's bullies at the beginning of the series, they are just the non-evil ones compared to them. The only one you shoulld pay attention is the name they mentioned, Masato Cucksaka.... uhh Kusaka.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And, man, there ain’t much else in this episode!

Well Yuji explains it a bit regarding Kaido's nature to Yuka and not about it's being her. It's unknown if this is "misunderstandings" too, but Yuka should also notice that Kaido is also abrasive to others.... or she thought that Kaido treating the first-year better as an indication of her making him angry? There's something I want to know regarding Yuka saying she "likes" Kaido, despite being another one to hostile to her (on the outside) in her life.... or that she has someone she already fell in love with.

A sense of backfire in Lucky Clover and Smart Brain that the belts are made to protect the King, but now is used among some people to kill Orphnoch instead. This is the true nature of Smart Brain in Smart Lady egging other Orphnochs to be evil and kill humans, to prevent them being obstacles to Smart Brain's evil plans, especially regarding the nature of the belts. And Yuji you're not evil, but saying you would never attack humans.... Chie and Yuji's cousin: Are we a joke to you? Were they only talking about Mr. J who gets 3 lives? Also other than that, when Kaixa defeated him first before, he turned completely into dust, how did he come back? The dust reforming his body again? I know Crocodile Orphnoch is a major character, but I wonder the Orphnoch's body system.