[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Hey, it’s a Yuka spotlight episode! It’s a bit of a mixed bag!

So to sum it up from your takes, Yuka is overall, a people pleaser right? Her abusive backstory shapes her into 2 modes, the one where she puts the burdens on herself to please other people like by becoming what other people expect - to make people not hostile like they usually are to her, or her being a troubled from the trauma she received by killing people she perceived as bad - because obviously, all the hell those kind of people give. And it's ironic that you actually made an elaborate post about her, so maybe you did invest in her and this isn't a mixed bag? Also here Yuka, aka Crane Orphnoch's powers are displayed here, to create cutting wings, her finisher. And speaking about acting.... I don't know if acting must be all about goofy, or over-the-top, or larger than life, or laugh out loud, or in your face and wide-angle lenses, or other kinds of that. People usually cite that as bad acting or no personality, but it can be just the people mindset that they just throw that term to those they think “this person doesn’t stimulate me”, or “this person doesn’t interest me”. Also a term to say someone is not extroverted, that because they can’t figure their personality, it doesn’t exist. A rather lazy and egocentric view of other people tbh, and a very superficial judgement. And that there's no such thing as " no personality". The person refered as such may be a little hidden if they are very shy, but they have a personality.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Because I thought the rest of the story was pretty much aces. Kusaka has ramped up from last episode’s Maybe Not The Best Guy to this episode’s 67% More Weaselly.

Oh yeah, edging slightly into Kusaka's real infamy in KR fandom here. Kusaka seems to have a special vendetta against Orphnochs.... just like total racism upon them. Or that he didn't know yet that Yuji is an Orphnoch?! Means even more vile then! Takumi is horrible in an usually secondary Rider way, that he's a morally grey anti-hero (means he has good side deep inside).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I mean, I guess you see it a little at the end, him being a bully, once Takumi picks sides in the Faiz Fight at the end.

Takumi is just as dumbfounded as the audience here (especially if they followed during Faiz' airing era), to see the totally different point of view regarding 2 well known factions. A Kamen Rider that is a total asshat (though Ryuki has promoted this), and a monster who has humanity. Both Takumi and the audience are so twisted by the unusual perceptive of tokusatsu series. That the world isn't simply black or white, or that stereotypes (monsters are always 100% pure evil) aren't always a fact. Oh and also the main protagonists being not the most upstanding, but this isn't brought up here (Takumi is the one on dilemma! w̶a̶ ̶o̶w̶a̶r̶a̶n̶a̶i̶). And like I said above, Kusaka has a vendetta against Orphnochs to beat up any of them brutally, unconditionally. And even if Takumi observes Yuka, the usual perceptive still exists in others, the others were dumbfounded why Takumi was fighting against Kusaka to save a monster, so they still see monsters as deserved to get beaten up, even sadistically like how the audience usually, probably because the end justiφ’s the means.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

He’s also FIGHTING. That Faiz Fight at the end! Man!

Kaixa's counterpart of Auto Vajin, SB-913V Side Basshar appears here! But yeah sometimes the Riders' human form performance isn't always consistent to their Rider fighting like here for Faiz holding against Kaixa. Then again, AFAIK there were few showings of what Riders can do in human form (some non-main Riders are the ones to get that, like Alain before becoming Necrom).

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Part of me wants to start faiz so I can read along with this thread, the other part knows I'd be cringing and wincing a lot from the miscommunication, and no one having any info, and that same part also knows that I can't speak Japanese, so I'd get real confused by the mis-translations.

To save time... probably you can watch this, with 2x speed . That's what I do actually. There will be certain series that I won't participate while Die's watching it too.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

As for the miscommunication... I can't speak for anything that happens later, but in fifteen episodes the most I've seen of miscommunications is some minor details in the Yuka/Keitaro scenes, and that shit is highly debatable.

I've seen more people's views, and someone more insightful do say that the first 13 (or 15 in this case?) episodes of Faiz were actually so good, and that the infamy comes out later. I don't know how will you respond to those, but probably people make it out as the bad things are the whole series and ignoring the good parts like that.