[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It's obviously in character yeah for Keitaro to be taken advantage by others because of his dream. But man... that'd mean Keitaro could make for a bad parent (cmiiw). If it's like that, Keitaro can be the kind to spoil his child to no end, which actually would make the child grow up to be terrible and likely won't happy because spoiled one would never be satisfied for ever.

He would be an incredibly bad parent!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

With her behavior to Keitaro, I wonder how her dead parents live with her.

Well, the flashbacks certainly make it seem like Keiko's just having a real tough time of it since her mom got hospitalized. In those flashbacks, she's a happy, thoughtful kid. She's having a tough time processing her mom's amnesia, and feeling abandoned, so everything she does to Team Faiz is because of that. (Even her drawings are meaner than they used to be!) Once she gets her mom back, she probably won't be as terrible to people. Probably!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Did you talk about the Mari knowing about Soeno being a detective as a misunderstanding/melodrama?

Oh, I just meant that it's a little convenient for the detective to be loudly shouting Keiko's name just as Mari's around to hear it. It's a little clunky.

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Originally Posted by Actar

Ah! Can't believe I've just stumbled upon this thread! Kamen Rider Faiz is definitely one of my top favorite Rider series along with Gaim and W and I'm extremely glad that you're liking what you're watching thus far! Hope you'll give the movie a shot as well as I personally think it's one of the best standalone movies in the franchise.

Hey, thanks for finding this thread! Paying all of that money to upgrade my TokuNation account really helped get some eyeballs on this thing. I'm only really budgeted for Xtreme right now, but fingers crossed I can afford bumping up to GoldXtreme next month. (Things don't really start ramping up until you get out of the free Lost level, but that's a whole other thread.)

I definitely plan on watch the movie and the HBV. I don't want to miss something cool!

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Originally Posted by Actar

As for the series itself, I can understand why it's divisive, and even agree with some of the points (most of which has to do with the plot in the latter half). Regardless of the plot, I just love these characters that are so real and grounded and it is the characters that make the series for me. Humanizing the monsters is something that Kamen Rider really doesn't do enough. Of course, the suits, action and Rider Gear are all top-notch and are among the best in the franchise.

How great is Team Orphnoch?! Those three could anchor a show of their own, which is something I can't really say about any other group of Kamen Rider adversaries. ("Adversaries".) I think what's makes them so strong is that you could pretty easily tell their story without Faiz. They don't really care about what he's up to. If Yuuji sees Faiz out kicking Orphnoch ass, he's going to mix it up, but Team Orphnoch isn't sitting around plotting against Faiz.

Having so much time spent on their motivations, their fears, and having it mostly be unrelated to belts and heroes and smiles and whatever, it leads to incredibly deep characters.

Thanks again for finding this discussion!