[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Orphan Daddy here making his appearance with that exact same Mirror World sound effect (or at least something really similar), and immediately telling Kusaka to 'Tatakae!' was very surreal. Just imagine that he handed Kaixa a Survive Card and it wouldn't be much more out of place...

I thought I was being pranked. I'm like, did Inoue not watch any episodes of Ryuki besides his own? Did he not know that a disembodied voice commanding people to fight was basically the main character of the show? Like, it's funny, but it is enormously distracting. I honestly couldn't focus on what Orphan Daddy was saying because I was just thinking about whether or not I actually heard someone tell a Kamen Rider to TATAKAE.

It would be like if midway through Ghost, you heard someone shouting TIRE KOUKAN as he used the Enzo Ferrari Eyecon in the middle of a huge revelation. Like, it'd be awesome, but there's no way I'm paying attention to the next twenty seconds of TV show.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

For today's casting trivia, Orphan Daddy is played by the late Koji Naka, who had formerly played mentor figure Master Kaku on Dairanger. He passed away in 2015, the same year as Yuuji's actor, Masayuki Izumi.

Neat! And sad!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Given what I’ve heard about Inoue not getting along with Yasuko Kobayashi, I can’t help but wonder if the Rabbit Orphnoch’s name (Yoshio Kobayashi) and horrific death are a coincidence or a take that.

Oh, golly, I hope not. That'd be a bummer.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Also, we learn that the third rider gear is designated “Delta”. Expect him to show up soon.

Yeah, I sort-of figured! Exciting!

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Originally Posted by Sunred

YES. I mean I kinda dozed off during the middle of the show but boy does that theme song get a person upbeat. Kamen Rider Eternal really did that song justice.

Everything about that theme song is designed to get you hyped for a adventure program. Perfectly designed. But I'd expect nothing less from Eternal!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Oh boy, here we go again. Yuka isn't spiteful enough to sabotage Kaido's love for Mari. She just wants what's best for him. You've got it backwards. Yuka isn't trying to destroy Kaido/Mari, she's trying too hard to make it happen. She's projecting her own desire on to Mari to understand why such an infallible guys keeps getting rejected and concludes that the only thing better than being his girlfriend is being his wife. From her perspective, she would agree to marry Kaido if he proposed to her, so Mari should agree as well. It doesn't work since it's too much escalation and she fails to consider that maybe her idolization of Kaido isn't universally shared by all girls.

Yuka's suggestion may have damaged Kaido's chance but she didn't do it intentionally! That's why she was watching from behind the wall, waiting for Mari to finally reciprocate his love and annoyed when Kaido is rejected once more. She thinks she's trying to do Mari a favor by giving her what she would want and feels that Mari is being ungrateful and doesn't realize how great Kaido is. It's the same when Mari calls him an idiot, Yuka can't see how anybody could fault him.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but in Episode 24, Yuka slowly smiles as she watches Mari scream at Kaido that he's an idiot while attacking him with flowers. I definitely feel like she set Kaido up!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

His eyebrows are so expressive that the Kaixa manga caricatured them to resemble an X. I call them Kaixabrows!

Perfect! Love it!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

He doesn't want to lose his friends in Team Orphenoch even if he won't admit it.

I just love how last place Kiba and Yuka are for Kaido. He's basically lost everything, and they're what's left, so okay fine. It's such a perfectly Faiz emotional climax. What on another show would be a stirring declaration of friendship and togetherness is just I'm Less Terrible At Being With These Nerds Than I Am At Everything Else.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I guess I'll be the first to mention this as well but the last piece of Kaixa Gear, the Kaixa Pointer, dramatically fell through the ceiling in to Kaixa's possession. Unlike Shot, Pointer has a unique design shaped like binoculars. Functionally, it's the same as Faiz Pointer but twice as strong!

When I saw Kaixa's new gear, and I saw that it was double the barrels of Faiz's, all I could think of was Tarn from Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. He's such a Megatron fanboy that he has two fusion cannons. I definitely said this out loud during Kaixa's finisher:

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

My top 5 Heisei KR theme songs are:

5) Warera Omou Yueni Warera Ari
4) Justifaiz
3) NEXT LEVEL
2) Life IS Showtime
1) Be The One

The Ghost theme song is one that really didn't work for me, until it all of a sudden did. Snuck up on me for sure. Good list!