[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It's not that I thought they'd get along, but I thought the story would be about them not getting along. It's completely not about them at all, as a team. It's them getting chased together, but it's a story that's only for Kusaka's benefit.

Yeah actually that. They wouldn't get along, but it could be that to you (admittedly yeah speaking for you here because Kusaka's not infamous without reason) this seemingly is like the standard relationship of primary and secondary Rider where they get along and build relationship and companionship by acting like enemies, such as taking potshots or something.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

This one, it’s like lipstick on a pig.

For Ryusei Cram School, even on much further extent than the likes of Mari, the likes of Kusaka seemingly gets along fine with each of them, the only place Kusaka seemingly finds commonality of. Then again, Kusaka's the soap-opera manipulator type (like those in Yuji and Yuka's backstory), which includes being two-faced. It's unknown if Kusaka genuinely treats them as his friends or at the end he doesn't value them at all just like to others (obviously other than Mari, albeit he's acting inappropriate to her). What interests me currently is what shit will Hanagata pull out, other than helping them get their belts back previously and overwhelming Takuma.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Pretty great lipstick, though!

But Houjou's actual character name has been mentioned several times. The other informations were if others joining Lucky Clover is a good or bad thing, the dilemma of Lucky Clover must have 4 members to be well, lucky and succeed (the reason of them losing the belts again), and about the others except probably Kageyama (though she's the sadistic type) not accepting the inclusion of others. I didn't expect that Kitazaki, one of the most famous Faiz characters, still don't appear yet, even longer than Ouja (debuted in ep. 18). So this episode reveals Takumi's good side, he tolerates those similar to him more like other nekojitas. Keitaro wants to tag along with the other main casts... yet he wants to hire more part-timers to help him out, which seems contradictory of him? The former would mean him leaving Kikuchi cleaning to dust to tag along with others, the latter would mean him prefering Takumi, Mari, and Kusaka staying and help him out.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s all so purposeful, finding a way to let us know that this isn’t just a more powerful monster, but a killer that we haven’t previously had to contemplate. This isn’t a funny monster, this is an inhuman beast. It’s taking Faiz, the funny show about jerks, and making it into an episode of Kuuga.

The biggest bodycount of Orphnoch so far, the one played up just like standard MOTW. With the monster just attacking the area full of civilians as usual type of them, really, like Kuuga's one where Biran slaughtering civilians on a ferry (Chouno one). He's the one Lucky Clover is considering to join albeit a showy one? He did have a quirk about burning origamis in a dark area.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I got a little disappointed at the way the big Fighting Score came up after Kaixa ran after the Drop Bear Orphnoch. (What in the hell was it doing on top of a wall?) I thought they’d go the whole episode without non-diegetic music, and I was so ready to knock points off for ruining it. But they did it so they could drop it all out again. Kaixa rounds the corner and sees the tunnel. He freezes. It’s just the sound of him breathing, hard. It’s fear. You can hear it in his breathing. Faiz rolls up, sees Kaixa immobilized. He tenses. It’s all tension, speaker to speaker. The Orphnoch stumbles out of the tunnel, burning in red flames.

So it seems that the flames aren't merely from the monster explosion, but it's a part from the Rider's attacks as well if the pink flame would mean it's Delta...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And, like, hopefully I described that in a way that sounds like it worked it pretty well! That’s the stuff I like talking about, the stuff that works. Because I could’ve done points 2 through 4 on how much no one cares about random Ryusei Cram School alumni (“Go Meteors!”), how it’s ridiculous to think the show's effectively heightening tension by killing them off, how I don’t love that Kusaka wants to keep Mari in the dark to protect her (one of my least-favorite tropes!), how I don’t really get why Lucky Clover is so worked up about Murakami keeping secrets when he immediately tells them what’s going when they asked, and just basically how dull I found the story that all of this smart construction was in service of.

"No one cares"? Lol... Switchblade's comment above for example to talk about 2 of them or so that you'd remember. It's understandable to enjoy talking about the stuff that works but, would that be negated (like I would do, in this section of my reply here, which I wouldn't be comfortable to do due to that) if you also want to hear what people's thoughts, like being curious about something not working to you, or those that disagree with you? I mean yeah Ryusei Cram School cast isn't meant to be a huge player, but I'm not asking about them, but, I ask about why everything in a story should be made with as much effort as the main casts? Why create something like, victims to MOTW then? Also other than Kusaka to Mari here.... there's also everyone to Keitaro and Murakami to other Smart Brain.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Admittedly Ghost does get a flak, but the theme song is not one of them AFAIK!