[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I'm always onboard with hearing alternate/dissenting views.

I don't have much to say about the Ryuusei Children (the callous way they get slaughtered whenever they show up is endearingly Faiz-y?), but I will stick up for the Takumi/Kimura stuff a bit. I don't think it's a big problem that it fails to do anything new with Takkun, because the way I see it, the whole point is looking backwards. For the past 10-ish episodes, Takumi's jerkiness has been toned down a fair bit from how it was early on. He's almost totally warmed up to Mari and Keitarou at this point, significant time has been spent showing his compassionate side through his interactions with Yuka, he's bros with Yuuji after working at that pizza place together, heck, after hearing that bit about Mari replacing his mom, his attitude towards Kusaka has even shifted from straight animosity to cautious curiosity.

Of course, he still has his moments, by for the most part, we're seeing Takumi hanging out with people he's gotten to know. Presences that he accepts as part of his life. What Kimura showing up accomplishes is letting the show inject like, just a concentrated dose of Takkun by having him interact with some stranger he'd rather not put up with. It's a lightning-bolt reminder of all his issues, and, knowing what's coming up, I think this was a smartly placed point for the show to basically take inventory of his character traits.

Also, the scene in episode 26 where he walks into the room to grab that soda and actively ignores Kimura's presence is one of the funniest bits of the whole show in my book.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I'm as addicted to making fun of Delta for being overhyped as those kids are to being Delta.

Ooh, wait, I got one!

I heard Delta is so incredible, he can do three surgeries at once.

No, actually, I have two!

I heard Delta is so powerful, he can make Tezuka get off his couch after he predicts he needs to crash at Delta's house for the next week or two.

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The Delta name... is it too straight-forward? It's not as weird as the other two, but I feel like this show already established Weird as the way it generated names? I don't know. It's fine.

There actually is some minor connecting tissue to Faiz's rider names in that they're all three syllables in Japanese. Fa-i-zu, Ka-i-za, and De-ru-ta. I don't know if that's some intentional thing, but they share a rhythm that would've been ruined by sticking some arbitrary bits on the end of the word like they did for Faiz and Kaixa. Plus, Delta sounds a lot catchier as a name on its own that Phi and Chi do!