[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

So, I guess to clarify, when I said I'd be talking about what's fun for me to talk about, that doesn't mean I'm only going to be complementary or that I'm going to ignore the flaws. It can be fun to talk about those! I mostly meant that if I didn't care about something in an episode, I wouldn't bring it up at all. It's not about avoiding talking about bad things, it's about avoiding talking about boring things. I enjoy talking about non-boring stuff, even if it's a disagreement!

This is also can be about when someone feels that you're being unfair or misunderstanding something, and complaining about it, which would likely about either the bad things (dunno if you mean just something bad in general or something occassionally bad in a generally good things?) or boring things, and wants to correct/point out, how about that? Also I want to hear about what you think about I'm talking for Saya being a character type.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I just felt like it had more juice to it, more moves. It's not just Go Kill This Traitor or Steal This Belt. The plot had a lot of moving pieces to it, and that kept me pretty interested. It was a story that fleshed out their group to the degree that I'd watch scenes of just their dynamic, same as I would for Team Orphnoch.

Wasn't it also still steal the belt, but Delta's? And there's one more recurring move that you didn't mention there, looking for another 1 member.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Seeing Mari take the lead on a crucial plot, to see her treat a Kusaka vs Sawada fight as a nightmare scenario, I dug it. It didn’t redeem all of the time spent on the lemmings of the Ryusei School, but it definitely locked in this chapter’s human element.

I wonder if you only mention Mari's state here only because the Ryusei School involved were the mattered ones - Kusaka and Sawada. Because for your comment of wanting Mari and Kusaka to listen to Takumi and leave these turds... you confirmed here that "These are people she grew up with, cares for deeply. This is her family, and they are literally killing each other in front of her" and even if the other Ryusei School is nowhere as important to those 2, they are to in-universe characters, she would side with them more compared to Takumi. Also btw wdym for the version of Mari and Kusaka we never saw?

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The Orphnoch element, though, I assume that’s going to be everyone’s favorite part. Because, like, Kitazaki.

Kitazaki is like Faiz' Asakura/Ouja. Not only in how him having serial killer personality, and how he lives to bathe in battle, but there's a final trait they share you'll see much later in the series. His power is to turn everything he touches to ash, but I guess, that power also depends on the durability of objects he touched right? Other Orphnochs doesn't immediately disintegrate into dusts. Yeah, there's a new take for Takuma, cowardly one, this can be polarizing too, those who like to see the ruthless unstoppable Takuma from the first 20 episodes. Also yeah for the members, Kitazaki is already a past member, he only just appeared now. The one that got replaced was Mr. J.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Less perfect is the Kimura stuff, which… man.

Oh I have to apologize, I didn't realize that "Saya" and "Kimura" was played up as a twist here. Though it does mean this is another Ryusei School stuff.... right? Also the Delta that was facing Takuma and instilled fear on him in previous episode was her btw. The Delta gear wasn't harmful in the way Kaixa Gear is, but it does have side effects. For Saya, it may have activated some of her Orphenoch DNA, as she died in flames. She fell ill due to the strain on suppressing the Delta Gear's influence and her Orphnoch DNA.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I love that ending, though.

The ending is similar to the ending on episode 24 here, and I feel that is more of a total victory there, because the protagonists has exactly zero way to fight back there, while here, they are still in Rider forms, though outnumbered.

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The only problem is, boy does this show not have room for another compelling group of diverse character types.

I think this was my point for "making the series all 100% like that is out of the people's capabilities, even making every single recurring cast equally as deep and completed is known as an enormous task, let alone the victims and one-time people", that it's too high of an expectations, not enough room for 100% everyone.