[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Yeah, when one of the big parts of the premise is These People Can't Communicate With Each Other, viewers who are frustrated by characters who don't communicate with each other are... they aren't going to have a great time with this show!

Which is the general consensus of the series for majority.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I can see it? I'm going to assume first names are as common in Japan as they are in America. (I mean, there was the whole story earlier about the two Masatos, right?) Even if Keitaro learned that Osada was Yuka Osada, he might not make the connection. I don't know. There are a lot of people in the world, is what I'm saying. For this reveal to work, a bunch of things had to line up. I liked it!

As already pointed out by Sh Ranger, it's 2 Kusakas not 2 Masatos. Also they already know there are people named Kusaka in Ryusei school, and she just latched on someone that responds when (randomly) called "Kusaka". But what I'm wondering is how Yuka and Keitaro got to know each other's names... and only just their surnames (I already explained, they know Kusaka's being in Ryusei school, and it made more sense to me than the Keitaro and Yuka part currently).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

But that's what makes them interesting villains? That they've got points of view? I think it's more compelling when you can see a kernal of righteousness in there (protecting your people) that's been warped over time.

Sure, villains can make legit good points (or accurate observations) about the state of the world and humanity in general, but that doesn't mean that the solution is to follow the villains' philosophies and/or course of action. They're interesting that way but god help I don't want them to be considered righteous (especially not Minami wtf) simply only because of that observations, and ignoring everything they've done.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

A billion cops tried to capture her over the last two episodes, and she's had multiple stories about people being terrified of Orphnochs. She's got problems beyond that, sure, but the show has definitely established that normal folks would be scared of Orphnochs.

(Also, "hated and feared" is an X-Men reference, since there's a whole bunch of X-Men similarities late in the show. Murakami is basically Magneto.)

Like I said before, it's all part of Minami's schemes of xenophobic racism against Orphnochs (Kusaka but even worse). All of the fear is only caused by Minami. It's not publicly yet.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

When I talk about people's opinions about art not changing, I don't mean that people can't appreciate stuff they wrote off, or hate stuff they once loved. It's more that I don't think you can get others to change their minds about stuff. People's tastes evolve all the time! But I don't think someone's tastes can be changed by someone else. To wit:

Well, currently I see appreciating stuff they wrote off and vice versa as opinion changing...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Oh my god, never. I had a reaction to this show. Someone else is going to have a completely different reaction to this show, and I'd never want to take that away from them. If anything, I'd love to hear why it didn't work for them.

Because you should actually explain to them the real establishment of the series (like characters, etc.), who knows if this is just underrated and they got it wrong. Don't let the insights go waste. Just that be prepared because most of those are in the not working part, in contrast to this thread.