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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Thanks!

Yeah, I feel like Inoue tossed in a bunch of red herrings, plot-wise. It's stuff that feels like it's going to be a big deal (Orphan Daddy) that isn't a big part of anything. There are definitely a few things that, if you're feeling less-than-charitable, are a distraction. There's a lot of 47-49 that just really really muddies the water of what the show's been trying to say. They don't end up harming the ending, I thought, but it's not at all a smooth series of episodes to get here.

The leftover stuff with Kageyama and the Orphnoch King... part of me was like "Oh, this'll be a thing in the winter movie with Blade," until I remembered that they don't do those yet. As such, sure, that's a dangling thread. But, like, it's hard for me to imagine fans that invested in the Orphnoch King? Like, if you're saying the fandom views it negatively, I believe you, but I honestly didn't care if they swept that part of the story under the rug. Thematically, I thought it got dealt with as much as it needed to?

The Takumi part, I got two answers for. The first is that the show makes it explicit that Takumi is doing all of this because he knows that he could die at any minute. His life isn't measured by its length, it's measured by its depth. Whether or not he dies in ten years or in ten minutes, it doesn't really matter.

The other answer is that I knew Takumi showed up in later movies so I wasn't super worried about him. This is why I don't like hearing spoilers! I ruined the ending for myself!

I remember way earlier in this thread, I think around ep 16 you said something like "This show doesn't create a story/mythos then put characters in it, it takes characters and then builds a story/mythos around them" and I think that's true of the Orphanoc King, he was a plot device to frame the final arc of each character.