[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Yup makes plenty of sense, and I really need to put my nose to the grind and watch more toku, so I can like write better comparisons.

It's just, this is all sort-of my job? Like, digging into why I think something works (or doesn't work) and trying to explain that to people, that's basically what selling books to people is all about?

If someone comes in and says they liked a particular Batman story, I can always just sell them another Batman story. But, eventually, that's going to wear thin. That person's going to want something beyond Batman stories. (NOTE: Not all people! Some of them legitimately just want Batman stories forever!) So what I need to do is figure out what inside that Batman story that they were responding to. Was it the art, the writing, the tone, the duration, the twists, the themes... what about that story resonated with that person, and then what other stories have those same elements?

The other big part of the job is recommendations, and that's trying to find hidden gems that people might overlook. So that's just reading something, figuring out if it's something I like, and then trying to convey what about it that I liked to someone else. It's never "here's what happened in the story", but what about the story is worth experiencing, or what someone might like about it.

All of this, watching something and trying to understand it, trying to figure out what it's trying to say, trying to communicate that to other people, that's just how my brain works all the time now.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

I'm using "Misunderstandings" to mean "They misunderstand that Kusaka wasn't the hero of the Ryuseii school X-Men all along", obviously.

He took the fourth-longest to die, so he's got some positive traits.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

And if you think I have any deep opinions on Blade other than "hehe Chalice suit look good", you are deeply mistaken.

Noted!