[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

We're at a moment where I wanted to point out something. Blade is a lot of things as a series, and one of those things is the last show to really go in on the motorcycle element of Kamen Rider. Right now we're in the middle of a story where the main focus is on a monster getting hold of a super motorcycle that might be stronger than the Kamen Riders' motorcycles. You really don't get anything like that again after Blade.

Yeah, and, like, the entire second half of this episode is Motorcycles Amirite. It's all about how cool motorcycles are, how fast and powerful and iconic. There's a montage of the two heroes just working on a bike together, with that experience painted as the apotheosis of male friendship. It's an episode that luxuriates in the iconography of motorcycles as an intrinsic piece of Kamen Rider storytelling. It'd be gratuitous, if it wasn't so welcome and enjoyable.