[Kamen Rider Die]

Hands down, the funniest line of dialogue yet in Blade. Mutsuki! You literally could not be more wrong!

Speaking of reading people maybe not totally right, the beginning of this episode gives a little bit more nuance to what Kenzaki's big hero moment was about. Or, it's explained in a more straightforward way? (I'm doing this now because it doesn't seem to be a big enough part of Episode 27 to be worth addressing in that post.)

What Shima (and Karasuma) want Kenzaki to realize is that previously he's been fighting to fix something in himself, to deal with emotions he has. They want him to act out of a pure selflessness, pure love for others. They want a kind of obliteration of ego, where Kenzaki's needs and desires become irrelevant in the face of his connection to others.

It's still a scene that doesn't 100% work for me (I wish the lightswitch moment for Kenzaki wasn't doing something he's done probably a dozen times already on this show), but there's a lot more daylight between what Shima wanted to see from him and how Kenzaki had been acting. I'm glad there's that little encapsulation at the beginning of 27!