[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I guess my problem is that... I still don't think that makes it a Hibiki story? In the ways Hibiki tells stories? Hibiki as a show was never that interested in the mechanics of its world, it was interested in the people within it. It used this group (the branch of Takeshi) as a metaphor for society (parents need structures and support to raise children). The movie fills in the motivations, but it treats the structure itself as the good, rather than leveraging it to say something about growing up.

Like, the show was about the people who worked in a building, while the movie told us how the building got built. I'm not sure that's as compelling a story to tell? Or one that adds anything to the modern-day characters?

Yeah, I can't really argue with that! For me personally I'm fine with it because, well, it's a movie -- in my mind at least that's a separate thing that's allowed to do whatever it wants. It's not as if this is Inoue taking control of the season itself and turning it into something it's not where despite his hard work, his style of writing mixes about as well with Hibiki as oil and water; that would be silly. If the movie decides to tell stories very differently from how Hibiki usually tells em, I'm all for it! This is also why I'm pretty good with how the Decade and Zi-O tributes tell their stories but obviously we'll get there.