[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

My biggest problem with this arc is how Shuki just came and went. The only character that cares is Zanki everyone else is just dosen't react to having the first evil Oni since Kabuki in the Sengoku era. And it's cyncial in a way an organization built on helping an oni after an a single oni allied with the makamou after being rejected by humanity shouldn't be. You would think this would be a big blow for both the other Oni with mistrust over one of thier own betraying them. And the Takeshi organizatian feeling guilty over not giving Shuki the help she needed to move on from her revenge.

The whole Ibuki As Internal Affairs thing... I honestly really love that idea, but the episode does nothing with it. If Takeshi has dozens of Oni running around, and they've been doing this for centuries, it's stands to reason that they must have some procedures in place for when an Oni loses control. (I mean, depending on how canon the movie is... Kabuki! The very first thing Takeshi has to do is deal with the aftermath of an Oni who turned on the other Oni!) I love how it falls to Ibuki, and how ill-suited he is for rendering that sort of judgment.

The problem is, that idea is so big that it needs its own two-parter, but here it's like the third-most important plot thread. Worse, as I said before, there's zero resolution to this idea! Ibuki confronts Shuki, but then Shuki sacrifices herself and everyone goes home. Ibuki doesn't ever have to make a decision, which makes introducing that conflict totally anticlimactic.