[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

There's a great physicality to it, right?

It just triggers all of that childhood Voltron nostalgia of the transformation sequence: the process, the weight, all of it. There's a comfort to the routine, and an excitement as it gets closer to concluding. Some heroes do it better than others, and I think Kabuto's suit deployment is one of the good ones.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And now, this thread’s first example of casting trivia. Two of the ZECT members debuting here, Yaguruma and Kageyama, are both fairly prominent actors in Tokusatsu, and I’m not just talking about the wealth of video game appearances and role reprisals they made after this show. Yaguruma’s actor, Hidenori Tokuyama, would later go on to star as Hiroto Suto/Go-On Gold in Engine Sentai Go-Onger (still one of my favourite Sentai shows), while Kageyama’s actor Masato Uchiyama was previously the Orphenoch of the fortnight when the villains stole both the Faiz and Kaixa belts from Takumi and Kusaka, and since then, he was temporarily the protagonist of Ultraman Nexus (since that show’s gimmick is that whenever the protagonist gets a new form, he chooses a new human partner to bond with just prior. Uchiyama’s character got the pre-final form, Nexus Junis Blue).

Very cool! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

I'd tottally buy Kagami working another job. I think adds to his character that this secret agent tasked with fighting against aliens also needs another job to help pay the bills. It fits with his current ranking within Zect as overall from his convo with his superior that he not that high rank.

Conversly I like Zect and I guess overall organizations. I think it fit within Kamen Rider. Though really I would be find with practically anything with Rider tbh.

It's so weird to say I don't like Organizational Kamen Rider, since I came in through Ex-Aid and the C.R., but I find myself way more into the lone hero/team stuff. (And even Ex-Aid didn't really have much in the way of oversight, at least past the first couple stories.) Just not my thing, all of these support guys and bosses? I like a group of friends (or frenemies) teaming up to defend the world. The more bureaucracy the show inserts, the less excited I am.

And you're right that Kagami working a second job attests to his junior status, but... everything ZECT does is so emergency-based. Why risk one of your few operatives not being available because he's delivering food for a bistro? Working for ZECT (or, really, any militarized organization of nebulous authority) seems like the sort of thing you don't half do. Feels inefficient to have this one guy (who seems to have been given some fairly important tasks!) splitting his time.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

I loved the whole masked form rider form stuff. Like I said before we have had instances where the pre-debut form was introduced with Kuuga (and Ryuki) so at the time it was fine. Also it made more sense given that he is based off an insect so even if it was a gimmick didn't really bother me. Looking back now it was also a nice reference to(though I am not certain it is the intention) a Ishinomori classic manga/tokusatsu hero called Inazuman, who at first is a cocoon-like form called Sanagiman(Sanagi is Japanese for cocoon) and later breaks from it to be his Inazuman form. As for the rider form suit, one of the most sleek and coolest designs to this day. This is the part of Kabuto as a show that I love despite some of the flaws, really nice clear gimmicks with timeless designs. It was the perfect recipe for an anniversary rider show and nice back-to-basics approach after the experiment that was Hibiki.
Man, I remember just rewinding and watching the clock-up scene multiple times when I first saw it. Could not believe they just took bullet time and made it work for them. That was just insane. And the rider kick? IT DEFINED TENDOU. That roundhouse kick was just so fresh considering all the previous rider kicks were just battlecry-heavy jumping kicks. The 1-2-3 gimmick was cool too cause it felt like him unlocking safety switches. Again, another example where the gimmick worked very well for the show, and this show had no collectibles.

I absolutely reposed my FRS Kabuto into a roundhouse pose after this episode. It's a great finisher!