[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Awww, thanks! It's kinda funny you cite me remembering a lot of things about the shows I love right after a post about you remembering a lot of things about the shows you love, especially after I continued my rewatch of OOO and Ghost where it turns out there's a LOT I didn't remember about those; but I'm grateful nonetheless! I'm not sure I'd praise myself quite as much as you're doing here, but I'm always trying to get better at this, so I appreciate it

My first Toku thing of the year? Turns out it was watching OOO Episode 16 and Ghost Episode 12 and having a lot to say about them! I feel I've been stumbling to say stuff on this rewatch but I'm pretty happy with what I got down here.

More than half of my experience of writing is getting to the end of the process and going Wait Is That All I've Got, so those feelings are pretty relatable. (It feels very common, for the creative process.) I'm glad you're throwing down things you're happy with, though!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

One thing I'm kind of shocked Die didn't call attention to is how, directly after that big declaration from Tendou's that he's going to protect Hiyori, he gets knocked aside, and Hiyori immediately puts herself between him and Rena in an effort to protect him right back, demonstrating more through action rather than just words how much she cares too.

I sort of mentioned it near the beginning, but, yeah: great moment in a great episode dedicated to a great relationship. Tendou's as shocked at Hiyori's protection as Hiyori was about Tendou's. It's very much the two of them seeing how similar they are, how their feelings towards one another are frequently obfuscated, misinterpreted. At the end, they're able to see in each other something greater than their apprehension and frustrations.

(Hey, quick note about my process. It's bad! I don't really do any prepping or roughing out what I write. I'll start with a vague idea of a major point or two I want to cover, like Hiyori/Tendou or the teamwork of ZECT In A Van, and then just write until I feel like I've hit a beat I like as the end. With this episode... I genuinely could not imagine trying to talk past that Tendou scene. Everything that comes after it is great, and I knew I could count on you to articulate the sheer fun of the big battle at the end, but that Tendou scene. Everything after that was just denouement for me.)

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Happy new Kabuto! My personal resolution is to become a Kamen Rider myself (hey, might as well aim high. It's nice that the first episode of Rider you watched this year ended on such a strong note.

I don't think you're supposed to want that! Every episode that has a kid wanting to be a Kamen Rider makes the characters in it cry!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Anyhow as a total tangent, it's too bad you have to rely on the mess that is RiderWiki a lot of the time, especially when the official Japanese rider info site has such helpful pages like this one.

That is a way better setup than RiderWiki, but I feel like you picking an entry for my least-favorite Blade story is... are you pranking me? Is this a New Year's goof?

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Originally Posted by MrWilliamGraham

The first toku thing I did in the year was watch Kabuto episodes 31-34

It was a trip, let me tell you

It is important to celebrate the New Year by honoring the personification of the sun, as it was in olden times. We should have all been watching Kabuto every New Year's! Nobody told me!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Oh! I only just noticed this post since it went up right as I was making my last one. You should be happy with what you wrote about those episodes; it was really good! Also, I'm starting to notice we're all really bad at taking compliments!

(For the record,my first toku thing of the year was also this episode of Kabuto, naturally. I'm probably going to go and rewatch Ghost's Hyper Battle Videos for the fun of it pretty soon, to give a slightly more interesting answer to the question at hand.)

I love the acknowledgement of your Ghost-watching being "for the fun of it". It's okay to watch these things when you feel like, kids, and not just from some longform schedule. Don't live by our example!