[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Beyond that, though, there's a very generic, pretty low-stakes monster mystery plot that, honestly, I don't hate as a concept. As a huge fan of both Ghost and Wizard, I'm actually quite into the idea of a Rider show that can still make the time to do some fun weekly adventure stuff late into the run. It's nice to have some room to breathe, at least occasionally. One of my favorite bits in here is even just the classic Tendou/Juka scene at the start; a comforting return to the status quo after Kageyama and Renge were tearing that house up earlier. But like Die says, the emotional substance here is a little sparse, and as I'm about to say, everything surrounding it is full of things I remember not liking about this stretch of Kabuto.

The thing that bugged me about this particular generic monster plot, the more I thought about it, is how lazily it tries to integrate the cast into the premise? Everyone's funny, but this plan is terrible. It's literally just Everyone Stand Around And Wait For Something To Happen. There's no real momentum to the plot at all, and that means if you're not laughing at something, you're probably bored off of your ass. I'd normally expect Tendou to more forcefully confront a threat, or agitate a situation until an adversary shook to the top. (When he tries to find the Drunk Doctor Duplicate, he's trying all sorts of crazy tricks!) Here, he's just, like, stationing guards? Even his interactions with Keiko are minor, non-illuminative. There's a real sense of complacency in this plot, and that's not what I associate with Kabuto?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Though if you praise their act here, I wonder how would you respond against real life edgelords (one of their characteristics is that they think they're great due to their bad traits or supporting them, and being "different"), especially that on Internet here, they're plenty.

One of the fun things about fiction is getting to play around with ideas you find... less entertaining in real life. I would probably avoid Real Life KickHopper and PunchHopper as much as humanly possible. But I love stories about them!