[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Would like to add Ryotaro's actor Takeru Sato went on to be a big time star after Den-O and Rookies, a live action adaptation of a baseball manga that is essencially Coach Carter with baseball. Check out Rookies if you wanna see a heartwarming sports underdog story that happens to have Ryotaro with dreadlocks.

Yeah, I remember Oh My God They Got Den-O To Come Back being a big thing from a recent movie. (Build/Zi-O?) I've only seen little bit of why he's so great, and I'm excited to see the rest.

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Originally Posted by LeviathanBlossom

.....so I have yet to actually read any of this thread (and I am looking forward to it! but not today, haha) but I felt the need to express how much I love that somehow, SOMEHOW, Die chooses the right screencap to summarize the series as a whole in the first episode every time. Every time!

Hopefully it'll stick! Kabuto was one where I wasn't happy with the series signature until, like Episode 3 or 4. Like everything in Phase 1, I will never top Faiz's:

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Oh, and speaking of that screencap, I love the fact that Ryoutarou just rides around on a plain old bike?

It's the same trick that was used in Ryuki, with Shinji's little moped, where I find it really nicely underscores the everyman status of the protagonist that they have something broadly similar to a proper motorcycle, so you can tell they're a Kamen Rider hero if you squint, but with none of the cool factor. I just find it so endearing for some reason.

I wonder if the whole concept of Den-O being a train guy is so that when snarky fans complained about another Kamen Rider who doesn't ride anything, they could just shout HE RIDES A TRAIN and shut them up.

Also, yeah, him riding a bike around is a pretty cute way of having a less powerful version of a Kamen Rider trope. Even his scarf, is, like, adorable? It's this red Kamen Rider Scarf, but it's wrapped tight instead of flying free. Probably a metaphor in there somewhere!