[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

It's not a story about Den-O, but it very much feels like a story that only Den-O would tell, to me.

Sure, and that's why it's still pretty enjoyable. This is a series that has Feelings For And About Monsters baked into it on a fundamental level, so it's totally fitting to just do some quick story about an Imagin who accidentally catches familial feels and nearly dies because of it. And I'm all about stories that are focused on sympathetic monsters! Cubi!

But, like: Cubi. Cubi's story works within the world of Ghost because that show is all about how Takeru connects to people, about how everyone's connected to everyone else, about how inspiration is something that lives inside of everyone, even cubist monsters.

With Den-O, it's... I want to say it's a series that's less about how Ryotaro connects to the world, and more about how Ryotaro connects to himself. Doing a story about a sympathetic monster that doesn't ask anything extra of Ryotaro, or doesn't map to something in his experiences, it just feels like it's not doing the work it needs to do to make this story belong to this series? If I'm explaining my criticism well?