[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

For reference, a tsundere is a type of character who acts like they don’t care about someone else, but switch to actively caring when they’re not present. Not to be confused with “yandere” which is where the person is obsessively caring of someone to the point of insanity.

And a prominent example of this franchise for yandere is Kusaka from Faiz. Obsessively loves Mari and did a good number of his evil acts revolving around that, namely taking out her potential suitors.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER DEN-O EPISODE 29 - “LUCKY HORROR SHOW”

Fittingly for an episode set at a haunted house, I was absolutely terrified at the thought of a story built around people getting very excited to win a date with Airi. The potential pitfalls for a storyline like that would make the Grand Canyon look like a pothole. But no! That’s not really what this episode’s about at all! It’s an episode about trying to be better for the people you care about, which is a very nice sentiment. It’s also an episode about how shared selfishness can sometimes be a better motivating force than cooperation or sacrifice, and that is a hilarious sentiment.

I know about the part where shared selfishness is a better motivating force, like Ex-Aid where the main Riders attack Graphite together and won, but it's them trying to one up each other. But just because the shared selfishness make a good result like here and there, doesn't mean it's a better motivating force than cooperation, the cooperation can likely produce even better results than shared selfishness. I'd wish that people don't overlook that selfishness can create pointless infighting instead, like Yuuto attacking and shoving Den-O away due to his self-righteousness about dealing with the problem (protecting the flow of time).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The conclusion of this weird almost-one-off (it looks like Deneb’s sadness is going to spillover into an episode I could not be more excited to watch), where the DenLiner Imagin have to figure out what one thing they could all believe in enough to use Climax Form and that thing is Not Working Together… genius. I love it. It’s a total zig where other shows would zag, and it’s hilariously this show. These heroic imagination monsters from the end of time can’t cooperate for a shared desire, but they sure as shit can be so unreasonably and collectively selfish that they’ll power through any obstacle in tandem. It’s a fantastic note to end on, We Are All Pretty Greedy Deep Down And That’s Sometimes Better Than Apathy, and it’s a great juxtaposition to award that behavior while penalizing Zeronos for trying to protect Deneb.

Like I said before, I always want to know about how the living beings feel when 2 or more of them are being fused in 1 body for combining powers or something. They would share a body with each of the merging living beings, and most of the time, the show just act as that living being would triumph over the fight or something, likely due to certain living being is the dominant one in controlling that body, or that the souls are united too. Den-O Climax Form shows all the struggles in glory for fused beings as power up, the struggle to decide which one takes control, and all the clumsy decisions coming from that. It's an appropriate drawback for fused beings as more power up.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s a purely selfless act from Yuuto, him using his penultimate Zeronos Card to save the presumably imperiled Deneb. It’s for nothing, of course. Deneb is trying to overcome his inexplicable terror (it’s funny, but it’s a weird thing in the episode, since Deneb is an imagination monster from the end of time who fights imagination monsters from the end of time pretty regularly? But he's petrified of spookums for this episode?) and win Yuuto a date with Airi, so there’s really no danger. But Yuuto rushes there regardless, and Deneb is shattered by how much he’s let Yuuto down. It’s the one real emotional stake of this episode, and MAN they definitely hit the stake into the ground at the end. Having Deneb’s cute little subplot result in Yuuto losing a Card and Deneb running away from home? Sad! Too sad! Didn’t want a sad ending to this goofy-ass trifle!

Not only Deneb, but Momotaros is also shown to be afraid of chihuahua, he's a comic relief and a ditzy one, that's why. And oh well for Yuuto's act being refered as purely selfless, this one's still, as expected from him, about someone close to him (friend/family), won't refer that necessarily as purely selfless, or at least less than caring for others that are not directly related to you. It's still sad though for losing a card for something not needed and low stake.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s a hilarious episode besides that, though. Just wall-to-wall goofs. The story takes off like a rocket, and Ryotaro’s actor does award-level work by cycling through every Imagin in short order. There’s a real transformation he goes through when he plays possessed, and it’s never more clear than when an Imagin is only there for a line before moving on. Getting to see so many fun moments, as the Imagin try to cobble together a working team in order to defeat a local haunted house, and they can’t even manage that (Kin botches it! Ryutaros never even gets his shot!), it’s a really stellar episode for Ryotaro’s actor.

Not every episode for Takeru Sato? His achievement is about cycling through every Imagin throughout the entire show, and that makes him a big star for KR actor, not only big in KR but also overseas.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Everyone else who shows up for this one (bit of a light cast, which is to the story’s benefit, focus-wise) gets a killer moment or two, though. Naomi’s at her most Chaotic Good here, generally encouraging the Imagin while delighting at their continued bickering and misfortune. Hana gets one of the episode’s biggest laughs by being terrible at surviving a haunted house because she can’t stop fighting back. Yuuto eating an incredibly large rice ball. Deneb’s slow realization, amid his own screams, that the monster staring at him is his own reflection. Just a comedic masterclass, top to bottom, front to back.

Naomi's constant need for stimulation, apart from here (and what I noticed as well), is rarely listed upon in the Den-O inforomations on internet, just talking about her being pollyana or hyper, and being good friends with the Taros Imagin and playing with Ryutaros. I know the part of her engouraging the Taros Imagin for doing their job against monster makes the good part in chaotic good, but I'd still think of that delighting misfortune behavior as something to be wary of; I said before about those who love drama being a serious issue in society and contributes to making the world being a harder place to live for the need of the drama. In logical extreme this is the main goal of one of the most irredeemable villains in the franchise; Daguva from Kuuga, who wants to make humans as violent as he is. Hana can't stop fighting back but man... those are humans, aren't Hana's hostility are reserved for Imagins?

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

THE BAGGAGE CAR

-This episode’s Imagin and contract holder were fine. Zero percent surprised that the murderer didn’t really murder anyone, because that’s not what kind of show this is. The Imagin had a good visual, but didn’t really get a chance to chatter enough to feel like more than a speed bump. Not a lot of room to develop the IOTW here, and while I am totally okay with that, it’s still worth noting.

Reminder that the show has the Imagins actually shown killing people, onscreen, like Wolf Imagin (Yuka Sawada's) when he travels to the past.