[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

It's so nice to see the Momo and Ryotaro stuff get back on track. Den-O is at its best when it forgets about the big time shenigins, and its best when it remembers the characters at the centre of this. Ryotaro, the Imagin, Yuuto, they're still popular characters today for a reason.

Momo alone is popular enough to show up in an unrelated Ex-Aid movie nine years later!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Den-O is a show that's rightfully known primarily for being hilarious, but that always takes a back seat in my mind to just how fantastically endearing the character work can be, and episodes like this are why.

It's brilliant in the way that it has this big Momo/Ryotaro blowup, splits the characters apart, lets them stew about their feelings (and everyone else backs off! There are no scenes with Ryotaro or Momo explaining their problems to other people! That is super crucial!), and then puts them back in conflict. It's an episode that's in no real hurry to address a pretty major schism, and I loved it for treating these characters with some seriousness.

And then, after they make up, Momo reminds Ryotaro that Ryotaro's bad luck will probably get him killed way before the Imagin disappear, and this show proves that it can do whatever it sets its mind to.