[Kamen Rider Die]

KAMEN RIDER KIVA - THREAD WRAP-UP



And that's a wrap on Kamen Rider Die Watches Kamen Rider Kiva!

Obviously, this thread will hang around for as long as folks want to talk about Kiva, but my day-to-day contributions are all done. I even opened my Kiva figure to celebrate:



(Neat sculpt, but BOY do those Fuestle holders like to pop off if you even think about them. Getting them to stay on while posing Kiva was an exercise in frustration. It was making me hate that suit to an almost Takaiwa level.)

Also! The commemorative Kamen Rider Die Makes A Word-Art for Kiva!



This is drawn from the 106-page Google Doc I wrote all of my episode posts in. Hopefully some relevant combinations in there? (I'm fond of "Maya Megumi Good Things”, personally.)

Special thanks to Androzani84 and Fish Sandwich for their continuing encyclopedic knowledge, as well as their enthusiasm for the source material. As someone who isn't that keyed into the history of the medium, or the expanded details these shows accrue from interviews and articles, it's nice to get so much info and analysis about these series. Thank you both!

And, as always, thanks to everyone who took the time to participate in this thread. It was so gratifying to see lively and clever debate that never devolved into... well, all the things I was afraid a Kiva thread would devolve into. I hoped we could all be friendly in our disagreements - never letting an opposing viewpoint obscure our shared love of Kamen Rider - and you people really came through for me. You should all be proud of yourselves for continuing to make TokuNation one of the best places online. Give yourselves a round of applause, because you are the genius commenters of the millennium.

For me, I think this was an alright attempt at analyzing Kiva. B-, C+ work. Some episodes and stories I really got ahold of (feel good about 23/24, maybe a couple others), a bunch that I felt I was adequate at conveying something, and the rest that at least used a respectable amount of letters. This was always fun, even when I was the one least responsible for that fun.

The next few weeks are going to be bumpy! I really need to get my head out of a Kamen Rider space for at least a couple of weeks, because I've let some personal-life stuff slip in the last little while. Need to get back to a good place with all that, first thing. Then I'll head back over to the Den-O thread for a week or so, hit the last Ryotaro movie and probably the Cho Den-O three-parter. Probably take another couple weeks off after that, then start up the Decade thread. Somewhere in all that will be the behind-the-scenes work to get the Decade thread prepped. Busy summer, you guys! Busy summer.

In the meantime, thanks again for letting me experience a Kamen Rider series in your company. It's such a gift to get to do these threads, and I'm eternally grateful for your indulgence and for your friendship. You are all the best.