[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I'd think yes like Blade's theme people have to learn about coping with failure and rise, or deal with suffering, but what Tsukasa does throughout the episode is what I fear can be justified for developing through misery or such, by deliberately making other's live harder, and excusing (either themselves or others who watched this) those as only them trying to make others around them better. While it is true that people have become stronger in the face of adversity, this does not mean adversity always makes someone stronger.

It... there's a thing I think it's easy to misconstrue with Blade's themes generally, and what this show is saying about it specifically. It's not about suffering and powering through, or dealing well with adversity. It's recognizing that you have failed, stopping, and trying to move forward from that. It's not about trying to salvage an unsalvageable situation, or about keeping your wits about you when things are falling apart. Onodera's whole point to Kenzaki is that he's already lost his job, lost being Blade. That's done. Now, he gets to decide what comes next, whether that's becoming someone who deserves to be Blade or not.

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

I couldn't help getting amused about Chef Tsukasa, constantly having the image of Gordon Ramsey in head, or even how despite him being a jerk to AR Blade, he ends up helping him in his own special way, whether intentional or not.

I cannot stress this enough: it is totally unintentional. Like, there's eventually a benefit for Tsukasa treating Kenzaki like absolute shit, but we're in some real A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day territory. He's completely being a jerk to Blade for no other reason than Blade makes it incredibly easy to root against him in the first half of this story.