[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I have to say, not much stuck out for these episodes beyond Diend’s choice of summons: It’s-a SHOWTAIMU!

While there's some sick joy in seeing Psyga and his incongruent English show back up, I genuinely loved the IXA Vision shot. I could not stop laughing at Nago having his own catchphrase at the top of his display, that big RETURN THAT SOUL TO THE LORD (or whatever the translation was) pasted over his targeting reticles and equipment readouts. I don't know that these episodes were saying a lot about Kabuto that resonated with me, but they got Nago.

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Originally Posted by MrWilliamGraham

Thanks for letting me be part of this project Die! I hope our lukewarm reception of this arc doesn’t deter anyone from watching Kabuto. It’s a great ride ( eeeeeyy )

If anything, I hope our lukewarm reception of this arc testifies to how good the real Kabuto is! We couldn't be let down if we didn't think Kabuto deserved better!

And, as always, my eternal thanks to everyone who decided to give up their free time to participate in this project. You're all my heroes! Cheers!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

It feels like there's supposed to be a moral in there somewhere, but they didn't want to repeat the moral from the World of Faiz and just say it's okay to be a Worm. There's merit to maintaining a status quo. But yeah, if a recipe can be improved, then I really don't see the harm in trying to make something better. Maybe it should be more specific, like Mayu's human heart shouldn't change. The oden was just a really bad metaphor. Adding a new ingredient to a recipe isn't necessarily the same as becoming a bad person. It depends on the ingredients.

And, like, that restaurant doesn't seem like We Only Serve One Dish Forever is working out super great, financially? It's pretty run down, and the only employees are family -slash- undercompensated help. Maybe it's okay to serve a second dish? Or let the next generation add something to recipe? This whole Don't Mess With The Recipe metaphor is bad! It's very bad!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

One more joke other than that and the Worm Tsukasa is at the end, where Tsukasa cleverly scams Kaito with pepper by passing it off as Legendary Spice! What did you think of that?

Kaitou's final scene is the most Tsurugi thing this two-parter managed, so of course I loved it.

I feel like Kaitou and Tsukasa are built to be shipped? I'm not suggesting there's anything explicitly romantic in their scenes, but, man. Tsukasa goes to this theatrical extreme to make Kaitou feel valued, and Kaitou is so jazzed that Tsukasa is doing this for him. I don't even think Kaitou is excited that he got some hidden treasure or anything. I think Kaitou knows it's just some pepper, but is giddy over Tsukasa's gesture.

It was all very dumb, and very cute. Kaitou hasn't felt vital to the storytelling since the Faiz episodes (if even then), but little scenes like this make me glad he's still around.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I just feel like the episodes didn’t try to do anything creative with Kabuto. I like it when Decade swings for the fences. When it works you get something like Agito world but even when it fails you get something that’s at least still interesting. This is just a Reader’s Digest version of the Hiyori storyline with some minor twists added. It’s not different enough to really stand out from the original and a lot of the changes feel more like taking key elements away rather than added anything (Souji has no personality and Not Kagami just disappears forever halfway through the second episode).

Yeah, there's not a lot of Decade personality to this story, which is the worst thing I can say about it. It's not really interrogating the Kabuto themes through Tsukasa (he basically just shows up and projects Mayu's hopes and fears onto a man he never met before), and there aren't any additional plots for Natsumi or Onodera. Basically just a Kabuto story, and not much of one at that.