[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

As is my wont, I have casting trivia. This time it?s centered on my favorite member of Eternal?s crew, the Heat Dopant (because I can be shallow and those shorts). She was played by actress Minase Yashiro, who was the lead actress in The Machine Girl, a minor cult classic about a schoolgirl who replaces her severed arm with a gatling gun to get revenge on her attackers. It?s one of those ridiculously silly and gory low budget films that were popular around the late ?00s. Some of my friends and I were briefly obsessed with the movie?s absurd trailer, so it was really surprising to me when Yashiro turned up in a Kamen Rider project (for the first, but not final time).

She was pretty great! I liked how Team Eternal were all broad archetypes without being one-note caricatures. You could very quickly figure out which was which, they all filled a unique role, and there was a fun sense of cohesion. I bought them as a team of mercenaries that were also deranged lunatics.