[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Donbrothers was fun enough already, but if I get to read your thoughts on it every week too, it's even more of a party.

Just think how exciting things will be when their train finally gets here!

They-- they do have a train, don't they? I have certain expectations about Sentai! I saw the Gears, that's covered, but I need there to be a train.

This was great, though. It's jubilant; constantly, unerringly. It's like falling down a rabbit hole, so that an old man and a dog with the same name as our Cheekbones You Could Cleave A Peach With crimson hero feels like a normal way to end a story.

And yet.

It's still plenty dark, if you want to dig into it. The villains seem to weaponize self-definition, which is a very Inoue thing. The victims in this one were athletes who wrapped up their self-worth in their achievments, becoming monsters who only cared about greater successes. The guy who Tarou helped out saw his failure to become a lawyer as the end of his identity. Haruka loses the thing she was born to do in the very first episode. There's plenty around the edges to point to a terror lurking under the show's boisterous facade, just like the hidden world of monsters that created a prison for our heroes.

I don't know, I don't want to be a bummer! But as much as I loved this first episode (SO MUCH), I'm really looking forward to the existential dread and obliterated egos that are just up Inoue's sleeve.