[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Nokination

Aside from that, I once again liked Gai wanting a clean win, even if he's a terrible person, he's still very charismatic and you can sense that this guy is the head of a major company.

It's a very fun character trait. He doesn't just want to win, he wants his victory to be 1000%. Cheating on any level would diminish the purity of his inevitable victory, so it's not just insulting, it's unnecessary.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

The abuse Smile takes is not only sad in its own right, but helped in engaging me to her arc as well as reinforced what I took away as the biggest theme that the show has to offer.

There's a lot of how cyclical and spiraling anger can be in this story. There's a quote that I can't remember (ten minutes on Google was zero help) about how damage to another becomes damage to the world becomes damage to ourselves, or something like that. (Searching those vague keywords turned up a lot of information on car insurance!) That sort of rage gets out in the world, and comes back in ways you can't predict. This arc's been real interesting in how it talks about anger as a transmissible enemy, and that's way smarter than some weird MetsubouJinrai climax.