[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So fun fact, the old guy who the final sale comes down to is a Tokusatsu alumnus. He was previously Emperor Zero, the main villain of Kamen Rider Amazon (and the only Showa era big bad to to be an actor, rather than a voiceover) and Mason, one of the villain mini group the Big Three (along with Farrah and Monster) in the Sentai show Choudenshi Bioman.

That IS a fun fact! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

He did threaten to arrest the guy who made a Humagear who looked like the guy's dead daughter, so it's a bit unclear on when and how AIMS operates as a police unit. Probably for the best too, since I imagine a deep dive would just raise alot of questions that kids most likely aren't concerned about.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I thought that bit was fairly clear -- they deal with AI-related crimes and that includes any humans involved in them. As a government agency they also probably have some basic allowances to investigate people etc, otherwise they probably wouldn't get very far into most AI-related crimes without being constantly accompanied by normal police

So, yeah, there've been instances in the past where a human intersects with an AI investigation. The voice actor Humagear's "dad", or the guys stealing and reselling Humagears. But Arayashiki is, at best, someone who is believed to be in contact with a person of interest in an AIMS investigation. (Which, at this point, is all MASSIVELY circumstantial, even for Fuwa's usual disregard of things like Evidence or Confessions.) Fuwa being all I'm Gonna Take This Guy Down feels like the sort of overreach that has me wondering if AIMS has literally any oversight whatsoever. Is there no grizzled captain who has had it up to here with Fuwa's renegade ways, despite the fact that he gets results?!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

What I remember most about this episode is that it?s the debut of Aruto?s ultimate counter to a Humagear going berserk: hug it around the waist and scream its name until it stops being a monster. Does it work? No. Will it still be his immediate go-to response? Yep.

I'm never going to complain about a Rider trying to hug a rampaging monster back into normalcy. Never!!!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Oh I just noticed, you didn't build a SO-DO this time! Run out of suits that have happened before now? I don't know how much of the line you got, but later waves include a lot of earlier stuff including some monster suits

I do have those later sets! I was planning on saving stuff like Final Form Assassin-Chan or the various Humagears/Trilobites for the COVID-era episodes, since those seem like they're way less likely to have any new suits. But they might pop out before then, it depends on how much time I've got.