[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

But I'm mostly posting because I need to do some cleanup on that list of yours and throw in my two cents.

Good to know! Now that we've got some consensus here, I'll rearrange some stuff in that first post. Thanks for the feedback!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So a bit of extra information, the mum ending up in the hospital was because the original intent was for her to die from her injuries (mirroring how the author?s father died suddenly when he was in middle school), but the producer vetoed it, so she?s recuperating in the hospital until said writer figures out how to incorporate into the plot.

Good! Her getting killed would've been such a pointless bummer, and probably would've soured me on most of the episode. It is way better if Ikki's motivated by familial obligation and the desire for his relatives to succeed than if he's just All Moms Are Deaded into being a Kamen Rider. No thanks to all of that!

And thanks for the funny Stamp short!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So this is a season that takes the place of what Fourze was planned to previously as yearly anniversary season (50th, to Fourze's 40th), I wonder (and hope) how will anniversary season that doesn't involve revisiting previous series go. For anniversary, so many 50 motifs, including the main family's surname Igarashi which means "Fifty Storms".

I mean, I'm far more interested in an anniversary season that looks at how Kamen Rider shows have changed and grown over the last fifty years, than I am at another cavalcade of guest stars and callbacks. (That part of the franchise is so ever-present as to be a parallel series to whatever the year's show is.) I like that they went a different way with it?

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

For those curious, the Deadmans get their entire thing from the Day of the Dead. A Mexican holiday that honors friends and family who've passed away.

Possibly, but it's more likely that they're a hidden reference to wrestling faction LIJ, a frequent rival to special guest star Minoru Suzuki's own Suzuki-gun faction.