[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

Like, Fenix being secretly bad doesn't mean the Deadmans are secretly good, they're very open about also being evil. She asks Olteca for his motivation and he just goes "I'm the smartest boy in the world and I deserve to rule the world!!!" and her answer is "omg your so right." It's such fucking nonsense and it makes any attempts to make her getting backstabbed or Hiromi's feelings about it land fail entirely.

Yeah, it's not something I really felt like digging into, because a) it's Olteca explaining things, so we can assume it's mostly self-serving bullshit that flatters his specialness; b) it explains zilch about why Chigusa is all-in on the Deadmans as somehow superior to whatever evil evilness Fenix is up to; c) it's totally irrelevant to Hiromi's feelings of betrayal and desire to be a hero; and d) it's a dumb idea that ends with Chigusa being murdered because OLTECA, so there's nothing to look forward to in the aftermath.

Chigusa was by far the dumbest part of a dumb story, yes, agreed.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Yeah, Hiromi is a very popular character, but it?s clear the writers have little, if any, idea of what to do with him. This episode is more of a meta commentary on his place in the show (he was almost booted out of FENIX, but kept on because the higher ups saw his potential, like how the character was devised purely to die early on, but was spared because everyone liked his performance)

Interesting take! I don't think there'd be anything wrong with a story that explicitly moves Hiromi out from I Need To Be A Kamen Rider To Be A Hero into something that reflects the responsibility of his role as commander... but that's definitely not what this story was! Weird take on one of my favorite characters, this one.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

The scene that I didn't like in this episode was Tamaki and Sakura's conversation, which is just lazy and repetitive to repeat the same dialogue from previous episodes.

Tamaki's just trying to be a good wingman to Aguilera! He just wants Aguilera to be happy and in a loving relationship with a very special person and their big plush inner demon!