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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

doomed romance

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find their interactions romantic at all. I felt it was more that they reached a mutual form of understanding and respect than anything.

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-Like, I swear it?s not just me remembering how this one goes ? it is SO OBVIOUS that Kujo?s the Dopant, and it made me roll my eyes when Shotaro?s like The Most Likely Suspect Is The Dead Man, Not The Alive Woman Who Spent Two Minutes Angrily Defending His Honor.

Shotaro has no in-universe reason to suspect her, having just met her, and through Terui at that, who also appears to trust her. It's a case where he doesn't start with all of the details, so he's going by his faith in others as he usually does. Honoring the dead isn't exactly a foreign concept, either.

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-We check in with Wakana and Saeko? and that?s basically all the scene was. Not a great use of two fun characters, but I?m surprised they managed to shoehorn them into this packed episode.

It was to help establish the bond between Wakana and Mick.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Accel gets a new toy for no real reason

In context of the singular episodes, he always has. In context of the series overall, we learn the reasoning later on.

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HA HA, who knows, because this episode sidelines Terui for a huge chunk of it, and then pivots Kujo?s vengeance towards a vague supervillain plot, complete with her going to work for the very organization she swore to destroy. Terui never articulates a better difference between their parallel outlooks than My Vengeance Is The Okay Kind

He's stopping Kujo both due to his duty as an officer as well as seeing how far she's fallen, like how he did when he almost killed an innocent last two-parter. Shotaro even directly brings that up at the start of the episode when Terui attacks an un-transformed Kujo.

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It?s maddening, because it renders any time spent with Kujo as moot, since she just goes crazy in the end. Saeko explicitly states that overuse of Gaia Memories renders the user into a crazed monster, so we?re not even allowed the narrative weight of Kujo choosing her own fate. Nope, she?s a drugged lunatic, and that?s that.

Not at all the case. It's made clear that Kujo was already a vengeance crazy lunatic to begin with. The Gaia Memory overdoes only exacerbated the problem. She chose her fate long before getting drugs involved.

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And that finale? boy, not my fave! Terui shows up just to be the grim executioner of the woman he barely shared a single scene with in this episode,

We had all of Part 1 for that.

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and any empathy you might hope for from Team Double is left to Terui?s judgment.

Shotaro shows empathy when telling Kujo to turn herself in and letting her walk off. He also shows empathy for Terui in letting him handle the situation, seeing how important the whole situation is to him.

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But then there?s a new cannon attachment for Accel? And he blows up the giant version of the Triceratops Dopant? And that?s how we end this story of regret and rage?

A Kamen Rider episode ending with a new toy and a fight. Boy, what a shock.

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(He just immediately assumes Kujo?s turning herself in, and does not investigate it at all! Wow! Great follow-through, bud!)

Except that he does. He stakes out the Police Headquarters to make sure she shows up. It's his misguided faith that gets him to leave the scene early. Maybe not investigated in the most thorough way, but still investigated.

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-I hate that Shroud appearance! So much! Completely dumb!

Not really sure what separates this one from any other.

You're fine to not like these episodes, but alot of these complaints I just really don't get.