[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Yeah, it sounds like a typical creepy thing to complain how Himeka sends false signals, but in this case, calling everybody a knight in shining armor and all the hugging is pretty confusing. While Nightmare gets brought to justice by a rare Metal Illusion, Himeka hasn't exactly done anything illegal or learned anything, so she's basically free to keep misleading people like this. Not surprising that poor Shoutarou is totally done with this at the end.

It's a story where I'm not even sure what the audience is supposed to have learned from all this. There's a brief moment when it looks like Shotaro is getting through to Himeka, helping her see how she's put her childish fantasies above the feelings of those around her... but then, nope, she's exactly the same as before, cue typewriter noises. I don't think a Kamen Rider adventure needs an explicit moral or lesson in it all the time, but it's especially rough to not have one in a two-parter that's otherwise anchored by teases for upcoming stories.