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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Guess this is why I bring this up to you, in an OOO thread, albeit you claim you'd acknowledge the other two's flaws too (I'm only on the fence about Fourze regarding this). But dunno about acknowledging flaws and listening to fair complaints part, which I struggle with as well, that you must agree on said complaints without debating (perhaps like those liking less received shows by just acknowledging said show as flawed and that it's their guilty pleasure), and that if one explains or defends about a complaint if one feels they catch something that needs to be explained to said people, it means you're not listening and dismissing them.

No, not without debating. Debating is the important part! If a complaint cannot stand up to challenge, then it will fall apart, so I will confront and debate to get closer to the truth of the argument, no matter which way that may lead. No such thing as a credible point that hasn't been challenged first. Another important part is that even if I acknowledge a flaw, it doesn't necessarily diminish my own enjoyment. Subjective experience is unique for each person after all.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 42 - ?ICE, BECOMING A GREEED, AND THE BROKEN WINGS?

It?s recontextualizing that image of a hand reaching out, into hands reaching for each other. Eiji fights for Hina, and Hina fights for Eiji. Eiji is pulled back from the brink while he?s lifting up others. It?s the concept of desire as a reciprocal machine, adding life and vibrancy to a world, rather than deducting it through hunger. It?s about protecting everyone, even those who?d protect us. Heroism can as big as saving the world, and as small as keeping one person safe. Everything?s heroic.

That's right, heroism isn't about selflessness or selfishness, it's just about protecting people's happiness. Eiji is a hero for everybody else, but who will be a hero for Eiji? There's Ankh, but he's so focused on his own personal problems that he's unreliable. So it's good that Hina cares about Eiji and pushes him to put himself first more. She's the bridge between them that makes their toxic friendship a little healthier. But she's also in a place where Eiji and Ankh have mostly made up their minds, so she can do little but watch sadly as they walk further towards ruin with self-destructive actions.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

That character's look is too iconic! There was no way they'd make Ankh a suit monster or a floating hand. Ankh knows that that face pays the bills!

As a certain cafe master once said: "What kind of villain could be as stylish as me?"

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

The one with a gratuitous flashback to the creation of the Core Medals, which leaves me with one question: If they were created by a European monarch, why are the announcements in Japanese and English, rather than, I don?t know, German and French?

Technically, English is also a European language. Anyway, King was clearly an eccentric like his cake-loving descendant, so it seems futile to question his methods.

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Originally Posted by GodSpeedLove

I will say, I may be in the minority here, but this is probably my favorite group of villains in Rider because of how poorly they work together. I really am not a fan of most of the villains in Rider, I feel like every episode is taken up by at least ONE scene of the league of villains talking vaguely in a room about some vague plan that inevitably is just "let's send a monster of the week". I find it incredibly boring, and I never end up caring about any of the villains! At least here they've got their own personalities and interests, albeit a bit repetitive. Anyone else feel the same way? Maybe Rider's heroes are just so lovable any non main characters pale in comparison...

I mean, not for this example, as I find the non-Ankh Greeeds to be mostly unsympathetic. But I generally prefer villains who feel like actual people with personal goals and motivations, instead of like, Unidentified Lifeforms from Kuuga. A big part of Faiz's appeal for me is how Orphenochs are people first, which allows the narrative to explore the meaning of humanity, in the opposite way that Ryuki explored the concept of Kamen Riders who are monsters.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Symbolizing this, it'd also be visually incoherent too, since the undersuit for PuToTyra is uniquely silver, bright enough to border on looking white depending on the lighting, which would of course be the exact opposite of the black that ties every other OOO form together.

Wait, the undersuit is silver?! Is there like some kind of Detail Of Heroes thing that shows this clearly? Is it the same shade of silver as Build Genius?

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I just really love PuToTyra and the Purple Medals in general, by the way? There's plenty more good stuff to say just about the suit, of course (using the winged Ptera as the head to keep some continuity with TaToBa's hawk face, as just one more example), but more than that, I really like how their introduction turns the entire narrative in such a massive way for both the heroes and the villains alike, while placing a particular focus on Eiji as an individual. I think in that sense especially, PuToTyra really puts the final in final form, because its mere existence sort of seems to *urge* the whole story towards its conclusion in a way I find super neat.

Yeah, other than being one of the coolest Final Forms both aesthetically and functionally, I appreciate how Putotyra's introduction totally changes the status quo for the remainder of the show and how the absence of desire makes it a power unique to Eiji, in contrast to the tyrant King.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

2) Toei reusing the big chunk of city flipping over effect in the Ex-Aid/Build team-up (which I want to say is the one that also featured OOO and Fourze).

I don't remember that, but I definitely remember it in Ghost Episode 4!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

but given Eiji?s fear of snakes, which briefly comes up here, there?s the perfect explanation as to why BuraKaWani never appears again.

That didn't stop Batman.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I obviously can't list all examples, but though this might not be serious, you do object to Fish celebrating those who hurt themselves for the sake of good. Otherwise, an example (in this website) of what's said as hypothetical here is this:

Oh, I remember this quote. I think it was from a Geats thread?