[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Another fun episode in terms of easter eggs.

1. The Uchusen magazine cover in particular (the one that appears when Sho and Akane chat about toku in "Starbows Coffee") features three Ultramen in their armored forms; Tector Gear Zero, Hunter Knight Tsurugi, and Andro Melos.

2. The pink wallet thing that Rikka looks at has the Matrix of Leadership on it.

3. The customer who asks Vit about the synth is voiced in the Japanese dub by Masaya Obi, who played the original Gridman host Naoto Sho in the 1993 tokusatsu show. They made it even more obvious for those who knew what he looked like at the time by using his likeness for the character. When the anime first came out I was hoping they could get Matthew Lawrence to voice him since he was Sam Collins in Syber-Squad, but oh well. Would've been cool to see, but I understand if it never worked out or the thought never really crossed the English dub staff's mind because they weren't aware of this tidbit during production.

I was aware of the second one, but the other two are neat! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Honestly, my favorite thing about this episode is probably just how easily Akane immediately makes Utsumi seem like some filthy casual by comparison? I mean I'm sure him being all sweaty and nervous around a cute girl is 99% of the problem, but "d i d y o u e v e r n o t i c e R e d K i n g i s n ' t r e d ?" is such a lame icebreaker, it's downright patronizing. It's like "Yes, Utsumi, we *all* noticed! Everyone notices that!"

The show does such a great job of balancing Akane's gleeful sociopathy with moments of visceral justification for her desire for violent retribution against society -- Utsumi is such a patronizing fandom gatekeeping dude here! He even does the Well You're A Cute Girl So I Assumed You Didn't Know Anything bit!!! Show Anti a picture of Utsumi next!!!

(I actually really loved how Akane was with him, how quickly she's like It's Not Like Every Dude Is Into Kaiju, So Why Is It Weird That A Girl Is. She's so comfortable in her fandom, and instantly disarming around Utsumi's reflexive buffoonery and regrettable peacocking. She's really connecting with him, only partially to then leverage that connection to get what she wants.)

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Well for once, a character not named in the episode is named in the credits, namely, she?s known as Anosillus II, with the original Anosillus being a monster from the OG Gridman who was associated with music (he lived with the ?computer world? of a synthesiser) and had elasticity powers. He didn?t look human, but he did have a humanoid female (specified in the original episode to be a Compoid, an inhabitant of the Computer World) partner who seemingly had something of a romance with him. Make your own conclusions.

I?ll also add that originally, the character would've been Anosillus III (since an evil knockoff of Anosillus had appeared in a later episode), before it was changed to Anosillus Jr. to make the relationship more explicit and then finally to the current name because ?Jr? is more associated with male children.

And talking of music, two recognisable theme songs can be heard. The first being that Rikka listens to Die Hollen Polizei, the theme song to the director?s (and indeed, the studio?s) first anime series, Inferno Cop.

And later, the sad piano music Anosillus II plays to wake up Yuta is the theme song to the original Gridman the Hyper Agent, known as Yume no Hero (or as it became known batter as thanks to memes, Baby Dan Dan). The group that performed this show?s theme song Union did their own cover.

Neat! Thanks!