[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I’ve always liked the idea that the Horoscopes are teachers and administrators at the school?

It's such a great idea that I take it for granted! It's like, of course the villains in the Kamen Rider show are people in a position of authority misusing their power? But first of all, that actually isn't an absolute, and second, yeah, this particular spin on it has a lot of specific merits for the high school Rider.

The plot with Miura here is an especially memorable one. You can really see how much Fourze shares a higher-than-average amount of DNA with Double from the overall concept, but it's also a story where, again, if you're doing the high school Rider, it'd probably be a waste to not do something along these lines at some point. And they did do it! And it was really fun and interesting, like most things in this series!

Also, I barely said anything on the forum about my own rewatch while I was doing it, but I did make an extremely rare exception for a particular bit of direction in episode 14 that I thought was just killer. This'll be slightly redundant since Die used part of the sequence, but just the one photo can't possibly do it justice. So, for the benefit of everyone who reads these threads without actually going back through the episodes:

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

It's directed by Hidenori Ishida, who I immediately thought was a great choice, because his focus on atmosphere meshes well with the plot needing to convey the complex feelings of someone lusting after something they know is bad for them. But then it got even better, because this scene came along:



Gentarou is made more vulnerable than ever at the worst possible time. He's completely at the mercy of the Scorpion Zodiarts, the toughest foe he's faced in the series so far, who steps uncomfortably close just to really rub it in...



The cramped room the scene takes place in has been darkly lit this entire time, because that makes the scene that much spookier. Then the next shot comes along.



Man that's some hardcore s***. The abrupt shift in lighting here is exactly the sort of thing that makes me love Ishida so much. It doesn't make sense if you consider it from a super literal in-universe perspective, but the way it enhances the feeling of the scene for the viewer draws you into the world in a way simple logic never could.