[MarsHottentot]

Apparently Kiriya was pretty popular in Japan, too, which got Toei Twitter in some oyu earlier today:

"Episode 12 of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid saw the sudden and tragic death of a fan favorite character, Kujo Kiriya, who transforms into Kamen Rider Lazer.

In response to the episode, Toei tweeted out a now deleted hashtag message via their Toei News account.

The message read “なんできりやすぐ死んでしまうん” or “Why does Kiriya die so soon”, which was a quote from the anime movie Grave of the Fireflies” (Originally “なんで蛍すぐ死んでしまうん” or “Why do fireflies die so soon”) replacing “fireflies” with “Kiriya”."

Contextually, this was seen to be in poor taste and the tweet became a top trender before Toei deleted it.

Now the important part:
"The production team are also very much aware of the love for the character and passed along a message reading:

“To those who loved the character, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you very much.”

Shortly after the episode aired, the Toei Fanclub app sent out notifications to viewers that orders are open for the Kamen Rider Lazer memorial T-shirt."*

NANI KA?!?!


http://www.toei.co.jp/release/mobile/1208810_973.html