[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

This is definitely painful, though I will tell you right now to make your life that much easier, at least with the few post-Decade series you have left? Do not bother in the slightest with every single HBV and big crossover stuff in terms of where they fit in. During your watching of a series, only concern yourself with where the crossover movie goes and where the big summer movie goes. Only those will have any real relevance to following and understanding the series - hell, many of them don't even have that - and the rest you can just leave until after. Also, since you're going to be caught up relatively soon considering the rate you're watching this stuff? Fun fact: we in the west don't get the movies when they come out. We have to wait for months until the DVD is released and then probably an extra week for subbers to complete it and put it out. So if Zero-One's movies end up being really plot-relevant well, um, what can I say but fuck. I can only imagine the hell people who were watching Den-O when it was airing went through...

Yeah, in general I'm just looking to fit the theatrical movies (winter, spring, summer) where they would've debuted in Japan, and the Sentai crossover episode, and that's about it. Like, the Movies sub-heading on the Wiki, and maybe one or two of the bigger Specials. Everything else stays in a folder until the end of the series and I get through it then.

The only plot-relevant theatrical movie I can think of that I've seen so far was the Dr. Pac-Man movie. There's a chunk about Emu's origin that gets revisited a few times in the main series, and since that was the first Kamen Rider theatrical movie I saw, it might've made me erroneously assume that all Kamen Rider theatrical movies have heavy continuity with the main series. Which HA HA, Jesus, do they not.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

... so! With all the continuity rubbish out the way, my problem with Akari is the problem I have with a lot of scientist side-characters in shows like this that deal with supernatural elements -- when faced with undeniable truth that supernatural things do exist, they instantly say "that's unscientific", and rather than that be a dumb flaw they have to get over, they just keep saying it. That just really gets to me because it's treating science like some sort of religious scripture; this unchanging truth which must be adhered to and doesn't ever alter. But science is very much a reactionary thing; if new proof is offered that disproves what we previously knew, then we have to change that and have to come up with new hypotheses and such for why these things exist. Ghosts exist now, Akari; it's your goddamn job to explain how they exist and why; not keep droning on about how it's "unscientific" until the end of the series. The only reason ghosts and ghouls are unscientific is because there is of course no conclusive proof in the real world that they exist; but you're staring at ghosts every day! You saw a giant portal explode in the sky! YOU'RE TALKING TO YOUR DEAD FRIEND!

Admittedly that's kind of a nitpick, but... it's one of those little things that gets to me. Otherwise I actually like her enough.

It's a fair criticism. The Onari/Akari "It's the divine mystery of the universe"/"Science is real and this doesn't make sense" routine is a fairly didactic dynamic. It doesn't seem (yet?) like they're seeing things from each other's perspective in a way that you'd assume they'd HAVE to by this point in the series, but maybe they'll get there.