[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

After this, things stay pretty strong for quite a while, if I remember correctly. You've got a lot of fun, and some pretty crazy stuff coming up

Edit: Oops, didn't see your newest post. Surprised you didn't get into the Cross-Z Magma debut. I remember people really digging that whole episode. There's still more pretty great stuff coming before the next slowdown though

Look, I'm here to talk about things that really matter, like interesting cinematography and the ways the show deploys exposition in clever ways, not minutiae like "new suits". This is rigorous academic work!

Seriously, yeah, probably could've spared a few words for Banjou's upgrade! Wouldn't've killed me!

I'm still not terribly into Banjou's whole Dragon aesthetic, and I'm not sure it plays into what I think the Build suit offers as a design template. (Love the Rogue suit, so I'm probably being a hypocrite.) Magma is a step up from Charge, but I don't think it's as solid as the base Cross-Z suit. It's a little top-heavy to me, with a lot going on around the back and shoulders without balancing it with the lower body. Also, and it's a little hard to tell so far from the one weirdly-lit scene I've had with it, I don't think the orange of the base suit plays that well. I'm getting less "the unstoppable heat of the Earth's molten core" and more "the SpaghettiOs are cooling off enough to eat". Maybe I'm wrong! Maybe it's a scorching color under different lights! But, no, it didn't do that much for me, aesthetically (Banjou's suits just don't mesh to me) or narratively (unlike Sento's, Banjou's upgrades come off too standard to me, how he just has to believe in himself more or whatever).

Sorry I forgot to mention that! It is not a small thing!