[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I always saw the Buildad stuff (love that nickname by the way!) as the show's way of doing something that let Sento act on the fact that he's Takumi in a more direct manner than just "I feel guilty for things I don't remember doing", but uh... yeah...

What I'll say for now is that Build is not a perfect show.

Okay, dammit, now you're making me think of one more thing I liked about this storyline. Stop getting me to let these episodes off of the hook!

One of the threads that was well-executed were the scenes in Build's head, where Sento and Takumi debated how much they should or should not believe/forgive Buildad. There's some good use of their differences to inform their viewpoints. Sento, who remembers up to Buildad's disappearance and the last year, he wants to believe in the man who raised him, the man whose steps he followed in as a scientist. How could that man be this monster? But Takumi, he lived those years of Buildad's absence. He knows what Buildad worked on, his partnership with Evol(t), his culpability in Banjou's circumstances, the betrayal at being abandoned and now lied to. He doesn't see him through a child's forgiving eyes, like Sento. He sees him as a man, and can't forgive the choices he's made. That, you know, that was some good writing. Applied to a storyline that never should've been produced, but still! Good writing.