[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Either way, wow, was looking forward to this one. Build's ending is a very controversial one, and even as someone who loves Build more than any other Rider bar OOO... I will have to say that it's despite that ending. There's a lot of things about it that I like, pretty much you've already gone over it; Rogue's death, SentoXBanjou, the thematics of creating a new world... but how they get there is so, so important, and it was done just so awfully here that I can't help but headcanon my own ending and rewrites.

In general Build is a series I feel falls off hard in the last third and I've got a lot of problems with that, but as I said; second favourite rider. Still adore it, still love so much of what it did, and you've gone a long way in reminding me just what it is I did like about it. Great thread!

Thanks for letting me talking about this show! Like all of you, I'm sure, I have a lot of thoughts about Kamen Riders and their shows, and it's necessary for my mental health (and the health of my IRL friendships) to have a spot to get those thoughts out with folks that share an appreciation for motorcycle-riding superheroes.

For Build, hmm, yeah, that ending. Gaim had a similar thing for me, where I'd look at the ending arc and think back to the beginning arc and go, "Why did I need to know all of those things that are completely irrelevant now?" And I liked the beginning arc for Build! The apocalyptic battle against Evol(t) just feels a world away (sorry) from the Warring States stuff in the first two-thirds of Build. It's too big, too divorced from the motivations the characters previously had. Like, just bringing the Sky Wall down would've felt like a huge ending to me. A whole new world is maybe too grandiose? But it's so happy for everyone I can't be too mad at it? I don't know. Endings like this, I feel like I gotta let it sit with me for a minute.

Good to know that I can watch New World, sad to hear it may not be great. Oh no!