[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I've really enjoyed your written thoughts on this whole show. Even when our opinions don't line up, it was always fun to see you articulate how you felt about or what you took away from every few episodes.

Aw, thanks! Yeah, I also enjoy seeing other people's views on stuff I like. It's rarely going to change my mind (I don't think you can make people feel differently about art?), but it's always cool to see what connects or doesn't connect with people.

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Grease and Rogue both had powerful exits, but while I think I found myself thinking 'this is taking a while' during Grease and Misora's scene at one point, I was totally blown away by Rogue's last stand. The broken helmet, that shadow, the music as he flashbacks through his entire journey as a character from the start. So good.

I mean, it was good. I guess I just liked the, the vulnerability, for lack of a better word, of the Grease exit. It had this inevitability to it, from him using the Blizzard Knuckle to henshin into Blizzard Grease (nice suit btw, I don't think I mentioned that, loved that the Crows' emblems were on one shoulder pad, great touch) all the way up to his slow dissolve. It was a scene that just ached, I thought. Rogue's death was a different speed: rousing, forceful, high-impact. I think it's that the Heroic Death is one that's more in the natural language of a Kamen Rider show, while the Mournful Death is one the show had to stretch a bit for. I respect the effort, you know? But, no, yeah, Rogue's death was still aces.

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I don't have anything else to say about anything that hasn't already said a hundred times by others or even myself. I will just add that even though everybody believed the merging of the worlds would allow Build to have a neat segue into crossing over with Zi-O, it actually really didn't do that at all, but I'll let you see for yourself when you get there.

Oh no!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

If you haven't found it already, I believe Final Stage was subbed by Genmcorp.

Yep! Found it. I, so, I'm not sure if this a thing that's supposed to be unspoken on the boards, I don't know what the policy is, mods can let me know if this is restricted, but I usually hit two sites when I'm prepping for a show. I usually hit Nyaa for the series (I like the OZC subs better, I think that's OverTime?), and TV-Nihon for the movies and ancillary stuff. TV-Nihon didn't have the Build stage show in their batch files, so I went to get it at Nyaa tonight.

You know what my dream is? For Toei to do a streaming service for English-language audiences. I don't even know what the upper limit would be that I'd pay to have an official way to watch Kamen Rider. This hunting and gathering that we have to do, it's no way to live. We are human beings and we deserve respect.