[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by MidnightsYulia

I guess the easy answer is that Kuuga just left a lasting impression for me because I was so shocked at how brutal the Grongi were. Some monsters in these shows are practically harmless while others may consume a few humans as a food source, but the Grongi kill thousands as a game. There are untold casualties in newer ones (especially when towns are wrecked) but Kuuga's show telling the death count was very impactful and kept me on my toes. It gave a sense of urgency for Godai and the others to defeat the bad guys.

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Plus, I was kinda shocked to see how society adapted to these monsters in the show. The mini-arc with Nana's acting audition for example, were she's asked to portray someone who is under attack by a Gorungi (I think) and a competitor tells her she got an easy task because Nana's teacher has been killed by one. Damn.

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Personally I mostly remember how society didn't adapt to these monsters. Just about every arc, the body count is anywhere from a dozen to hundreds. If you tallied it all up, there had to have been over a thousand or so causalities in this isolated area of one Japanese region. And yet most people are still living their day-to-day lives like everything is normal, except maybe being just a little bit scared of the monsters. It's hard to take those numbers seriously after a certain point.

The body count is alternately terrifying and completely ludicrous, depending on which episodes you watch. Like, the ones where it opens with a Grongi already racking up a death toll in the hundreds, horrifying. My mind fills in the blanks and I'm unnerved. Or, when a little kid in the finale is like, "Are my mom and dad going to be killed? Am I going to be killed?" Not scared, just curious. Everyone else is getting killed, so it's probably just their turn. That shit is chilling.

But the ones where a Grongi just runs around Tokyo killing a dozen shoppers in a plaza, or swimmers at a beach, it's just... why are you living like this in the midst of an ongoing, months-long monster attack? It's not like later series, where it's a guarded secret or an urban legend that monsters are killing people. This is all over the news! At a time in history where people believed in the news! Monsters exist! They are killing hundreds of random people each week! Nowhere is safe! The police are powerless to help you! LEAVE TOKYO FOREVER!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

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Y'see. The thing about that is. I'm really really dumb

Look, I should be the last person to chide someone for forgetting something they wrote. These things happen!