[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by BagJo

In the 2000's Rider shows, up to maybe Den-O, falling in a decent sized body of water meant the fight is over, wet dude presumed dead. It's a thing.

Yeah, I think it's neat how comparatively restrained the power levels are in these earlier Heisei shows. Coming from the later ones where being tossed into a black hole wasn't necessarily more than, like, a brief pause in the combat, this is a nice level of danger.

Also! Speaking of bodies of water! So, probably obviously, it's nice that Shouichi's got his own motif going with bodies of water, how they represent a change state for him, rebirths, that kind of thing. But! There's this other thing going on at the end of this story, where maybe Ryou has a complicated relationship with the water, a place he used to find refuge but now feels separated from, and ending Agito in the river is, like, penance, or an offering. Aki's dead, he thinks it's Agito's fault, let the water have him.

I mean, it's a very thin interpretation, there's a couple episodes where Ryou rescues that swimmer so it's not like he's sworn off the sea or anything, but it's a thing that came to mind.