[Fish Sandwich]

So I went skimming back through the A New Transformation special on a whim (I think I mostly wanted to see Ryou punch Houjou in motion), and I just want to take a second to mention that the new-viewer-friendly opening narration (WATCH OUR MOVIE) describes the Riders using what I think were actually like, taglines or something to promote the show throughout its run, but were almost certainly part of the elevator pitch for the show used by whoever thought up the idea to make a Kamen Rider show with more than one lead.

Really really loosely (because you tell me how to translate なってしまった in a way that stays as succinct), they're:

Shouichi Tsugami: The man who is a Kamen Rider.
Makoto Hikawa: The man who wishes to become a Kamen Rider.
Ryou Ashihara: The man who wishes he never became a Kamen Rider.

I love those descriptions so much. They convey so clearly what each character's function in the story is, and exactly how they reflect one another as protagonists. All in so few words. I've raved about this a bit in this thread already, but Agito has such... precision, I guess, in how it uses its at the time unique premise that I can't ever get enough of. Agito was actually one of the last Heisei shows I watched, so I spent a good couple years mostly just hearing about the premise like that, and seeing this perfect, beautiful trio of cool mystic looking dude, mecha-Kuuga, and gross guy, that it built up tons of hype in my mind.

I have to say, it lived up to that hype.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I'm not the only one?!

Oh no. I've seen this happen at least a few times, though it's not like I have a list written down or anything. Everyone feel free to jump in and share your story of confused reaction about Shining Form! Mine was something like "Wait... is Agito... solar-powered?"

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I still think it went hilariously too far

Kino is definitely a very Toshiki Inoue kind of character that way. It's a thing about his writing style that can bounce between being a positive and a negative, which is just how much he likes to deal in extremes, even as he handles other elements in subtle ways that make it clear he's perfectly capable of using a lighter touch.

I don't know the guy personally, obviously, but I get the feeling if you asked him why Kino couldn't just perform one surgery at a time, he'd tell you "because that's boring".

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

But then the guy playing Makoto ad-libbed a line that changed the entire context of the scene.

Wait, seriously? What line is that?