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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Ryuki
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03-15-2020, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Also btw, before Ren also made a point about being stronger in fighting when you have a stakes to fight, a good reason to live, like his girlfriend for Ren, which he criticizes Shinji for not having one (and he responds by the 30,000 yen debt to drive him forward). So I think it's not about fighting for yourself but about what drives and motivates you to keep fighting?
I think it's both? I think Ren's thing is very much You Need A Reason To Fight, that's something he tried to shake Shinji with. But Kitaoka knows Ren has a reason to fight, he just thinks it's childish and naive, when adults only should care about themselves. (As an adult, I think Kitaoka is on to something.)
I didn't mention it before, but I think it's great how Kitaoka, an actual terrible human being, completely sees through Ren's black leather jacket brooding bullshit for the empathetic, lonely boy he is. Kitaoka knows this dude for about eight seconds before he's like Ha Ha You Want To Be Friends With Shinji. Kitaoka! So great!
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Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Also even if it's misguided, can we talk the cool
human
moment where Shinji catches Ren's punch to punch Kitaoka himself?!?! Because Shinji deserves to punch Kitaoka more for almost indirectly killing him.
That
is
great, yes. I really like how
volatile
Shinji is as a protagonist. He burns hotter, you know? (Red suit! Dragon! Motifs!) After a bunch of chill dudes and sweet boys, I like that Shinji's kindness is balanced by getting in people's faces and telling them off.
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Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Shinji's injury from episode 9 comes as an important plot point here, when Shimada and Okubo accuses him again as the kidnapper because that's the same spot where Shimada bit the kidnapper's hand, but Shinji reveals it's a huge bruise to convince them otherwise. I guess it's a good thing he kept his pride up against Yui and Ren regarding this injury before when he came home late this time.
The arm injury... it maybe bugged me a little bit? We knew Shimada bit her kidnapper's hand, we even see it again in the flashback, but she says she hurt his
arm
. They make it "arm" so we can have a brief moment of Shinji's Kamen Rider Scumbag-inflicted injury get mistaken for damning proof, okay, sure. It's just, Shimada has to remember it just wrong enough for the two to overlap. It seems a little belabored to me, is all. It's only for a one minute gag, it doesn't overstay its welcome, so I'm not too put out. Still, thought that bit didn't land.
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Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Regarding Kitaoka, as my post
here
said, I have to also talk about
my favorite Final Vent at ALL time!
That is Zolda's End of World!! The point of finisher is to use everything you have in devastating result to make sure you totally win. Zolda's Final Vent is definition of that, firing EVERYTHING he has in his arsenal, be it guns, cannons, missiles, lasers, etc. no matter who or what the opponent is.
I didn't have a good way to bring it up (who has time to talk about toku action when there's so much quality drama), so thanks for reminding me. It is an
awesome
Final Vent. I like that the show goes from Handgun, to Cannon, to Full Gundam. I can't even imagine what a late-series upgrade there could be for Kitaoka: Tactical nuke? Orbital Strike?
Unicron?
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Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Yui was the one described it as "just her personality"/"kind of person she is" when Auntie asked her to smile in that episode.
That is
exactly
how I describe my introversion when I'm frustrated with family. I know that move, Yui!
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