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Originally Posted by Kurona

Aaaah, you went ahead and spoiled it! I was gonna wait until the end of the series to tell him that

My bad!

It's probably not a bad thing to have in mind while watching the series, either though.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

To add on to the 9/11 connection to Ryuki here a article in english talking about it. https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2018/08...ction-to-9-11/

Ahh, it's all coming back to me now! I think that exact article is where I first heard that. What that article doesn't mention that I find most fascinating is that apparently Shirakura is the one who decided teaching kids about justice meant doing something morally complex and challenging. The guy gets a lot of flack for things that are probably entirely deserved sometimes, but I think refusing to do a show that professes justice to a be a singular, unquestionable thing proves he has a good grasp on what the core values of the franchise are.

Winding it back to the Showa era with more historical trivia I only learned recently, the original Kamen Rider generally avoided being described as fighting simply for the nebulous concept of justice, but rather the specific cause of human freedom. This, too, was apparently a conscious decision since even the Nazis, whose fascistic dogma was of course a huge inspiration for bad guy groups like Shocker, would tell you they're in the right.

This uh- this conversation ended up getting pretty deep all of a sudden, huh? Man, hard to believe we're barely past Raia's introduction. Sorry if I'm making things a little heavy!