[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Yep, that was him. His actor is one of those guys who loved his time on the show and will come back any time he's given the chance.

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

That's definitely part of what makes Asakura so great. You can totally tell his actor loved playing the character.

Yeah, he throws himself into it. It's cool that he had a good time, but I'm almost a little surprised? There's an intensity to his performance, that, like, I would be less surprised if someone said he was a classically-trained actor who hated his time working in the kids-show gutter. He's approaching his character... it's pitched between Dramatic Supervillain and Violent Animal. There's a space in there, and that space is, for me, Asakura. It's raw and real in a way that's totally distinct from the other actors on this show.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Not only one person, but pretty much everyone else btw (dunno if a joke but drop the "white knight bs" there as I'm talking about everyone). Though I already explained, outright telling anyone Rider/Mirror stuff is not an easy task to do. No one will believe that (a cliche for unknown fantasy elements in a seemingly normal world), Yui's someone who gets labelled as a freak for telling people about the Mirror stuffs, other Riders likely wouldn't care, dunno for Shinji, Reiko has a freak experience with Shimada.

I don't know, I guess I feel like Reiko could handle it? Yui's experiences, aren't most of those when she's a little kid? At least, the ones that we've seen on the show so far have been. I'd hope Reiko would be a little more curious and understanding than a group of six-year olds?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Sure, probably yeah conflicts are more entertaining but for Ryuki case, getting along (and no it's obviously not everyone, I also don't want everyone to just strictly get along but here's only Shinji and Tezuka among Riders, not every Riders) is such a rarity I want that to be remembered. I also made a cover about interesting parts (to me) for Tezuka and Shinji's monster fight there before.

No, yeah, it's nice to see Riders team-up, or at least find commonality. So much of the last two episodes has been the push-and-pull of Shinji and Tezuka trying to work together, and it's led to some rewarding scenes when they're able to fight together.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I mean that's already the policy of living in Atori established before to Shinji back then, you can live without paying, but you have to help out at the cafe's working time (Shinji's in evening). Tezuka as in the discussion before moves in there, so he "pays" by helping out there just like Shinji and Ren, especially that Shinji's at work and Ren and Yui are MIA. I'd like to see how Tezuka interacts with the customers there but we didn't get that.

It's weird! It's a weird policy. I know that it's because Auntie's got a gut feeling on who's good or bad or whatever, but it's a weird way to run a business. I think that's fair to say! I think Auntie just likes having handsome young men around, if we're being honest.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

No Rider is not about killing monsters except Shinji and Tezuka tbh, but killing monster is necessary to feed their contract monster (and an easy show of Final Vent without immediately killing another Rider). He almost killed Ren in ep. 17. Shibaura is lowkey as irreedeemable as Asakura, but he's not a violent type of person, he only sees human lives as a stress toy for him to play. But how he runs the war is a reminiscent of video games (and the death games he created) being a gamer, to watch and participate in Battle Royale like playing irl Fortnite or something. Just as a note obviously Ryuki came much earlier and it's inspired by Highlander.

Sure, Shibaura's a puppet-master. He's a game designer, and his main thing so far has been manipulating people into fighting to the death. He'll kill monsters to survive, but it's not really his thing. We all gotta eat to live, but I don't think I'd say that every human is about eating. There's what we do to survive, and what we do to get what we want. That's... that's sort-of one of the themes of Ryuki? Where those impulses overlap, or conflict? I don't know, just a thought.

I can see the Highlander influence, sure, but Ryuki came out just a few years after Battle Royale, which probably added to the DNA of this show. And since Fortnite was just ripping off PUBG which was ripping off Battle Royale...