[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

so Ouja has another Contract card, which he uses to capture another monster that seeks him for revenge (Evildiver). I guess this is lowkey another difficulty of Rider War, if you properly kill other Riders, you'll get their Contract Monsters as your eternal enemy. And he has another card which is Unite Vent, to combine each of his Contract Monsters, forming Genocider (one of the things I like about Ouja, Rider-wise). It seems that Ouja's Deck is intentionally given more Contract cards as to utilize the Unite Vent.

Ouja is OP AF. This show's gotta nerf Asakura. Have they never heard of game balance? Hopefully Shiro's next patch will --- oh, wait, this isn't the video game Kamen Rider. These other guys are pretty screwed, then!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Yeah, it's so extravagant for Shiro to threaten people (which are her closest friends, by the way) just for this scenario to happen, though I can't judge if this is a writing flaw or a character flaw (like your Ren's cover in Tezuka's debut) with him by being so out of reality where he's all about TATAKAE (pacifist people? ah not they're just cowardly to TATAKAE) even on simple scenario. Which "leave on the beach" you talk about? When Shinji and Ren hide from monster or when they go with Reiko? For the former, why blame them? They are chased by a monster without their powers to fight back, driving them to hide in the building, they're again, being threatened just for a private talk. However, why Shiro didn't do this when Yui was like, kidnapped before, instead doing this when she wanders outside alone? I have to give credit to Auntie here that she relents and did properly help Shinji and Ren here. What Shiro did was actually attempting to continue his lie to her from ep. 19, using his childhood self (he never let go of that) as an excuse. I don't really think Yui felt better, she's still not convinced by him when he disappears, and compare her reaction to Shinji's vow (he only told Ren in previous episode, now he tells her here) in early episodes, to this episode. Wdym "Ren… is there, too"?

-Yui's been sad before, and Shiro never felt the need to cancel the premise of the show to cheer her up, so I'm going to lay this one at the feet of bad writing.

-When the mirror monster attacks, Ren and Shinji run for cover and just leave Yui standing on the beach. By herself. Are they that sure the monster is going to ignore Yui? Seems like a pretty big gamble. I get that she needed to stay behind to have her conversation with Shiro, but there's no in-story reason for Shinji and Ren to abandon Yui like that.

-Ren doesn't really gain anything from the scene after Yui and Shiro talk. He's just standing around. It was weird to have him just, like, waiting them to get in the car or something. He could've used some lines!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Lol, I got a feeling that you just lump that scene together for complaints. Yeah it's made to explain why Goro is so damn loyal to Kitaoka.

Right, but why are we we being told that now, in the midst of the rest of this story? I don't dislike the scene, I dislike how incongruent it is to the rest of the episode. It functions like an obligatory check-in, some contractual thing (no pun intended), rather than something that flowed naturally in the story.