[Kamen Rider Die]

GodDAMN! That is some authoritative Kuuga talking! I'm learning a ton about the production history of the show (that story about the director!) and some new personal problems I'm going to have with Fish Sandwich, like the fact that he calls Godai "Yuusuke", which is a) disrespectful, b) tricky for me to remember, c) disrespectful.

Anywho, this thread is amazing, I can't contribute much, certainly not on the Galaxy Brain level Fish can, but here's a couple things now that he's done an A+ job:

KAMEN RIDER DIE BARELY REMEMBERS WATCHING MASKED RIDER KUUGA EPISODES 1 - 2

-That white suit. I really like that white suit. It sells the idea of this being a blank slate to build upon, the start of a new legend. (I just made that up, FYI.) It also somehow looks weak, which is maybe an insane thing to say about a Kamen Rider suit. Great design and a great way to kick it all off.

-I love how high-strung Ichijou is with Godai in the hospital, how mad he gets at him. It's slightly out-of-character for Ichijou, which makes it happening here feel so impactful. He's incredibly mad at Godai for not being as dedicated as he should be to justice. It's a neat choice to have Ichijou get wildly melodramatic. Not an all-the-time good idea, but it helps calibrate the relationship between our two heroes.

-That first episode thing of Godai talking to the camera is still so weird to me. It's only in the first episode, I'm pretty sure, and while it's a neat way to fill out his character, it's also weirdly distracting if it's not in the usual language of the show. You can either (for me) break the fourth wall all the time, or never break the fourth wall. Doing it one time, and one time only, is so weird.