[AkibaSilver]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I think Build has a lot of The Value Of Empathy in it, though. The war genre, it can be very Us Against Them, which seems to play into Fighting Darkness With Darkness... but I feel like Build is constantly digging deeper, playing against expectations, and trying to get to the human cost of war, the motivations and sacrifices, the ways that ideology can fade into survival, how empathy is both a liability and the only answer to eternal conflict.

But it also constantly has the heroes doing new, worse things to themselves (the Hazard Trigger, nebula gas overdoses, plus Banjou's entire backstory) just so they can fight on the same level as whatever evil has pushed itself up to. Even up to the very final V-Cinema, it's playing on those same themes, with a surprising mix of both. I fail to see how the two are incompatible, tbf.