[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Sanako loses her shit on Yui herself too... her own relative, that she kicks her out too just like the 2 strangers at her house, balanced treatment much?

Yui's being just as mopey at breakfast as the other two, so she deserves being scolded as much as them. Auntie's got it right in this one!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So yeah the car moves? The reflection on its windows change when the car moves so it affects what happened in Mirror World too.

But I'm pretty sure we've never seen empty vehicles moving around in Mirror World, have we?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Can we talk about Shiro suddenly giving him Survive card? It's one of the complaints of Ryuki where Shinji's final form feels unearned for some.

We can, and I don't get those complaints. It's maybe "unearned", but it's still pretty interesting to me because him getting the card is a curse. This isn't some helpful bonus, this a thing that makes fights last longer and creates more conflict. It is a bad thing that Shinji got that card, at least in that it's more likely Ren could be killed. (That's not to say I think Shinji would try to kill Ren, but when both sides have stronger weapons, it's more likely someone dies.) If people are like, "he didn't earn it", I mean... no shit! He's being manipulated by a bloodthirsty gamemaster into potentially killing his best friend! He did not get a gift!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I am shaking with excitement just thinking about the end of episode 34. First time I saw it, I only barely grasped the story stuff, but the sight of Ryuki and Knight facing off with flames all around them before Ryuki used Survive left a permenant image in my mind.

Watching it again later, I realised it really is just a perfect scene that I think encapsulates all of Shinji's best traits. His dramatic (downright heroic) declaration that he simply will not die, and telling Ren there's no going back once you've taken a life, it's like... If I didn't quite get his character before, I definitely got it at this moment. He'll see all these fights to the end, no matter what, for himself and for Ren...

That he says all this while Revolution plays for the first time just makes it especially amazing. For a long time, I forgot Ryuki had insert songs other than that one!

Wow, let's all give our thanks to Kanzaki Shiro for bringing us the medium for all this drama. Maybe I will vote for 'FIGHT' if another poll comes up.

That Revolution song is really good. I'm shit with calling out the music in these shows, for the most part. I definitely can't speak too critically about them, beyond "I liked it" or "Was there a song playing".

It's a pretty climactic part of the story for Ren and Shinji. This fight needed to feel inescapable, necessary. If it was just Okay Fine Let's Fight Again, it'd feel too perfunctory, like the hand of the writer. Instead, it's got this pull to it, like this was the only thing that could happen next. And it's the best kind of Hero Fight, where I'm not really rooting for anyone in it. They're both in an impossible position, narratively, and it makes the conclusion of the episode, the cliffhanger of Ryuki Survive vs Knight Survive, epic.