[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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!

Her actual name's finally mentioned now in this episode. Why mopey folks should be scolded? Afterwards do you feel like the amusement park scene (a staple for various tokus!) are filler, or it's just a set up for character spotlight as per Kobayashi's sthick? I still want to talk about Ren and Shinji being afraid of dogs.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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

Probably because the vehicles don't move at all in real world either.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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!

I'll borrow and use your explanation for those complaints. Though with Survive fights only last longer against like, other Survives, standard "evening the playing field". If both sides have stronger weapons actually it's even. Riders are even against other Riders, Survives are even against other Survives (uhh you seem to contradict yourself; Survive makes fights last longer, but you say with stronger weapons, more likely someone dies, which sounds like the fight is concluding faster with the death of someone). Against other regular Riders, Survive will make the fights significantly shorter (to survive is to win, getting rid of your threats like other Riders more quickly). Other than Shinji, Ren is also manipulated by the bloodthirsty gamemaster.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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.

Other than that, Ren's conflict as I explained above, Ren is also forced to choose between Eri or his friends, he can't have both, all with Shiro smirking on the background.