[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Sano's death is one of the Toshiki Inoue-est moments in all of Kamen Rider. It works and is really memorable, but it has a very specific flavor of pathos that is classic Inoue.

Dude loves his melodrama!

Like, I get what folks don't like about Inoue on Ryuki. Everything's turned up to 11: the humor, the drama, the everything. (He's the man who gave us DOUBLE SURGERIES a year earlier, so it's not like this is unexpected.) And, yeah, that can lead to him not, uh, finding nuance where another (better?) writer might.

But, man, there're points you really need to play it to the cheap seats, and when that happens, Inoue's your guy. He plays it to the goddamn parking lot.