[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

And to think, with all the wealth he had obtained, Sano could have retired in just three days...

No, between my first viewing of Ryuki as a child back in 2002 (it could have been 2003), and before re-watching it in 2013, my memories on a lot of the show was very spotty. There were several things that still left a permanent impression on my mind though. Among things like Odin's Time Vent nonsense, Ryuki using the Survive Card, Alternative's first appearance... of course Imperer's death. It messed me up for life (And I am grateful for it)!

I'm not even sure what I'm going to remember from this show a year from now. At least from the first 44 episodes, the Top 3 are probably going to be:





and Kitaoka's silent Henshin.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I don't know if The First and The Next are on your viewing list, but the former devotes a huge portion of its runtime to a subplot involving two seemingly unrelated characters just so the film can pull off a last-minute tragic plot twist. There are a lot of times when you can feel Inoue really straining to create that cathartic moment for the audience that, to me at least, makes them feel so forced.

Sano's death, for the record, is one of the cases where I think it works. I didn't even like the guy but damn do I feel for him.

Yeah, I feel like four episodes or whatever was the perfect amount of space to tell Sano's story. It's a pretty discrete arc. Even the huge twist of My Old Man Died, it works for it all to be sudden and unexpected.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

It's such a shame that's the bit I liked more in The First and not any of the actual Rider drama. Maybe Inoue shoud get into making Romcoms someday.

Look, if you're proposing Kamen Rider Always Be My Maybe, yes, I would absolutely watch that.