[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Speaking off

One of the weird benefits of working through all of the Phase 1 Heisei stuff and then doing Zi-O is that I can finally play this goddamn game I bought a year ago.

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Anyway, thank you so much for these threads. I struggle a lot with explaining why I like kamen rider as much as I do, and these have help me a lot. Kamen Rider is a wonderful franchise about the exploration of power, heroism, and what is right. Ryuki from my understanding helped kick start the exploration of types of heroes. I think it's funny Kobayashi wrote two of the most influential kamen rider series (this and Den-o), both flipped the idea of what a kamen rider is. Really I'm kind of rambling here. Also pointing out that someone can still act like an asshole, but do heroic things is something you don't see a lot, especially not in the way it's done with Ren. I'm starting to realize Ryuki has a better exploration of heroism then a lot of "adult" superhero shows.

Aw, thanks! And thank you for sharing your thoughts! I only do these things to be able to talk with other fans about the shows I'm watching, so thanks for making this worth doing!

The craziest thing to me about Kobayashi and this show is that I think Ryuki succeeds in spite of a flabby structure and some lackluster worldbuilding, while her OOO series is perfectly constructed, and the villains are complex and memorable. I guess it shouldn't be "crazy", I'd hope that any writer would improve after ten years of work, but I maybe got too excited for Ryuki based on her other work?