[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Allow me to make a totally underwhelming and anti-climactic response post to all of that by simply saying, yeah, the first time I saw that explosion from Rising Mighty? "HOLY SHIT!!!" at the top of my lungs.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I knew I'd forgotten something, because YEAH, WOW, OH MY GOD

Am I that guy? I guess I'm going to be that guy. I don't really like the big explosions of Rising Mighty.

(Look, in a Fish Sandwich Rewatches thread, you can't exactly have Fish Sandwich coming in to play the contrarian. I'm happy to cosplay as that character, at least this once.)

The enormous body count in this series frequently gets brought up by Kuuga detractors as being so depressingly high that it loops around to being unrelatable. Ten people dead is a tragedy, ten thousand dead is a statistic, you know? There's a point where the scale increases and your brain just doesn't have a space for it.

The visual of Kuuga accidentally detonating a... I don't know, a district, it's just too much for me. It takes it from the realm of the personal, the specific, Kuuga on his own versus a monster, and turns it into special effects, makes it feel gratuitous.

I get that there's supposed to be a danger to Rising Mighty, to the Grongi, and that all of this should start to feel cataclysmic. It's just, for me, that escalation started to make it less heroic. It's not a hero fighting to save humanity at the cost of his own, it's whichever monster can blow up the most stuff.

Like, I get it, your mileage may vary. There's a more gritty, endangered feel to Kuuga than another show. Things being this dangerous, I guess that works for a lot people. It's just, the introduction of Rising Mighty makes Kuuga feel less like a proector and more like a natural disaster, and I'm just not as into that.