[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by BagJo

Oh man Die, you get it. THIS is part of the brilliance of Faiz.

There's this almost dark comedy aspect to Faiz that really does it for me. This is going to be a fun thread.

Yeah, it... someone asked before about Amazons, and how this compared, and I think I have a better answer now. Amazons is What If It's More Violent But Still Heroic, while Faiz is What If It's The Same Violent But Everyone's Horrible. I found Yuka's story, from her getting a towel thrown at her at breakfast to just falling over dead at the end, to be so funny that it's seared into my brain.

I don't want this to sound like I found this episode So Bad It's Good or anything. There's a ton of really funny stuff that's clearly funny on-purpose, and some genuinely creepy stuff in other scenes. It's just the Yuka stuff that is insane, but it's insane in a way that I'm not even a little mad at.

I've got this friend, and she'll tell stories about her day, her life, and the longer you let her tell these stories the more horrifying they start to get. But she's fine, and she's having fun telling these stories, so you can't help but laugh. It's someone letting you know it's okay to laugh at these otherwise horrible events, even if it's only because it's too sad to contemplate. The Yuka story was like that, where I wasn't invested in the story of a teenage girl's suffering, I was watching a TV show where an actor was getting basketballs thrown at them until they cried. Like, even typing that sentence is making me laugh. There's this unreality to Inoue's melodrama here that makes it so goddamn funny to me.