[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

And on the subject of questions, I have to ask how exciting these scenes are. Because I'm sitting here watching them, knowing exactly what these things mean, and thus knowing the show isn't just messing around when it says they're important, but it's hard not to picture an entire subplot revolving around linguistics to come as boring material for what is ostensibly an action show. You probably need to be pretty on-board with what the show is doing to really buy into this guessing game of breadcrumb trails, especially when up to this point, most of Sakurako's actual effort to solve this stuff was offscreen. These episodes go all-in on assuming you care about the difference between the Kuuga logo, and the Kuuga logo with two extra lines drawn on it, and I worry that's a tall order. I don't know. I mean, I like it, and it's very directly connected to everything else that's happening right now, so I say it's cool!

Hey! A question you've got about Kuuga that I can answer!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

All of the Sakurako (and Ichijou, for a bit) investigation stuff in Nagano, it was fine. Useful to let the high-tension Grongi stuff get to cut away for a minute, but a whole lot of stalling to tell us… honestly, I’m not sure. Something about the Kuuga symbol being a Grongi character instead of a Linto character, and a bunch about the symbol maybe having two or three or four horns. I don’t know. It looked interesting, it was a nice break from the Grongi scenes, but I don’t know what I was supposed to have learned.

So, it was boring and unclear BUT it was also useful for tension and pacing. Watching Sakurako dither over ancient linguistics was like Eating Your Vegetables for the meal that was this Kuuga story.