[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Second, welcome to one of Toshiki Inoue's favorite story tropes: the artist with the career ending injury. It's an easy pathos well that you will see him come back to throughout his era on Kamen Rider, including another guitarist at one point (although not nearly as well as with Kaido). I'm not saying it doesn't work here, because it really does, but it's one of those things you'll notice repeating as you watch more of this guy's work.

Yeah, there's a little echo to Kino's story from Agito, where a promising talent is cut short by tragedy. I think I like this version better, because it's more straight-forward and senseless. Like, he just crashes on his bike and gets his hand run over. It's a very quick scene, instead of weeks of slowly doling out details.

That said, and no spoilers if I'm right, but my headcanon is that the driver who ran over Kaido's hand was also the truck driver who put Yuuji in a coma. After losing his truck-driving gig, I'm thinking that he ended up becoming a girls' basketball coach at a local high school.

Again, don't tell me if I'm right! Although I think I've cracked this plot wide open!