[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Some clever, unnecessary directing choices in this one, and I 100% approve.

I'm running out of unique ways to say this, but this episode is once again Ishida's work, and if that spotlight bit with Mari doesn't prove it, nothing will. I think moments that extreme are basically him taking a "boring" scene as a challenge? The episodes of Agito where Shouichi first gets his memories back were him too, which, even though you liked all that stuff a lot less, means the color-coded plot threads was something he came up with, too. No idea why the camerawork itself had to be so shaky, but it does show how outside the box he's willing to go, for better or for worse.

Anyway, Kaixa's "introduction". I love it. It's hard to call it this coming right after Ryuki, but Faiz is kind of THE subversive Rider show to me, and I can't think of many things that symbolize that better than the brand new, amazing cool hero you should buy toys of dying three times right away. Faiz gets so much mileage out of treating the belts as pieces of equipment anyone can use. Seeing Kaidou as Faiz, and random nobodies as Kaixa, all of this stuff has such a novelty factor, and legitimately makes the story more interesting on top of that. It's awesome.