[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Magnugiga

KR shows usually aren't good in developing the world and society around the core characters anyway, especially the less episodic ones, but it's particularly noticeable in Faiz where it kinda felt like the core characters just exist in their own cocoon and keep weirdly running into each other in a world where nobody else really exist; you just don't really get a good grasp on how an Orphnoch-infested world looks like besides the very few obligatory appearances from the police character.

I think that's the trick to what's making Faiz so special, though. Instead of spending a ton of energy building out the world and then filling the space around it with character drama, Faiz is spending a ton of energy building out the character drama and then filling the space around it with world building.

And, yeah that can be a bummer for folks that'd (understandably!) expect more details on the villains or the series arc, or just get some context for what this world is like. For me, I kind-of love that everything that usually makes a Kamen Rider show a Kamen Rider show is almost totally incidental to what's most fun about this show. The other stuff is still there, and still good (that Kaixa/Horsepower team-up!), but seeing the core cast bounce off of each other is something no other Kamen Rider show can really do. (I mean, Fourze, but it wasn't really two groups like it is here.)