[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Kusaka is as complex as most of the characters in Faiz (if not more), and while it feels kind of viscerally disgusting to say there's any real humanity in someone who treats everybody around him as an object to that level, I do think it needs to be pointed out that he's, well, like you said, maybe at least worthy of pity. Kaixa is legitimately one of my favorite secondary Riders, and while a lot of that is simply down to the black comedy joy I get from his scheming, I do genuinely think he's an interesting ("interesting") guy beyond that. It's cool to see you not writing off the show's attempts to paint him that way, Die.

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I think the way this episode tried to establish a vulnerability somewhere inside Kusaka, underneath all the layers of that gif from Finding Nemo of the seagulls going MINE, it's a bold choice. They waited until they made him his most awful (to date!) before asking you to care about why he's awful. I liked it, because I like vulnerable, complicated, awful characters. (Mitchy for life.) I'm really curious how this one played for people who don't want to be asked to have sympathy for Kusaka, though. Probably made the first two-thirds of this episode rough.