[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Takumi overall just bears deep hatred for the Orphnochs, not too different from Kusaka, where he seems prejudiced against Yuka before, and Yuji here to force Keitaro and Mari drop their interest to them.

I don't know if I'd call it "deep hatred"? He certainly vacillates more between anger and forgiveness than Kusaka every does. A lot of Takumi's story is built around finding something to protect in some Orphnochs (he lets his pizza boss go), and when he does swear them off as a species he doesn't really mean it. Like, after Saya's death when he's gritting his teeth and swearing that All Orphnochs Must Die, Mari immediately says that doesn't sound like him.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It seems that here, Yuji didn't really fight back, I wonder if Yuji doesn't because of his emotional ties to Takumi, who he thought is a primary Faiz user. Then again he's now convinced that Takumi is a horrible person Kusaka described to him but still didn't? If he defeats Faiz right there he'll demorph into human form and it's revealed it's Kusaka wearing the belt. And instead it's Kusaka knocking him down, and serves to help his plan further by deceiving Takumi too that Yuji is stealing/wearing the Faiz belt in an attempt to hunt him.

I think it's that Yuuji is holding out hope that there's been some mistake, that Takumi has an explanation for his actions, so he doesn't want to beat him up. Takumi, however, is more ready to throw in the towel on a friendship. A lot more ready.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Also Faiz having Jet Slinger too (never realized, I thought he only has Auto Vajin, and Jet Slinger is exclusive to Delta)... would that mean Faiz (and Kaixa potentially) actually has better arsenals than Delta? He has 2 assists compared to Delta's 1 (only Jet Slinger so far).

Well, there's having it, and there's being able to use it. Delta definitely knows how to use it, while Faiz destroys his almost instantly. I'd still say Delta has the advantage in gear!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Kusaka is one of the funniest characters in Kamen Rider history. I mean, he's a horrible person and irredeemable and also maybe pitiable and whatever else, but he's hilarious. Dude is so overly tense at all times and seems to honestly believe every word out of his mouth once he's said it, even when he doesn't, which is most of the time. It's endearing after a while.

You really have to admire the iron will that guy has when it comes to his goals. Even when his stupidly obvious plan to join Lucky Clover inevitably failed, he just brushes it off and moves on like it's nothing. You never know what antics he's going to get up to next. He's so lucky his primary targets are the specific group of people they are, because if he said "Do I look like a guy who would knock you out cold and steal your stuff as part of an elaborate plan to frame you?" to most strangers, his eyebrows alone would probably tell them "yes" in a heartbeat.

The thing that kills me is that I'm sure there were plenty of people watching this, screaming at their monitors that Takumi is an idiot for trusting the obviously lying Kusaka, and it's like, that's the joke!

(Also, Kusaka's lies are perfectly calibrated to let someone's suspicions and insecurities fill in the rest, but it's all still funny as hell.)