[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I would be down for this idea too. Just have every Delta fight from here on end with Mihara naively assuming it's his last one, and keep contriving increasingly absurd scenarios to force the belt back on him. Everyone else can be involved in this complex web of drama, where every difficult decision leads to the next, while off to the side, Mihara just can't go out for an ice cream cone without the guy selling it turning out to be an Orphenoch that wants him dead.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Fast and Furious "One last job" logic only it's the Ryuseii School alumni constantly showing up at his door and refusing to leave unless he helps them with a problem that is invariable Orphenoch related.

"Fine, there you go, I killed that hit-and-run driver who was really the Cockroach Undead. Can I go home now?"

I would be over the moon if every Delta fight going forward was an exquisitely-crafted battle for the ages, and they all end with Delta's heroic motto: "Can I go home now?"

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It's celebration! But it has to be ruined by the Lucky bastard Clovers.

It really is! Except it's only a celebration if they ignore the horrible costs of that victory, so...

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

But you're right that for all the hard time Takumi gives to others, he's too lenient on Kusaka (unlike him lashing out at Kageyama, a moment where I also went "f**k yeah!").

If there's a misstep in this episode for me, this is it. I've got to squint really hard to see how Takumi could trust his future in the group to someone like Kusaka. Like, Takumi's asking that guy to be fair to him. Kusaka. I buy it in the moment, because Takumi doesn't think a whole lot of himself right then, but it's still a tough pill to swallow.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It's Takumi's decision to fight as Faiz or as Wolf Orphnoch, but I dunno what pressures Takumi to use his Orphnoch form here.

Well, Takumi loses the belt in the middle of the fight, so his only option was to use his Orphnoch form.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Also for "no one telling Mari that Takumi is an Orphnoch" being your least favorite trope, that kind is actually the viewers' frustration for the series you discuss before, only it's not merely about not telling her, but about the entire cast never telling/discussing anyone anything. Now I wonder, which differentiates between tolerable or not to you, and the criteria for tolerable or not in all those "misunderstanding" tropes?

No One Can Tell The Lady About What's Going On is a very specific flavor of people hiding things, and I have next to no patience for it. It has less to do with misunderstandings and character-based miscommunications, and more to do with depressing gender expectations and not-so-subtle infantilizing. A lot of the stuff that happens here, with people not knowing how to open up with one another, it can be chalked up to broken people doing the best they can with the emotional tools they've got. Not telling Mari, it's like, but Keitaro is okay to know?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

With you discussing the viewers frustrations in this viewers, this doesn't cross your mind, about Mihara constantly running away for them?

Do... do people get frustrated by Mihara wanting to quit?! That's the best part of the show!