[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I think my problem there is that I don't think the situation with Sawada can be compared to Takumi in that manner. Mari got killed by Sawada after he spent several episodes actively expressing his desire to kill people and talking all about how stupid and dumb all his old friends are. Usually both at once. I guess maybe if once the truth was revealed, Takumi immediately started actively trying to push everyone away by pretending he felt that way? Which would then completely eliminate all the stuff you liked with him trying to do the exact opposite of that for once and being rejected anyway?

I just don't think there are a lot of easy answers to this one.

I guess I'm not comparing them so much as trying to link together two plotlines for efficiency's sake?

The Mari plotline with Sawada, she never really deals with it? Sawada turns on her, kills her, and then the next scene she has with him is all about trying to save Takumi. I feel like there's a middle section where she needs to process what happened to her, and while Takumi has been revealed to be an Orphnoch seems like a pretty dramatically fertile place to do that? Like, making Mari's trauma be about how she was betrayed and didn't deal with that, I think it's a two birds/one stone situation? Mari being screwed up while Takumi doesn't know how to deal with her being screwed up, that's the part of the story I thought worked, and I think they could manage that with what was already going on at the time.

I don't know, I don't mean to rewrite the show. This is just how my brain tries to deal with a couple simultaneous things that I thought the show could do better with.