[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

(please don't send a swarm of insects after me kthx)

Well...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I don't know if I would have called those the "fun parts"

Hmmm....

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I kind-of always disliked Blade's mask. I just thought it looked dopey.

Hmmmmm...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

if you can read this sentence, you waive your right to complain about any of my opinions at a later date

Alright, Die, you win this one.

Blade's helmet has always been one of my favorites, naturally. It meshes the spade shape with the beetle horn so smoothly, and the overall shapes, despite the complicated patterns on the silver bits, are very simple and classic Rider. In particular, Blade's face has extremely pronounced tears, something used all the way back on Rider 1 to emphasize the sorrow of his character, and which has always been my single favorite element of that design. Any time they pay tribute to it is great to me, but I mean, it's probably not going to hold much appeal to someone who doesn't truck with Showa.

Still, I love that helmet, and it pains me that Toei has never fixed the problem it developed in Blade's post-series appearances where the clear part on the front makes everything look gold for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

The media res opening doesn't bother me, honestly. Like Die said, you get a lot of the basics pretty quickly and I never really felt lost and confused.

This is one of those things I'd argue makes Blade's premiere smart. It's still doing all the exposition, but it's a lot more about directly showing you things than telling you. As functional as it is, an approach where the first episode is just someone walking Kenzaki through the BOARD offices and dryling telling him things sounds significantly less entertaining. There's a pithy saying about writing (or at least I think it's a saying?) that you should always be telling a story about the most interesting period in the lives of those characters or that world or whatever, and I really respect Blade wanting to get right into the meat of the story that quickly, even if it was a bit clumsy about it.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

(Also, special thanks to Switchblade, Fish Sandwich, and Zatyme for not immediately correcting me on the new great character's name being KOtaro, not KEItaro. I swear I wasn't doing a bit, I sincerely thought his name was also Keitaro.)

I 100% thought you were doing a bit. Koutarou has always been diet Keitarou in my mind (even though they're only kinda similar), so even though that an uncreative nickname by your standards, I thought that was the joke.