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Originally Posted by Switchblade

is Kotaro's relentless milk-drinking some kind of stereotype in Japan?

- Koutarou lives on a farm
- Farms have cows
- Cows = milk
- Koutarou likes milk

Doesn't seem that complicated to me, but if there is some hidden significance here, I'd love to know!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I think how it folds in all of those various motifs is pretty clever and unobtrusive. Just, pinhead, you know? Pinhead.

I think the more you see the helmet from angles other than dead-on (i.e. whenever you can see the other horn on the back), the less your brain will register it that way, but yeah, obviously there's nothing wrong with just not being into the aesthetics.

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I wanted to spend more time with those characters, not just have them fill in backstory for me.

This is a fair point. There definitely is still an excess of exposition, even if I find the delivery method a little more interesting than usual. I think this episode is ultimately mostly focused on Kenzaki, though, and it does a pretty solid job of that. I joke about the memes, but that whole sequence of him getting kicked out of his house alone works wonders at grounding Kenzaki's character, and setting him up as someone who's a lot more approachable than your average Rider lead. It's like a strong message being sent that Takkun is not going to be the standard going forward, and I dig that.

I guess it's like you said. It's tough to say. There are lots of things that would improve the episode by being put in, but not as many that would obviously improve it by being taken out, and the last thing Blade's premiere needed was even more stuff happening.