[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

There's a middle ground! Too late in the series, and you're either bored of the mystery or it feels too late in the game to be important. Too early in the series, and you've barely spent time pondering it before they're rushing to give you answers. Either extreme is bad!

OK, though I also want to hear more of this from those that spend more time studying plot part of stories (not you, but others). I often hear from some series (not KR btw), that, character is only used as fifty-fifty compensation for the plot part; like the remark "the plot is not that expectional and generic, luckily the good characters can compensate for it" as a short review on a series.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Swan! He calls it Swan in Episode 03.

Also, uh, Kotaro does not have a decent house. It might tactfully be described as "a fixer-upper". Less tactfully, in real estate terms, it would be termed "a complete teardown". It is a shithole. It's better than sleeping on the street, but probably not by much.

No silly I mean the car's real name, not the in-universe nickname given. Also I was judging the house from the size that I called it nice house but thanks for the explanation there then.

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Normally, how you’d break a story on Kamen Rider is to have some new information be learned by the cast, then spend some time having them react to that information.

Takkun being an Orphnoch = Takkun being a Faiz. It answers the mystery of why Mari and Keitaro can't transform. And for "normally", would you also refer to neo Heisei ones? Probably the part where the cast learns the new information, then it being spent here, it has a purpose compared to the ones that is learned at the beginning of the episode as a cliffhanger or sort?

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Tachibana came out the best, mostly because I wasn’t really able to get a read on him before.

From what I know, not being able to read a character easily is a good hook for them or the story? It's considered better if you can't predict on what's going on, and what actually happen surprises you. So it's revealed here that Tachibana was only doing the usual Kamen Rider job of eliminating monsters but failed to do so with a bit of it surviving and wreak havoc, and Tachibana was saving Karasuma by knocking him out and carrying him away. And that BOARD released Undead via mistake (though Hirose's dad implies it might not a case) but wants to use the Rider's power to atone for that. With also a potentially hazardous consequence on its wielder as Tachibana and soon-to-be Kenzaki experienced. What if the vulnerability is also probably from BOARD using others to be Riders so they can recycle the Rider's tool and let others use it when the current wielder perishes (Tachibana condition), that it seems like his thought of naivety, him being dragged into something miserable that he doesn't need to because it's BOARD's fault and their responsibility, not his?

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Which is a great segue into talking about Kenzaki, who shows some really fun shades in this story.

Though Kenzaki is also going through something just like Hirose, but this reminds me of you saying Kenzaki/Kotaro being like Sento/Banjou, and the latter for Banjou. And for Hirose calling him out for his belief in Tachibana clouded the fact, he also does the same to Hirose for her belief in Karasuma also clouding the fact. Both probably just mirror each other on this one (both of them smacking the table simultaneously!), and the important part is the actual truth that happened that is not clouded by their respective "idols". This part, Kenzaki channels Banjou instead of only wants to focus on his problems and being inconsiderate about the others. And previously, this is the part where I refer to Kenzaki being more aloof and antisocial than traditional KR leads. What would you describe if Kenzaki's self-doubt becomes self-pity (as others also have said about Kenzaki's trait being that which is refreshing)?

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Even the exposition was a huge step up from last time. The Hirose stuff, with her first meeting with CHAIRMAN of the BOARD, and the stuff with her dad, it was exactly the kind of exposition I want to see.

These heroic men? Was Hirose being skeptical about Tachibana? It paints to me here that it's primarily Karasuma (and her being one sided on Karasuma regarding Kenzaki above). So it's all about fear of death? Should learn from something from previous Rider serieses.... if that existed in-universe (but in inverse, Faiz had something that lacked here; It was just "Takkun! An Orphnoch!" and Takumi miraculously knows the place, but here they got an Undead radar). The proof was from Hirose scolding Kenzaki for a possibility of him quitting to her asking Kenzaki to stop bearing responsibility to eliminate Undeads? And for the last part, so it's not actually about characters or plot, but theme (just that it seems that theme is more easily obtainable on characters part)?

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It’s only a little bit, but I liked the brawl at the end. I don’t have much of a sense of Blade’s fighting style yet, other than Bad At It, but I enjoyed Chalice’s strategy of using Blade to suss out Moth Monster’s weak point, and then instantly murder it. It’s a great look into how unimpressed Chalice is with Blade, how irrelevant he finds him. Is… is there anyone in this show who thinks Kenzaki has what it takes?

Previously was on BOARD, now Chalice also exploits Kenzaki for his own needs. An effective tactic to keep yourself away from harm.