[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s all over this episode, what with the trip to the Whispering Cave.

So what fuels Kenzaki to do what he does is his family's death, in a similar vein of the previous protagonist where for Yusuke, it was Mika father's death, and for Shinji, it was a death of little girl's mother. But, Kenzaki's issues within people? It also come from that moment too. I think dealing with deaths and mortality happens a bunch of times within Rider series, but for Blade it seems that it consistently happened for every single cast, what consistency.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

But then you’ve got someone like Tachibana, who can’t let go of his own mortality.

Karasuma wants to disappear, which is done by him using a decoy of his body to escape the room unnoticed. Now his agenda is questioned more. Tachibana wants payback to BOARD and Karasuma for putting him into this situation, which is, well, so far from what's known, their fault, they're responsible of their mistakes, but they're putting it into someone that doesn't need to be dragged into their situation.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

They, first of all, do not get along.

Amane's brattiness is displayed more clearly here with her being blatantly rebellious to Kotaro (as usual), but also anyone in her care like Kenzaki and Haruka. She won't learn from this catastrophic moment she experienced (which would be even worse if others won't tell, this is actually freaking important for teaching a brat a lesson). Isn't Kenzaki and Hajime the usual, Rider bickering? (I didn't hear much about that part regarding Blade, probably because it's not talked much). And for Garren, it's explicitly explained, he wants to find ways to cure himself, like how Riders want to cure Amane. But the escalation is neat with Blade now practically fighting Garren for real just because he wants to stop him.