[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

An Undead captured by the mysterious Isaka (can’t tell you who he is yet. Two more episodes) to progress his project. It possesses a skin as hard as metal.

Isaka wears a trenchcoat, is a mastermind, and likes to see numbers go up! What more could there be to know?!

Also, thanks for the info!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Blade... Brave... My memories of this show is pretty scattered, but it's really fun to see how you've latched onto Tachibana in particular. This thread would have been incomplete had you not screencapped the ending of episode 7 in such clear detail...

Almost put in in my signature. It's iconic!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Assorted thoughts on Blade from me include that I really like the theme song, though the opening sequence is uh... cheap-looking. I appreciate it being different, but after the really stylish openings of Ryuki and Faiz, it definitely looks 'budget' in comparison.

I like all the suits fine, but I really love all the Rouzers the Riders use. The way their cards fan out from their weapons, which is then slid along a slot to make that cool sound effect is extremely cool! The points system, pointless as it is, makes it feel it'd make for an extremely cool trading card game. Yu-gi-Oh's duel disks wish they were this cool!

And also I want to comment on the insert song Kakusei/Awakening. I Gotta Keep It Real and say it might be one of my favourite rider inserts, like top three at least. I think it rocks so much that long after I finished Blade, I actually misattributed it to a lot of my favourite scenes of the show and only learning on going back to those episodes that the song never actually played then.

I wonder if you look forward to Tachibana overcoming his fear (among other flaws), or if you'd be content with him being a wreck all the way through!

I still find the opening incredibly disorienting. And, like, not in a mysterious I Wonder What That Means way, but more in a This Is Giving Me A Headache way.

I love collectibles for Riders, so the elaborate card mechanisms are right in the sweet spot for me. The fanning of the Rouser, the picking of the card, the scanning, the power display, I love it.

I actually do want Tachibana to overcome his fear, yes! This is probably something I'll get to talk about in an upcoming episode, but I really like how difficult the show is making Tachibana's recovery. Fear isn't something you can rationalize away, you know? It's primal, and irrational, and when it gets its hooks in... Tachibana is still cartoonishly inept and bizarrely self-obsessed, but there's an idea at his core that is intriguing and relevant.

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Originally Posted by Mmicb0b

I've seen Tachibana's horrified reaction used as a reaction image in discord servers that have nothing to do with Toku used by people who as far as I know would think this is power rangers so that's all you need to know

It's a perfect reaction image. You don't need any context, you just need that middle image of Tachibana's bug-eyes, wide mouth, and angled eyebrows. It's worth a thousand words.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

I think this point, where we have a definite villain to fight with, the Tachibana plot kicking up into a higher gear, and UWAAAAAAAA, was were I started properly vibing with Blade. Before this, it was a little nebulous as to where anything was going, but giving the series a bit of structure makes everything able to focus a little cleaner. Plus, Trenchcoat's version of science ("Wonder what happens if we make these Riders fight") is so far apart from real science, it's great.

Yeah, this is where things start to come into a bit more focus. Not a ton of details, but a clear problem for the team to overcome that opens the door to get at season-long mysteries.

Trenchcoat Mastermind's view of science is the most archetypal Kamen Rider view of science: The numbers have to go up! At any cost! (He definitely does not understand things like control groups or peer review. He understands how high the numbers went up, and that's about it.)