[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Mutsuki's a real oddity for a lot of reasons, but Leangle does still properly have his own emoticon with (0H0), and, thanks to one overly enthusiastic lady at a supermarket telling him to chase down a thief (okkakten mutsuki! -> oppeketenmukki-!), he even gets his own corrupted nickname just like Kenjaki and Dadi do. Don't be surprised if you see me referring to him as Mukki more than by his actual name.

I'm sorry, Fish, but this is a serious thread where we always call characters by their actual, real names. The production team (alongside the actors) work so hard to bring them to life, and I won't have you disrespecting their craftsmanship. Have you learned nothing from the dramatic, memorable demises of Dr Ladyfriend and Trenchcoat Mastermind? Consider this your only warning!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And now, the Undead Information Kiosk is once more open for business.

I don't know if this is a Spoiler question or not, so feel free to ignore it if it is, but: where do the starter cards come from? Do they generate when Leangle first Henshins? Were they presealed? Like, these are all Undead monsters, right?

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Originally Posted by LeviathanBlossom

Absolutely not, it was great.

I also did a really great job cleaning my tub last week, and no one even mentioned it!

(Also, thanks. I wasn't really fishing for praise or anything, with that poor appraisal of my recent posts. It's just, I don't know. Felt like I left a lot of meat on the bones of that episode. Not like it was an all-time winner of a Blade, but... I don't know. Sometimes I feel good about these. Most times they're fire-and-forget, just a way to spark discussion. But sometimes it's like Eesh, Shanked It.)

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

There's a lot of hilarity in this episode, particularly with the shoplifting gag (AMAZING), but one of the things that has always stuck with me is Tachibana and Kenzaki harassing a bunch of high school students looking for "Mutsuki" and just - how does no one bat an eyelash at two grown-ass men stalking a teenager???

Well, Kenzaki looks like a teenager and Tachibana looks like a principal, so they probably blended right in!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I'm 110% sure we are supposed to find that Very Dramatic and feel Some Kind Of Way about Kiryuu harshly meting out Justice, as Judge, Jury, and Executioner I felt like Kiryuu's actor sold it, but, uh. The little box, not so much. It looks v Showa to me, tbh.

Thank you! I was going to dismiss it as Showa Jank, but as someone whose exposure to Showa is almost entirely through a quiz show featuring the cast of Fourze, I felt like I was leaving myself open for some criticism. Now, I can just agree with you, and then let you soak up any umbrage from Showa fans. Thanks again!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I will always have a bit of a soft spot for Mutsuki for speaking clearly enough that I could actually look up what he was saying)

Heroism takes many different forms. Like, I mentioned my clean tub, right?

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

At least he's not bad during these early episodes though.

He's homaging the better of the two Teen Wolf movies, at the very least.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Finally Leangle.

I really liked his Henshin, what little of it there was. I'm watching it, waiting for some elaborate arm movement or something, and he just... stands there. And then it's OPEN UP and he turns into Leangle. It's a neat way to play with tension, to have this long beat of anticipation and then RIDER.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Karasuma is the exposition guy though? I want to know, again, what makes this 180 degree turnabout regarding him? Also, I really wondered what's up with Karasuma in previous episode, but the answer was quick one, and a rather easy way too for him to do that and gives vague impressions regarding his morality, the second time (he was accused of unsealing the Undead before, now the story plays out like him actually aiding Isaka), that he was mind controlled. Not shown how he got freed of it though.

This is the second time Karasuma has been rescued by Team Blade, and the second time he just bails on them midway through an episode. The show can't really have him around for too long, since he knows way more about what's going on than you'd want to impart to the other characters at this point in the series. They've got to both have him around to fill in blanks, and then shove him off of the stage as quickly as possible. It's a very funny routine they've created, most likely unintentionally.

My read on the mind control was that as soon as Trenchcoat Mastermind was sealed by Garren, everyone under his control was freed. That's why the various soldiers just ran away from the truck at the same time Karasuma came to his senses. They just all came back to normal.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Also here's the thing in this episode; so Kenzaki seems to still put Tachibana higher in pedestal than Kotaro, the person he claimed to be his "first friend" in episode 4 (with also a friendly introduction flashback shown here). When Kotaro talks about replacing Tachibana, he lashes out at him.

Well, there's friendship, which is what Kenzaki has with Kotaro; and then there's respect, which is what Kenzaki has for Tachibana. (Literally no one on the show respects Kotaro right now.) Kenzaki is very much a follower, and he's always tried to defer to Tachibana. His hope is that the Tachibana he's always respected will take back up the Garren belt, join the team, and lead them to success against the Undead. Kotaro suggesting that'll never happen is definitely not what Kenzaki wants to hear. It's a typically blunt assessment from Kotaro, who is pretty terrible at not saying the first thing that comes into his head. It's weirdly one of the reasons he and Kenzaki get along so well?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Uhh... I know, Amane is there to be Hajime's morality pet, his care for her humanizes him. But Amane's thing to Hajime is already on an obsessive crush, which could make it a creepy reverse-pedo stuff, with the addition of her being completely clingy about him with little space given and... she's not merely lightened up around Hajime, by that she mistreats anyone that isn't Hajime, partly because to make Hajime look better compared to them.

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd characterize their relationship that way? I think she's using Hajime as a surrogate dad, which feeds into his protectiveness and guilt, since he's partially responsible (?) for her dad's death.

For Amane mistreating other men... I think she's just got a really low tolerance for weak men? She doesn't find much to admire in men like Kotaro, and she's got no filter when it comes to telling them. They're a very no-filter family!