[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

There’s something that cracks me up, the last few episodes of Blade. The opening credit sequence has all four Riders racing across a beach together, four champions of justice, working to protect people. Except that’s completely not this show? Ever? The best team-up percentage the show has ever had was 75%, and that was when Blade, Garren, and Chalice all fought Leangle. Usually, they’re between 50% and 66%, depending on the amount of active Riders. All four of them together?! What show is that opening supposed to be attached to?! It sure as hell isn’t Blade!

Lol... you know Ex-Aid also has this kind of opening sequence, being together.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Case in point, Leangle.

Tachibana's wreck moment is now useful as his experience to mentor Mutsuki with. And for Mutsuki's role, protagonist/antagonist isn't the same as alignments (protagonist =/= good, antagonist =/= evil). For now, it seems that his alignment is the one that is hazy. Probably Mutsuki wants to have power, but doesn't mean he wants to terrorize people with Undead so yeah that way he feels guilty, the one that released him also was partly the Spider Undead that controls the Leangle belt.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Hajime’s story is a kind-of parallel to Mutsuki’s, in that they’re both about men who have secrets, and the women who want to help them.

Though for here, Kotaro wants to know how Hajime can get involved with his family in the first place but obviously, the outcome is seen that way. Hajime also acting the same way as he did to Kenzaki also didn't help. Or Amane only being nice to Hajime that she's going to biasedly stick with him no matter what and even if there's an explanation of Hajime's situation, she's going to make excuses and have the story put Kotaro at fault at the end. Mutsuki can't explain shit to Nozomi as seen in their first fallout, that Nozomi vehemently distrusted him at that time with the weird explanation where he suddenly gets captured and when he woke up there's many other unconscious people around.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s a neat idea to explore, the consequences of trying to let people keep their secrets. It’s easy to say, in the moment, that you value someone’s friendship more than you worry about their secrets, but it’s never that simple. Once you know someone’s hiding something from you, you can’t just not think about it. You’re biting your tongue around them, wondering why they won’t share with you, and meanwhile everyone’s uncomfortable. Hajime and Mutsuki are reaching the limits of their friends’ patience, and something has to change.

I don't know about Hajime, as I said above, it seems that Kotaro is the one that is still at fault here, he got kicked out by the house even by Haruka.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And change has arrived for Kotaro, and it’s wearing a dress!

The writer stuff Kotaro has is brought out again... but it seems that Kenzaki is still against it. I do want to see how far he has gotten into though. For Lazer-Undead stuff, the difference is that his act here would be a genuine vile act, not a facade like Lazer's. And he seems to know the situation not to interfere with Kotaro and the girl, claiming that they're only dating.... it seems to refer to the red herring that she's a high level Undead that disguises.... wonder what's the reason when that's actually right and a girl just gets close to Kotaro because a disguise. That joke is funny more because it's right to me (and not really offensive).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Kiryuu's change from past to present, it's definitely something that's left for the audience to connect the dots.

Oh, not only talking about Tachibana, but also about how he's now has fallen in moral like his view of power and what he did in episode to murder innocents, he pleads for Tachibana to fight for good, and now he became his antithesis outside of Tachibana stuff.

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I think it's a little different than Sawada? Kiryuu comes across as, like, a more homicidal version of Tachibana: a guy who got some wires crossed due to his proximity (or lack thereof) to power.

I mean, he talks about his view of power and that it connects with Rider against Tachibana, obviously he's gonna do his stuff when he got a hand on Rider power. In tokusatsu, (Rider's) power is something that can enhance your alignments, whichever your alignment are. If you're good, having Rider's power is the only way to show more of your heroism by saving innocents, while if you're evil, having that power can give you a chance to express your threat to others with it. But I also don't want to casually label his deeds as misguided justice just because he's probably has more of depth in him inside (and in other medias, there are many people who downplays or cuts out the villains' evilness similar way you did here). At best he's in anti-villain that way, the "end justifies the means extremist". What he does is still heinous and it hasn't changed, and a potentially good motive isn't an excuse.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I also said "Or, if it does, I can’t find it as easily," right after that! It's all opinions. If you ever think I'm making a statement of objective truth, please know that I'm not. I would never want to diminish someone else's experience with these shows by stating that something IS. I can only say what I'm getting out of them, how they're making me think or feel. That's all I'm trying to express.

Yeah I know, but the part of "Or, if it does" seems like a secondary statement that is only a what-if, the "doesn't have the thematic depth" statement put in the primary and the more certain position. That way the statement gives the vibe of the objective truth to me even if there's the "Or, if it does" part, but that part is relegated into secondary what-if to me. Sorry that what I caught is like that between the wording choices. Also btw, can you take consideration of what I wrote about Inoue there? You said that you would be interested in hearing what they don't like, if folks got other problems. And it seems the problem is a serious one.