[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

He said he had no choice to reveal his Undead form when fighting Hajime in ep. 26.

I guess I meant that there isn't a Secret about Shima. He shows up, and at the end of his first episode we find out he's an Undead. Hajime, there's been a bunch of episodes where we are meant to be wondering about elements of his character.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Though for not taking away the addictive substance, in this instance, it's out of touch with reality as the Leangle belt keeps returning to him!

But, like, that's the addiction metaphor. You don't cure someone's addiction by taking away the substance they're addicted to. An addict will always find more of what they want. In essence, they can't escape it. You have to address what's going on inside, manage the psychology, and then they can actually recover.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Kenzaki needs to accept this, he's been told several times as for now, previously by Tachibana, now by Shima, and instead focuses on dealing with Spider Undead instead of jjudging Mutsuki as for now.

Kenzaki, unfortunately... this just isn't a tory he can take part in? The show really hasn't given him the tools to help Mutsuki out. Developmentally, Kenzaki isn't the character to reach a possessed teenager who thinks he's going to fight endlessly and lose his mind. Definitely more of a Tachibana and Shima problem to solve. I mean, shit, I'd love if the show had found a way to get Kenzaki involved, but the past two dozen episodes didn't really give him a way into this one.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

With Tachibana being worthless here, just asking what do you think that Tachibana should do to deal with Mutsuki here?

I guess I would've liked to see Tachibana be more integral to the climax, if the show is going to spend so much of the episode focused on his feelings. I get that they wanted a downbeat ending, where Tachibana whiffs it again, but it just made me feel like the Tachibana scenes were unimportant.

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There's a scene where Shima adviced Hirose to not let her face wrinkled, and Kotaro/Kenzaki missing the point that the beautiful woman refers to her right there, looking for others and Hirose taking a mirror. Also what they do here is trying to keep Shima alive by preventing him going sacrificing himself... though not really thinking how to deal with Mutsuki (Kenzaki said he doesn't want to lose him too).

They end up making Shima a meal that he's too busy fighting for Mutsuki's soul to go eat! It's not that the characters aren't in the episode, it's that they aren't in the story!

And, oh man, do not love that the show had several men telling the smart, competent team leader that she'd be prettier if she smiled more!