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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Also, holy shit, the directing and editing in this one is… you guys.

...And I actually get to talk about someone other than Ishida for once! This episode was directed by Satoshi Morota, who worked on Blade and Hibiki, and then also worked on every single Rider show from Double onwards, right up to Zero-One. I haven't developed the borderline obsessive worship for him I sort of stumbled into with Ishida, but the guy has definitely directed some gorgeous episodes of Kamen Rider, including Toucon Boost's debut in Ghost, which is one of my favorite Rider episodes ever, naturally. Good to know he was apparently already doing great work even back in 2004.

There's also a fun bit of trivia going on with the character names here I might as well point out, since Inoue likes to do that kind of thing. Rarely does the symbolism get more blunt than here though, where we have Hajime (始), a man whose name literally means "beginning", and his identical counterpart, yet the opposite of him in every way, whose name is Ryou (了), which literally means "ending".