[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I just think the actor playing Nozomi does a great job? It’s a thankless part, really. She exists to worry about Mutsuki. She doesn’t seem to have any interior life, or any goals outside caring about Mutsuki.

What if her doesn't have other interior life, and only caring about Mutsuki, is actually the reason why her worrying about him being believable? Also like I said before, this worrying aspect of her was utilized by Shima for Mutsuki repressing. Not pulling off the cliche tragic life type (outside debatably what she's processing through), but she doesn't seem to went through a lot, but she seems to only have Mutsuki and nothing else for her life (I mean, going through a lot that she only had him to confide in). Here she somehow ends up in Kurihara household where its the place that Mutsuki "dumped" her (And Amane getting a bit reprimanded for her behavior, though a bit too light), asking when Mutsuki went there again, trying to visit him.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Like, Kenzaki. He’s got to spend a bunch of the story in a more straightforward Hero role, racing to fight various monsters. But there’s a brief scene between him, Hajime, and Tachibana just as the story kicks off that I found really charming.

Now again, deconstructing the monster's motivation (though Hajime has conflicting part with it), that, what would they do if they achieved what they want? What would you gain as the last Undead standing, being all alone? (this is a battle royale game, dunno if the winner will be given something, but Hajime's hesitation probably says otherwise). Like in Ex-Aid, Poppy asking what would Bugsters do after killing all humans and having no one else to play. This breaks down on how some of the goals they pursue won't be worth it at the end presumably, thus rendering what they do as futile and proably sparks some changes, though those characters can be too thick-headed to convince (but probably not for audience). And Tachibana still has limits to not work with Hajime, when he paints himself as a bad person. Also, btw, Tachibana was broken only for first 15 episodes due to him facing mortality, culminating in him ending it by killing Isaka, can you, uh, let go of the status quo for Tachibana after ep. 15 onwards? (or probably explain more why he's actually still broken all this time) Tachibana and Kenzaki was a case where primary and secondary Rider just had regular teamwork without much tension, in contrast to Blade's 2 direct predecessors, Ryuki and Faiz, who had this chance rarely or never. Tachibana also was, obviously more tolerant to Mutsuki than Kenzaki is, using his past broken moments as a guide.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Tachibana doesn’t really get a similar scene, but he plays a great, inquisitive foil to the new Smooth Criminal Mutsuki.

I find the transition of playing cards to the Undead as a clever plot mechanic here, as Joker is a card that can be played as anything else, it goes the same for Hajime a.k.a Joker, that not only he's a 53rd number, but like the Joker card, he can be played as anything else, which translated as him transforming into any other Undeads using their card. For Mutsuki acting like this, it's ambiguous if he's regular Mutsuki or Yami Mutsuki (possessed by Spider Undead), with the yellow glowing effects beside him.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The newest Undead, Clock King, gives us the rest of the info, and I love how he conveys it.

That new Undead, King, is the character that seemingly made to rile us up (and could be likable if it work wonders). He's a gigantic troll that just messes with everyone because it amuses him, like riling up a man to chase him up so he got Kamen Rider Tiger treatment, and also ruining the Riders by making shitposts about them, picking the right moments like Mutsuki being possessed and beating up cops, making Riders seen as evil, like real life human trolls do (which means, should be grateful that there are no superpowers at real life, if there is, those shitposting trolls will use them to cause havoc like King is while being unstoppable that others are ordinary human).... don't tell me you had/wanted to do this and also rationalizing/justifying it or others that do it (read: wanting others to suffer) with you getting why King was frustrated?! And his powers! He seems to summon the monster form separate from himself to fight (while he also can protect himself), and he can Pause in a certain time space. With Blade being most memeable, I wonder why King isn't compared with a certain character from the most memeable media that both summons spirits to fight and stop time? For Kotaro and Hirose, they're beaten up in this episode though by King?

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Originally Posted by Mmicb0b

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Kenzaki would totally run a Blue-Eyes deck because "It's got lots of attack and it's cool!"

Tachibana hasn't played the game since 2008, and is still a little confused by everything above Fusions. His deck runs about 5 archetypes all medley'd together and yet he still somehow pulls a win on occasion.

Hajime runs some obscure archetype you never paid much attention too, has some weird ass summoning mechanic you're not quite sure is legal, and at least one of his cards is in a foreign language.

Mutsuki wants to use whatever won the latest championships but doesn't have the money for it.

Count me in! But not the cards part, it's too overused. Mutsuki's deal is between Mutsuki and Yami Mutsuki. Someone getting an artifact that holds mysterious powers, but he got involved with a spirit/living being who is far more morally bankrupt inside that artifact which keeps possessing him.