[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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.

The thing is that we haven't seen enough of Nozomi outside of scenes about Mutsuki, so it's impossible to know if she has nothing but Mutsuki in her life. She seems to care about him, but not in an unhealthy, obsessive way. She's just got the Doting Girlfriend role, which means that her value to the narrative is in how she supports Mutsuki's story.

And, to be clear, I'm not trying to suggest that Nozomi needs a hugely beefed-up role in the story. Her role is to support Mutsuki's story, just like Mutsuki's role is to (theoretically) support Kenzaki's story. There's a hierarchy to this type of storytelling.

So, within those restrictions, I think Nozomi does a great job.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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)

I've tried to explain it over the last few weeks? I don't think of Tachibana as someone who had a brief freak-out and is now totally healthy. He's a guy that has massive psychological problems, some of which he's overcome. It's awesome that he's not working with a monster from eternity to humiliate his former co-workers, but almost nothing about how Tachibana acts on this show feels like a tip-top mental state.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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.

I read it as the two of them, Spider and Mutsuki, being in sync. It's not a battle between the two of them anymore. They're unified in their goals.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

...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?!

From his perspective, Hajime is a threat to every single life form. Seeing the Kamen Riders working with him, portraying themselves as heroes, he's got to think they're the biggest idiots around. I don't agree with him trying to villainize the Riders, but I 100% get how he could be frustrated by their cluelessness.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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?

Sorry, I'm not getting the reference. Feel free to share it!