[DreadBringer]

Holding off the movie and new generation reviews as those are alternate endings... so don't be creeped out/surprised if that old post got brought up again in a very long time.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Sure! I think a little flavor would be of benefit to both her and Mutsuki's story.

I thought that with what you said regarding the series criteria for characters that appear in more than 2 scenes, that they have to all get hugely beefed-up role, no distinguishment between any character level (or tiny/small difference between main or tertiary, etc.). So Haruka thinks those meanness to Kotaro are funny? Ew, lenient & permissive parenting, kind that is a big no.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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.

Dunno if I misjudged you, but probably was talking about how I feel that you painted Tachibana in a dark light against Shinmei's organization (treating his behavior there like distrust as his fault), claiming Tachibana and Mutsuki as too close for what they are at one point, or saying Tachibana as the worst in ep. 27 for the lie to defend Mutsuki.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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.

After talking about Nozomi's role and you still think this for Mutsuki?

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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.

I mean, why'd he be concerned about Hajime being a threat to every single life form? He doesn't care about anything, he just wants to wreak havoc, reminder he didn't only do that on Riders but also on civilians at the beginning. It's established that Undeads want to be a last man standing, Joker is just another Undead for him to defeat to win the battle royale, which means he's a threat for him.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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

DIO from JoJo (though I'm not sure if it's a right comparison to make). He's been regularly compared against Cronus though. I mean like, King also had the time stopping power (Dio is not the originator, but anyone having that power is compared to him like Cronus) though at certain area, but apart from that, he summons his monster form separate from main body to fight others, like how Stands work in JoJo, which is a fighting spirit manifested to fight others.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I think really it just helps if you know a little something more about the character to make them feel a bit more real; just something that makes them much more of a person, and an outside hobby or job can do that.

Agito's heroine role is Mana btw. And favorite subject?? With a bit of chuckle, just saying, talking about favorite object can be real but not talking about them can be real too... many students declare nothing as favorite subject, for obvious reasons, and doesn't want to bring it up outside lesson. For outside hobby/job can be used to make characters much more of a person... Takumi was an opposite of that where (at the beginning) he doesn't have any dreams, drive, or anything. Probably real can be more broad than just that, and even those that commonly thought as unreal can be actually real, just not appearing much on fiction that they forgot about those.