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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

There's a great moment at the end of this movie where, regardless of what they've all just gone through, everyone gets together to celebrate Amane's birthday. They've all fought and suffered, and she's not even aware of what the stakes were for a battle she never knew about, but the story gets to end on this one girl feeling like it's okay for her to be happy.

It's not a celebration of victory over violent monsters, or a remembrance of the cost of that victory. It's someone, by herself, overcoming years of emotional turmoil, while her friends and family are there to celebrate her.

Just, man, yes. The value of empathy in a world of violence. That's my favorite Kamen Rider theme, and I think it's important even in a world that doesn't have monsters from eternity. I hope everyone is keeping things together, and that we're all on the other side of this someday soon, ready to be happy.

Kamen Rider is so good my friends.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

This is only tangentially related, but at the risk of kicking back up the "who's the secondary Rider" argument, I happened to notice lately that Hajime always gets billed in the credits second, behind only Kenzaki himself. In the first OP, that initial sequence of everyone ends with Tachibana, so he's kind of acting as a bookend, but for Elements, it's explicitly Blade>Chalice>Garren>Leangle, right from the very first shots of everyone's helmets.

Part of me want's to say this is because of the suit ranking (Spade > Hearts > Diamonds > Clovers) but I really don't know.