[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So I’ll discuss that like the Trial Series, Titan is modelled after a Showa era villain. But it’s NOT the guy I “accidentally” wrote about when giving it’s profile. In fact, it’s not a specific monster at all.

Titan is based on the monsters created by Gel-Shocker, which were hybrids of two animals, resulting in mashups like GaniKomori (Lit. CrabBat), MukadeTiger (Mukade - Centipede) and HiruChameleon (Hiru - Leech).

Neat! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

... Blade's ending is considered divisive? Huh???

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

I'm sure you can find someone who hates *every* Rider ending!

I've learned that, not only can the quality of any ending be debated, but the location of the ending can also be debated! I remember back in Ghost that some people missed that the ending was when Takeru used his deep connection to humanity and his superpowered empathy to halt an interdimensional genocide, not the point after that when he fought some dumb CG robot. Opinions are everywhere in this fandom!

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

But yeah, the clone episode is a good time, but I wonder if being slep deprived makes it more or less fun. Especially since (and Fish will correct me if I'm wrong) this is Inoue's final duo of episodes for the season.

Being sleep-deprived probably always helps with an Inoue episode. The only time it hurts is for deep, emotional episodes (that's when they're less likely to work for me, when I'm too drained to care), and then the next day when I'm still exhausted.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I’ve never been a big fan of this episode and the next (plot-wise; the acting and directing is fine). Mutsuki finally has his shit together, everyone’s on the same page and ready to face the next threat as four united heroes, so the show’s response is “Now make them all fight each other!”

Really? We’re going back to this well? Again?

It honestly feels a lot like filler to me. The show is just stalling for time before we get on to handling the real threat of Planet Man Dan and his modern art sculpture.

I didn't touch on this, but the finale, where Mutsuki and Hajime vow that they are going to kick the ever-living shit out of their friends because they care for them so much, it's actually really funny. There's this juxtaposition of Hajime's stoic heroism, Mutsuki's reclaimed inner resolve, and Tachibana and Kenzaki's perplexed terror that makes the whole sequence seem very very on purpose funny.

But, yeah, the joke of Everyone's On The Same Page NOW FIGHT, it's maybe not the time or place for it? I can see that.