[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Tachibana getting to know what's behind the Undead battle royale, sealing stone being the artifact that cleans up Undead after defeat, and probably not fully from the cast in Kotaro's house (narrated by Human Undead), the stakes of the battle royale is huge, the winner being able to literally change the world.

To me, it's less important that Tachibana's getting information, but how he's getting the information. If he'd had it recounted by Hirose or something, I might not buy his later actions. But being in the room with the divine vessel of God's will, I think that alters the scope of the consequences for Tachibana. It's definitely giving things a lot more urgency than I think the rest of the cast feels.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

(Tachibana rarely uses the Jack Form upgrade!).

It's so sparsely used. I wonder if Tachibana feels guilty about using it, normally? He got that card from Hajime. I wonder if him using Jack Form now is, like, him accepting Hajime's help for the first time. Food for thought!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I don't think it's a better plan than Mutsuki's before (eh, what about my explanation to it being too empathetic to you?). Unsealing Shima is more simple, and nothing would be lost. But unsealing Human Undead will practically cease Hajime's existence, which is a loss, especally that takes a toll to Kenzaki. By that you can still seal Kanai, and let Joker be, and the consequences of Joker winning the fight won't occur.

I think Tachibana sees any outcome where the Joker survives as being too dangerous. His strategy of unsealing the Human Undead and sealing the Joker also ends Battle Fight, which has to be seen as a greater good (by Tachibana!) than just letting it go on indefinitely and hoping nothing else bad happens.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Hmm, this scene shows that, no matter how awful or terrible someone is, there would be someone who cares about them, even if only 1. This goes for both Hajime and Amane. Probably this is why ideal heroes take the no kill approach like Kenzaki (and most of the lead Riders, y'know) before, like to... Tennoji, what they want is to stop/neutralize the threat, but doesn't necessarily mean killing. Even if that person deserves killing, what'd happen to those that stick to them? That he's the first to be so adamant of sticking up to Hajime, trying to redeem him and resist Joker's influence, something that even Kotaro (except at the first), a part of family doesn't get it.

Killing somebody is a permanent solution to what could be a temporary problem. Better to believe in rehabilitation, no matter how unlikely, than to assume that people can't change.

Also, man, Amane isn't that bad! She has a whole bunch of people in the cast that care about her! She's just a little bit of a brat!