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What I really love about Akira's full introduction into the story here is that we finally get a chance to see Hibiki do a take on the typical Kamen Rider antagonistic new arrival. Akira is the first character on the show to not greet Asumu with enthusiasm and a friendly smile. Instead she insults him to his face. But this isn't a Kusaka kind of situation. She has some legitimate reasons for not being happy that some random kid stumbled into their camp on the shore of monster lake. More importantly, though, she gets called out on her rudeness. So many shows before and after this let characters get away with being jerks, but Ibuki clearly - but gently - chides Akira for being rude. And by the end of the episode the two have made up and started becoming friends. It's a really nice inversion of the way most other shows handle initially hostile relationships.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

From a toy-seller’s, not so much, especially when your sister Series is doing well with variations on the same devices https://youtu.be/6ExcBuLZhRc

Ugh, Magiranger de gozarimasu desu. The one black hole of quality in the otherwise stellar year of tokusatsu that brought us Hibiki, Garo, and Ultraman Max.