[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did! I wasn't aware how popular it was until now and this thread is useful for getting rarely heard consensuses like that. This episode is peak Hibiki for me, it really does so many things right.

I mean, that's the best part of a fandom, when you get to chat with like-minded people. It's easy to feel like you're the only one who's into something, and then BAM here's a half-dozen folks who feel the same. It's nice!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I want to talk about how nicely Ibuki talks to the kids they caught sneaking around in the abandoned area. Kasumi starts by scolding them like a mother and telling them what they did was wrong without explaining why, but Ibuki tries appealing to their feelings, admitting he thought it would be to have a cool lair as well, before explaining why it's actually dangerous and they should have fun somewhere else. The kids listen to him cause they appreciate his respect towards them. It's the same reason he's such a good mentor to Akira. He understands people emotionally and knows how to encourage them to be better people, the same way he tries to better himself as an Oni. He's very sympathetic like that.

It's a great scene, for sure. He approaches those kids on their level (literally, since he crouches down to talk to them), and he's great at trying to impart stakes to them. He knows that they were fine now, but he wants them to know that they got lucky. He's not forbidding them, but he wants them to understand what they're risking. It's very empathetic guidance.

And what's better is that Kasumi is so pissed at him for showing her up like that. Like, she's admiring of how he got through to those kids, but she was scolding them! And then he jumped in! Now he gets to look all Cool Dad and she's just Mean Mom. Parenting is a partnership, Ibuki!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

In answer to your question, the housewife was in 18.

And it turns out whoever wrote the page gave up partway through, as the actress was actually in episode 40 of FAIZ.

I don't... where was there a housew-- oh, the lady in the tunnel who wakes up Akira? Was that her?

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

The funny thing is, this episode pair actually IS one of the parts of this show I remember relatively well. And by "relatively", I mean I remembered Ibuki and Kasumi hitting the town and it being pretty cool, and not much else specific. The weird stomach monster, that's one of the things that left my mind entirely, but that feeling of warmth you get from episodes of Hibiki like this is impossible to forget.

It's such a good ending!