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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I'm way behind on work, and I don't have a lot of time (I'll dig into the rest of your really good post later), but I want to call out a line from Ibuki that was nearly the screencap I was going to use for this episode.

He's going down the ladder to fight the monster, and Kasumi's worried he's too injured to fight. He says, "My right arm may be injured, but I still have my left." That line! It's all about how he may not have a plan or all his tools, but he can still try to fight. It's him suggesting that as long as he can try, he can win. I love it.

Ibuki's dedication is one of his most admirable qualities and that line says all it needs to. Sure, he could've waited for backup and his weapon but his decision to fight Oonamazu alone without a plan or anything is pretty much as heroic as it gets. Even the soundtrack Fish linked to is heroic!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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!

Yeah, I love when that happens!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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!

Maybe the kids are also a reflection of how Kasumi thinks of Ibuki. Like how Ibuki needs Kasumi to pick out his clothes. But Ibuki is able to have a civilized discussion with the kids and reveals that those kids are actually pretty reasonable and they learn something from the experience thanks to his mentoring skills. It's the same thing Midori said to Hibiki, that he's a cool Oni but an okay guy. These guys look way more competent when they're in their element and seeing Ibuki in his element is what allows Kasumi to appreciate him and see him as more of an adult, which parallels Shounen's desire to quickly prove himself as an adult but without the experience of Ibuki.

Something else I forgot to mention about the fight scene with Oonamazu. Sound travels faster underwater! Ibuki may not have been the best Oni for the job but had a really good tactical advantage here and the setup with shooting the stomach full of stones. At that point, his job was probably easier than Hibiki's.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Yeah, you're not thrilled with Hitomi feeling weirdly jealous, but you excuse Yuka acting bitchy to Keitaro in Faiz ep. 41, which is even worse behavior... Though now, have nothing against Hitomi, but I don't know where you got Hitomi being smart and capable too? All she did so far was doing usual school life; following lessons and talking with friends, nothing different from other students. Though if you also talk about her passing Jounan.... then Asumu can't get "doofus" label! Also I had uneasiness myself to you expressing regrets to Asumu being friends with those 2, why for that?

I didn't want to put a downer on my favorite arc but now would probably be a good opportunity to mention that I didn't get the point of Mochida's envy. It happened in one scene only to be resolved easily in the next scene she appeared in. Where is the conflict here? Maybe this sounds ironic after Faiz but people are too good at communication in this show! Maybe I'm just spoiled for love triangles by Faiz's love hexagon! Hibiki has a lot of great qualities but this probably isn't one of them.

Now that I think about, I don't really get what Mochida brings to the show? She doesn't know about the Oni and whatever purpose she may have served at the start seems to have been taken over by Akira as the female lead to Shounen's protagonist role. She's like Mizuki in Amazons S1, before she joined 4C.

Yuka snapping at Keitarou was caused by a misunderstanding (which, yes, is very Faiz, but it's a great source of conflict) since Keitarou was given two contradicting messages from "Osada" and Yuka, the first that she loved Kaido and not him, and the second that he should try holding her hand. Yuka didn't know Keitarou was referring to her in the email so she assumed he was being desperate after she friendzoned him.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Game movie adaptations are most, if not all, bad like that (seems like no passion is run during its making, so unfair to actual fans who can't make one, yet produces much better fan contents within that game), though that quote is hit enough on the internet, for various other media. And you know what? This quote is used to represent someone's totally lack of empathy and concern (typically of course, irredeemable villains) towards something which is like, a damage they do to someone in their backstory, it's too far fetched to use this on Hibiki.

Tell me about it! I went to see Assassin's Creed in 2016 and I thought it was pretty terrible.