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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER HIBIKI VOLUME 20 - “PURIFYING SOUND”

Todoroki is a bundle of energy, and for the world of Kamen Rider Hibiki, that makes him weird. The whole aesthetic of this show is Make The Mythic Part Mundane And Make The Mundane Part Mythic, so Todoroki being an Oni that actually has fun with it is… it’s just enormously confusing to all of the adults in this one.

And, metaphorically, that’s kind of key. The people who are confused by Todoroki (I keep wanting to say “troubled”, but it’s really more confusion than any sense that he’s endangering himself) are basically his dad, Zanki; his grandad, Ichiro; and his uncle Hibiki. They’ve got a system for being an Oni, and Todoroki is doing stuff that’s outside that system. They spend most of this episode not getting him, not getting what he feels, and not getting why he’s being so weird.

Actually, Todoroki's age is 26, 2nd oldest Oni of the main Oni trio introduced. He's very childish for his age. And saying they got a system for being an Oni... is it really that? It seems that the way of how Hibiki, Ibuki, and Zanki mentors others are different (especially Zanki's).

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It’s an episode that’s setting us up to have Todoroki’s enthusiasm get tempered by failure, or exposed as recklessness.

Now it seems that Todoroki also has the tendency to try to appear perfect and flawless, especially in front of his mentors... like what Asumu thought of Hibiki at first before meeting Midori. It's seen before that Zanki would be in trouble if Todoroki didn't help him at his debut, according to him. Now probably it needs to be shown to him how other Onis isn't always perfect in fighting, to change Todoroki's perception of Zanki in a more realistic manner.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I mean, that’s what the Asumu storyline is, right? Asumu’s desperate to feel useful at Team Hibiki Bar and Grill (home of the Flaming Oni), so he’s working too quickly and making mistakes.

Yeah, it seems to be parallel again, both Todoroki and Asumu rushed things out, but Asumu paid the price for it. And although Ichiro seems kind and generous outwardly... never underestimate the mellow ones (seriously). It happens where a leader is outwardly nice, but takes what he has seriously and will respond harshly if someone screws up. So it's plausible for the fear, and probably, people should have fear even if the leader is outwardly nice. Asumu's still need to be guided though (although no need the overly harsh way that people seem to hail as being the only effective way), even if it's his first day, which Ichiro and to a lesser extent Hinaka did; not being excused for being a beginner.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Except, that isn’t the point of Todoroki’s story. I mean, a little, maybe, but not really.

I mean yeah, continuing from before, Zanki wishes for Todoroki to just branch out of him and not following him fully by-the-book. And by that Zanki need to make sure that Todoroki's staying that way. And I feel it, the part where he feels like he's not doing enough and everyone's secretly disappointed in him (and that others just lie and flatter you due to not wanting to hurt the feelings), waiting for someone to be actually "honest" about your results. And obviously, "he gets results, dammit!", so true, with Todoroki keeping the count of Makamou he killed. And I think this plays a part about the opposite of this situation compared to real life ones I experienced. In real life usually the adults crave for the "testifying devotion" part like in education/training places, forcing the youths to express the devotion like that whenever they like it or not. But here, the junior (he's 26 age-wise! but junior as he took up the mantle recently) is doing that himself, and the adults who teaches had to understand and ackowledge this move. And agree that the guitar drill move of Todoroki is dope, and efficient of hitting 2 Makamous at once.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

With Tekken, are you referring to the two live action movies or the CGI movie Blood Vengeance? I thought the live action adaption sucked but Blood Vengeance was awesome and a nice prequel to Tekken 6.

Keyword: adaptation. It's obviously the live action one. Y'know, many of those games are western adaptations and they don't really give a fuck about the source material. Blood Vengeance was made by Harada and Namco themselves (admittedly, as a backlash to the western adaptation as they weren't allowed to supervise the live action adaptation), so it's just another franchise work in different field.