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The most ominous thing about this episode is that Todoroki gets maimed by an Otoroshi, the Makamou specifically mentioned to only show up once every 100 years and yet here it is again for the second time in a year to emphasize just how much the coming of Orochi is stirring up the Makamou. This unpredictable wildness about them is arguably more threatening than Orochi himself and makes the world getting consumed by them sound a little more plausible.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And here I was going to subtly hint at episode 45’s title by pointing out part of it is reused from episode 48 of Faiz, assured that you remember what happened in that episode. Well now, I’ll just point out that the episode in question aired ON CHRISTMAS. Yet somehow, failed to generate the barrage of vengeful kids and parental complaints that Kiriya Kujo’s death 11 years to the day later elicited.

You beat me to it again, Androzani84. Yeah, following Masato Dying A Glorious Death, now we have Dying Gloriously Zanki. The format is slightly different due to Hibiki's Verbing Noun episode titles but it's close enough to be considered an Inoue-ism like [x] Dies in Fiveman, Jetman, Agito and Faiz, which I pointed out in the Faiz thread.

If I had to guess why Kujo Kiriya's death was more surprising, it's probably that the episode title didn't spell it out and it's unexpected for a Primary Rider to lose their bike so early. That's how I dismissed the possibility way back when people were speculating about it.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

This is the worst worst worst thing about the wiki. You go and look something up to check an episode title or a writing credit or whatever and it's immediately like "This episode features the debut of Side Character's Rider form, the Q3 belt and Lovable Tertiary Rider's death." I don't get why they insist on putting this stuff in the opening paragraph!

Hey, at least those spoilers are relevant. The worst worst worst worst thing about the wiki is looking at Ark's page and seeing a major spoiler for an upcoming plot twist in Beast Morphers casually thrown in the trivia section like it's nothing! And no, that's not a hypothetical, unfortunately. They removed it now but I really wish I didn't see that. Goddamn wiki!