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Originally Posted by Kurona

So I'm assuming you haven't heard the story about how Kiriya's death on christmas resulted in a lot of kids crying, desperately wanting him to come back and parents phoning into Toei complaining about having to explain to their kids the concept of death on December 25th?

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

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No, I infact have not!

To add on to this. It also didn't help that almost immediately after Kiriya was killed, Toei in all their "infinite wisdom" decided to give japanese kids the good'ol one-two punch (as Liam of Rider Club Radio called it) of:

Releasing THIS for those in the Toei Tokusatsu Fanclub to buy:
(Source: https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2016/12...r-new-t-shirt/)


As well as making a tweet saying: “なんできりやすぐ死んでしまうん” / “Why does Kiriya die so soon” Which is a reference to a line from Grave of the Fireflies.

Obviously the tweet was then deleted and Toei apologized for it (Source: https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2016/12...-ex-aid-tweet/)