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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I mean, she's not? I don't think there's anything in this scene worth being repulsed by, and I wouldn't say that's what the show is intending. At the risk of ruining a joke by taking it apart, the point seems to be that a professional who should be treating Tendou in a clinical, detached manner is, instead, looking to him for answers and falling for his charms. Like, the age of the doctor isn't really part of the joke? Just that she's a doctor?

Fair enough, I get it more now. The total role reversal that Tendou steals the doctor's jobs even from themselves. Shows more about Tendou's perfectness of mastering any role he partakes in, just like when he became priest before.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER KABUTO - EPISODE 10

The serious version is in the beginning, with Yaguruma attempting to swallow his ego and live with his failure. He unconvincingly tries to be a booster for Kagami’s role as TheBee. He makes Tendou that tofu dish that’s, like, his only move. (It is adorable how he tries to smooth over every problem with this one tofu dish.) But this time he makes it Tendou’s way, an acknowledgement that Tendou was right and he was wrong. It’s Yaguruma admitting, in one signature dish, that he doesn’t know how to live his life, so he’ll live it the way Tendou told him.

Except, that’s not what Tendou wants. He doesn’t want this dude, who has so much potential, to just slouch his shoulders and follow someone else’s path. He wants Yaguruma to stop worrying about other people and excel for the sake of excellence. Yaguruma’s tofu dish isn’t the way Tendou would make it, but it’s Yaguruma’s tofu dish. Stop worrying about how you measure up to others and just be great.

This is one of the good lesson that can be taken from Kabuto, among its morally ambiguous characters, that you shouldn't always copy others and stay true to yourself.. Though still, there's a counteract to that message; that you should try to improve (especially if someone's wrong, where Yaguruma can be more unhinged than Tendou, staying true to yourself can be twisted into something like staying rotten if that's how you are), and one of the ways to do that is take inspiration from others... So, about this scene, it's Yaguruma taking it too far like even copying Tendou's style of making tofu? (something that he wins over Tendou from Hiyori's tasting them).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The joke version is how Tendou says loudly, constantly, that Kagami should be fired for doing his restaurant job poorly. And, he’s not joking! Kagami half-assing his job is offensive to Tendou. Tendou genuinely cares for Kagami, and it hurts his feelings to see Kagami be so sloppy and inattentive. It’s super funny that the hero of the show is telling people that his friend should definitely lose his job for being a slacker, but it’s a joke that’s both completely true to Tendou’s personal philosophy, and sort of key to the main Kagami/Tendou plot of this episode.

And Tendou's task-oriented approach here makes sense for him to see something outside that like friendship (at least from the outside for what's shown in Tendou) and feelings as unecessary and just a hindrance. He only takes the "emotions cloud our judgment part" or "emotions make us subject to manipulation" as his mindset, though this part of story has it being right (well, it's Tendou, after all) with Kagami being indecisive at his job.

And that mindset do, can make someone a little callous, which is unfortunately, a bunch of people think like that regarding emotions and even justifies some transgressive behavior that they think can improve others (like the harsh approach I talked before even when it's overboard). The counteract to Tendou's, or anyone alike like some other secondary Riders philosophy will be this; some audiences praise those mindset Tendou has and ridicule the ideal hero ones because they deem compassion as a weakness. But it depends on their situation. Perhaps their job require them to not hesitate, for example. But even then, in general anyone should have some level of moral and/or professional constraint. If we throw away compassion and all other forms of restraint, we'd easily end up unhinged and trigger-happy at just about anyone, and that is definitely not good for others (which is seen in this series for Tendou harming Kageyama).

Open display of emotions can actually be pragmatically useful if used well. Open display of emotions can be done on purpose to manipulate others and achieve the outcomes that one is after. Like for example, ideal heroes might do that unintentionally, but at times it does serve them well (e.g. lowering the guards of their audiences and earning their trust). There are also other characters (whether heroes or not) who intentionally display emotions and reveal a softer side to them in order to achieve their goals. Even toddlers naturally knows how to throw a tantrum in order to try pressure their parents to give them what they want.

And there are some situations where the supposedly "cool" anti-heroes (probably not Tendou, given what Kabuto as a series is, but the others) are actually missing out or failing when they could have gotten the job done more efficiently by displaying some emotions in a calculated way. They fail to do so because their emotional insecurities and emotional hurt are preventing them from displaying their emotions.

Emotion can be a weakness or a strength depending on how the user manages it. For example, there are people who lost control of themselves and make themselves easy prey while angry, and there are also other people who become stronger, deadlier, more focused and more efficient when in anger or adrenaline rush. Emotions managed poorly is weakness, but emotions managed well is a source of strength. Both nature and nurture can play a role in one's ability in managing one's emotions. Rather than trying to let go of our emotions altogether, we should work towards managing our emotions better.

And was his grandmother morally ambiguous too to teach him that friendship is for the naive? Otherwise, with the dilemma Kagami had for choosing to fight a friend or quit his dream job, would it cross your mind that, ZECT is the actual troublemaker? (between these 2 choices Kagami's struggling, take a 3rd option!) I also wonder how will ZECT punish if someone doesn't obey them including headquarters, like not killing Kabuto for Kagami as TheBee. It seems that the Zecter operates outside of ZECT like how Kabuto Zecter chooses Tendou. Kagami as TheBee is short lived, but Kagami's true one to fight in the series isn't as TheBee, so it's not a little too quickly.