[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

The connection between Riders and Zecters may also parallel the Worms, with the Zecters seeking out users based on a resonance with a trait or emotion they embody and admire in others. Since they're not exactly talkative, they're just as mysterious as ZECT itself and figuring out their criteria for selecting users is partially trial and error by observing who they bond with and what causes them to abandon a user.

The Bee Zecter abandons Yaguruma and Kagami when they exhibit internal conflict such as hesitation or doubt. So far, Kageyama is pretty consistent in his subordination to ZECT which seems to resonate with The Bee Zecter in a way that his predecessors couldn't live up to. I think the Zecters are deliberately made to be mysterious and abstract in what they want and why they value certain traits over others.

I really do like this read (thought a lot about this on the walk home), but I'm not sure the Kagami one works? He ends up abandoning TheBee Zecter, not the other way around, so it's tough to say what exactly would be the breaking point for it.

The idea of it valuing teamwork and... like, structure, I really like that? It's harder to see the Drake's priorities, since we haven't gotten its backstory (nor Daisuke's), and the partnership between the Drake Zecter and Daisuke seems grudging at best.

Anyway, yes, I like thinking about this. Hooray for assigning personalities and preferences to the Zecters!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I somehow feel that Tendou still can accomplish the missions as usual even without involving himself to ZECT or Kagami. Although, it Tendou truly needed ZECT or Kagami... then it means he has childish arrogance if he frequently boasts about his successes saying that he never needed help from anyone and doesn't rely on anyone to succeed, and urges the others to do so (like when Kagami asked for help) even though what you said is that.

Well, he's pretty clear that for this mission, he needed ZECT's support. (They got him into the hospital!) The very next episode he says that he's done with them.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

And I mean, that's what'll happen in perfect characters; perfect characters evaporates any tension, because there are no challenges for them to go through. Which is why generally, making characters perfect isn't recommended on stories.

The thing is, it's not even that you shouldn't tell stories about perfect characters. It's that hinging a cliffhanger on the perfect character's surprise or ignorance... that is maybe the thing you shouldn't do. Like, Tendou can absolutely be perfect, but then you need a cliffhanger that's about literally anyone else being in peril. (I mean, you've got Gon being captured! Just end on that!) Trying to make an audience who has seen Tendou flawlessly foil every single attempt on his life think that this time he didn't see it coming... I don't know, I don't think it works.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

The part where Kagami uses ZECTroopers weapon to defend Yaguruma and Kageyama to stab a Worm. Seems that stabbing is a lot more effective than firing. Why Kagami forgot that? Or boast more using that one too.

Good point! I think Kagami ended up bragging about this one more because he was really doubting himself, and he wants to feel like a winner for a bit. The other reason is probably because the last time he got a win against a Worm, he immediately became a Kamen Rider afterwards, and that was probably more worthy of boasting. (The other other reason is because Inoue wrote this one and the one before it.)