[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Kagami's dad is amazing. He's like Cake Boss from OOO, but blazed out of his mind. And it's always the kind of high where you're really, really impressed with how amazing your own ideas sound to your altered state of consciousness.

Kagami's dad has crossed the line into self-parody, and it feels real intentional? Like, I don't think we're reading him wrong by laughing at his self-seriousness and tendency to frame everything in analogies and parables. I don't think the same writer who had Jiiya offer to pay for Hiyori's time with a fork (while firmly believing that she was getting the better part of the deal by far) did not know that Kagami's dad is a joke.

Which, again, I love? I love how the show keeps finding weird angles to do incredibly stock stories. Like, Jiiya. Jiiya's great because he could be the Jim Reaction From The Office to everything Tsurugi does, but he's not that at all. He's so proud of Tsurugi, constantly, at all times. He honest-to-god feels lucky to be serving Tsurugi, despite Tsurugi being the least-functioning human being on a show that includes Kageyama. It takes the joke of Tsurugi, and then builds in another joke, which somehow double-negatives into being a relationship that feels real and sweet.

Kagami's dad and Goro, sort of the same thing? Kagami's dad is utterly insane, but Goro treats every non-sequitur and dissociative ramble as, like, pearls of wisdom, which makes it all seem like it still exists in the borders of the narrative.

It's a show that is definitely having fun with the conventions that it is adhering to somewhat slavishly.