[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

The OG Roder reference goes beyond the year. The date the project started on, April 3rd, is the date he original episode of Kamen Rider aired on (it was also the day the Spirits Manga started in 2001, the day of the 1000th episode in 2011 and the day that Ghost episode that began with a retrospective of all the past riders aired on in 2016).

And our new worm, Rena, is played by Hitomi Miwa, who was previously the big good of Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger.

Neat! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

On Hiyori's end, I have to say that I legitimately think it's a great idea to have her put all that effort into confronting her problems only to come out of the experience empty-handed.

I got real hopeful with some of those scenes, and a lot less hopeful when a Worm would pop out of the ground in the middle of them.

I'd've been great if this episode had really grappled with Hiyori not finding an easy solution to her problems. That's pretty normal! The idea of Hiyori wandering into the Shibuya ruins and finding one crucial piece of evidence that resolves all of her misgivings and heals her emotional wounds... that is not a reasonable expectation! Her whole mission is poorly conceived and almost guaranteed to fail!

But, like, the episode not only doesn't do that, it doesn't give Tendou or Kagami any interest in that story. (I do like your read on what Tendou's going through as he continually stonewalls Hiyori, but it feels so disconnected from the main plot of what's going on that I was frustrated by the tease.) The show needed to more gently lead out of Hiyori's primary role in the storyline, but they abruptly changed direction.

Yeah, god, not gonna be one of my favorite things in 2020, that episode.