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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KickHopper, man, so good. I love that Yaguruma left the narrative to get his shit together, to work on himself, to be the best Yaguruma he could be… and this is what comes back. It’s the best? It’s the best. He’s easily the biggest disaster yet to become a Rider (sorry, Kagami, they’re all garbage), and everything about him is phony. He’s so pretentiously miserable that I can’t help but find it adorable. I’m excited to find out what presumably innocuous series of events led him to be sponsored by Hot Topic and written by a machine that was fed terabytes of abandoned LiveJournals from 2005. I can’t imagine it’ll live up to (or down to) my fevered imaginings, but the very fact that I’m able to be so fascinated with a character is a win in my book. He’s the best. Maybe it’s recency bias, but he’s my favorite Rider on this show. By, like, a lot.

What.

You're entitled to your opinion and I respect that, but Die, I'm seriously going to have to disagree with you here.

Damn, looks like I'm going to have to be the guy who rains on everybody's Yaguruma parade. For me, his return marks the point where the show starts to drop in quality and it's mostly his fault. I find his whole thing really intrusive to everything else. What's the point of him? When he first appeared in The Bee's debut arc, he at least served as a foil to show why Tendo is better than him. But now, he's a joke and someone to be laughed at, but I don't find him funny at all!

As you pointed out, he's just as pretentious about being a failure as he is about being a success. He's changed his whole look and yet everything about him is basically the same. He's still a poser, except now he's trying to be all dark and edgy instead of gentlemanly. It's like he time traveled from Kamen Rider Gaim or something. Actually, he's everything you complained about Hiyori recently, for being more plot than character. The plot required something to screw up Tendo's plans and that's pretty much the only reason he shows up after being completely irrelevant for so long.

Honestly, I think he's the type of character I hate to see the most, the type that never learns from his mistakes and is desperate for people to notice him even if it's bad publicity like being a loser and a joke. I can see how that works as a foil to Tendo, who is all about success, but like, we already know that. There's nothing new here that shows any new angles on his character or his interactions with others, it's just like, he's back, he looks different but on the inside nothing has changed. I think that's just awful!

I'm glad you like him though, I guess.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

(I may be forgetting something, but I'm pretty sure we've seen the last of one Rider suit now)

Not quite. The one you're thinking of still has one last special appearance!