[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So the strangers are more ok to be used as a stepping stone for someone's goodness like what Kagami did here, rather than the stepping stone for someone's evilness like the principal?

Yes? I'm okay with Kagami portraying his positive qualities to save a bunch of total nobodies, but the principal bumping off a dozen nobodies feels crass, exploitative. Both are trying to make up for quality with quantity (I'd rather a Tendou/Keiko scene than Kagami protecting no one of importance), but at least with the Kagami scene there's some compelling outcome. With the principal, who cares what he got up to? It's a meaningless statistic, it's a data point for a story with no weight.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I think, there's something a bit new in the Hopper brothers. This story had Kageyama... helped Keiko a bit (probably unconsciously) from monsters? Which had Keiko looked up to him a bit, by calling him "brother", which makes Yaguruma jealous. Which is a bit contradictory with how Yaguruma previously asked Kageyama not to seek the light, which equals to fighting off monsters, while later, Yaguruma is jealous of Kageyama inspiring others a bit and them looking up to him. It's clearer now, that's an edgelord, boasting about their suffering and acting in a shock (valuing hell, darkness, etc.) to get more attention from others. This is a bit about what I talk about in a bit of a change in their relationship, Kageyama here can unconsciously seek the light, like him fighting off monsters here, which Yaguruma had to warn him of that. While Yaguruma is jealous of Kageyama "inspiring" Keiko here and reminds themselves to stay in the path of hell, he wouldn't be completely immune to that either.

True, the show is a bit more straightforward with their relationship here, but I felt like the more subtle version from the last story was better? Everything in this story is so blunt (there is a point where Misaki takes forever to make sure the audience knows the kids in the choir room are the missing choir club), and the Hopper scenes are no different. It's not new information, it's just subtext that now gets spelled out.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Yes, more than 1 time even. It's inevitable as one of the things to proceed in an educational piece.

Wow, not by me. Camping wasn't anything we did as a part of school, it was something you'd need to do for a club, or with your family. It seems like it'd be fun!