[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I find this is sort of a trend in a lot of toku shows, where once the plot starts ramping up toward the end, less attention is paid to the little things that helped create a sense of atmosphere for the world at the start. It's never really a problem (it genuinely does not matter to episode 43 of Kamen Rider Kabuto if someone was eating at La Salle or not), but it's an observation I have.

I think some of it isn't so much down to forgetfulness or lack of interest in the details, but for how a lot of the world-building of the early acts becomes unnecessary later on (everyone knows who everyone is), as well as for how the relative smallness of the early-going could feel incongruent to the massive stakes of an endgame.

Like, one of the things that drove me crazy in God Speed Love was how bustling La Salle was in the face of imminent/ongoing global catastrophe. That warmth of a busy French cafe, I don't think it works great when you're trying to sell This Is The End Times to your audience. Not that you can't have lightness, can't have humor (you definitely should!), but... you can't have normalcy. Having Tendou worry about his secret identity or Kagami need to pull a shift bussing tables while ZECT is getting slaughtered and Tendou feels the walls closing in... I don't feel like that's going help the show, tonally?

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Don't worry, they're going to move on to stealing stuff from Black instead very soon.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

so if rx is the child of the sun does that make tendou koutarou's dad

i thought about this the other day and now it's really bugging me

NO SPOILoh wait, it's just Showa stuff. Carry on!