[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Oh... I was not expecting this episode to go this way. One of my earliest Kamen Rider memories is seeing the end of this episode as a youtube clip, and just feeling feels for it. Little did I know the surrounding episode was actually really bad and like not at all handled well. So I guess in the episode my mind constructed around it Tendou was fighting Tsuragi because the worm subsumed his personality, and like the group had tried to save him but couldn't, or something I don't know.

I mean, as always, this is just my reaction to it. It's worth experiencing for yourself, even if I don't ever plan on revisiting it. I'm not sure I've ever been more disappointed in a Kamen Rider story in my life?

Yeah, no one really makes a case to redeem/rescue Tsurugi. Tendou dismisses it out of hand, and then decides (with some help from Jiiya) that getting detonated due to depression is actually a totally noble thing that he should give Tsurugi as the worst Christmas present of all time. Misaki has her doubts, and then Tendou heroically ignores them and kills Tsurugi right in front of her.

I definitely love remembering parts of this episode!