[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Hana's burning hatred for Imagin can potentially screw up this time, losing someone like Kintaros or, likely breaking things up for reminding that Imagins should destroy time, creating self-fulfilling prophecy. And probably if that happen, she'd act self-righteously as Imagins being always that way, she had tsundere-ish reaction to Kintaros dying, but that also can come from refusing to accept the existence of righteous Imagin.

I think Hana prefers the uncomplicated narrative of Destroy All Imagin, so accidentally convincing Kintaros to try and wreck time would lead to less anxiety for her. It's bad enough she has to deal with Momo and Ura, who are able to be coerced into saving people. But an Imagin that chooses to save someone of their own volition? That probably stresses Hana out!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So for this time, Kintaros being more righteous compared to Momo and Ura is a plus point for you? It's usually the other way around for audiences.

I just like that there's a purely Good Imagin in the cast? Momo is all over the place, but Ura veered a little far into Unlikeable territory, so I like Kintaros being a decent monster to rebalance things.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

At the end.... it seems that Honjou lost because he's the one encouraged to train more?

I think the training we're seeing is just physical therapy. Houjou still had whatever mystery ailment he had in the original timeline, but now Kikuchi is helping him get better so they can finish their match. It's an episode that hits on some points about letting a rival help you improve as a person (like with Hana and Kintaros), so that's just the button to that storyline.