[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Oh yeah, this is one of my favorites. Everything is firing on all cylinders here and it's fantastic. The humor is so on point - both the physical slapstick and the wacky writing (I love how this whole thing got kicked off because a guy was thinking about robbing a bank, saw a police officer, and panicked). The whole thing is just a pure delight: Hana accidentally beating up the robber, everyone breaking for lunch, the Imagin of the Week's ridiculously slow dialogue, the random shot of everyone sitting in the bath house with flashlights shining on their faces... it's impossible to highlight all of the good moments.

For sure! There're a billion little touches that cracked me up, like both hostage-takers taping underwear up over the windows when they ran out of paper, or the toy gun getting put in the garbage before lunch to show that everyone's in this together, or the stumped police chief walking in snaking line with his stumped underlings... so perfect of an episode!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Oh yeah, this peak Airi. I've always loved how she seems so calm and almost unaware in the face of the chaos that is the show she lives in. This episode dials that up to 11, though, with her just seeming like she's almost out of touch with reality but in a fun and quirky way. I will never not love how she just marches past a police line to walk into the hostage situation. This is the arc that made me an Airimirer, too (but in a wholesome, non-creepy way).

This is the episode where I sort of got how she fits into the show, into the themes, where everything else is chaotic and she's at peace and open to people. If some of what Den-O's about is how we manage the chaos inside of ourselves (as dramatized by Momo, Ura, Kin, and Ryu), then Airi is the idealized end-result of that process. She's there to be something to live up to, and this episode uses that to great effect.