[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Zatyme

Look all I really remember about this episode is Ryutaros and his flunkies aggressively breakdancing at Yuuto and if you don't understand why that's the best thing ever then you're not as real Kamen Rider fan.

A little shocked that the Seihou Gun Form figure didn't come with pivotal, character-defining accessories like Ryuta's dance crew, Dance Dance Ryutalution. Another failure from Bandai!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Den-O definitely works more as a series of standalone vignettes more than it does as an overarching plot (you’ll get more fuel for this fire later on). Just a shame it can’t commit to either.

That's just the nature of the beast? A year-long Kamen Rider series always has to balance one-off stories with longform narratives. You can't ever just do one or the other, even if you're a show that's more successful at one type. Making a goofy, fast-paced MOTW show that never grows its mythology is going to get stale, so we do need some big Plot stuff to push the characters into new situations.

I just feel like the Hana/Sakurai stuff right now is too vague to get excited about, and they'd be better off giving us something more tangible to react to.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Plot aside my biggest focus at the time was Zeronos himself. It was two years after Hibiki so I was genuinely shocked to see Nakamura the actor come back for more, which also lead to curiosity. First impression I got was Kyosuke 2.0 but now with a personal babysitter.
The Zeronos suit I instantly fell in love with it. I like how Altair form is the rider form being more agile yet strong while Vega form feels like the heavy duty masked form in a sense. Which reminds me, this was our second green kamen rider to be of the bovine kind since Zolda(and our third green bovine hero if you include super sentai's Magi Green from Magiranger, Ohranger's green ranger had a green bull robot but his motif was not a bull so that does not count).

Yeah, it's a little weird that they cast Asumu's Rival to play Ryotaro's Rival a couple shows later. Usually, you might push a background/one-off player up to the main cast (Asuna was in a Ghost HBV before Ex-Aid), or cast against type (Dr Maki from OOO is a slimy executive in Amazons). You don't usually just put the same guy in the same role, especially with so little time between shows.