[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

This is probably one of the two best moments in Den-O in regards to making the Yuuto/Airi/Off-screen Yuuto thing work (the other is much, much later in the Cho Den-O films). There is a lot of great stuff with the staging and framing of Airi almost remembering Yuuto that sells the idea of this time travel romance nonsense as well as anything can. I actually got fairly invested in this story my first time through the show, but on repeat viewings it's harder not to notice how much of it is based off of telling instead of showing. We're definitely informed that Airi and Sakurai had an epic romance that consisted mostly of the same scene of them looking at the stars, but the show's set-up prevents us from seeing any of it on screen. It's like a Greek drama where all the important stuff happens off-stage and we have to hear about it secondhand.

Yeah, I'll go to my grave thinking that this plot's biggest flaw is that the person most visibly invested in it is Ryotaro. It turns what should be a doomed Ouroboros of a romance into some weird forced-shipping thing that the show is perpetuating. No one really seems that into this, to the point that the person most active in the story, Ryotaro, is constantly trying to keep Airi from getting emotionally involved in it. That is insane! That is an insane way to tell a story!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

So my big question, then, is "Zerotorcycle" or "Zeronotorcycle?"

HorneDen-Otorcycle.