[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Your thoughts on Kai being great because they don't actually go into any detail about him... You truly have already become Fish and their love of fog banks.

It's, like, the one part of my brain that's like Let This Perfect Mystery Stay Mysterious And Perfect. It's a dude who shrugs when the heroes ask him if he's the endgame villain! I can't believe I have to defend him!!!

I guess, to walk back the Fish comparison, I additionally like that the show never made a big deal about Kai's history or connection to the series-arc. He's a metaphor, and an obstacle, and that's it. Maybe it's lazy writing (I could listen to that argument without agreeing with it), but there is absolutely zero narrative tension expended on Kai's secrecy, and I love that. It's the opposite of the Sakurai stuff, where the show couldn't shut up about it past a certain point. Kai exists, and that's sort of it.