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Favorite gag of the episode goes to Wataru's extended "wtf man?" stare when his new partner starts getting alarmingly specific on describing Megumi.

Close second place to the Jiro/Otoya fight for reminding me more than anything of Hugh Grant and Collin Firth awkwardly duking it out in Bridget Jones's Diary. Bonus points for Yuri's immediate disinterest.

D&D geek speak incoming:

Nago is a paladin. Specifically he's the kind of paladin that can be good to have in your adventuring party, but sometimes you just get into situations where the stick in his ass starts getting in the way of things. There is a definite arrogance to him that's not as obnoxious as Otoya's... anything, really - but that absolutely makes it harder to like him. He's like that guy that's really cool to hang out with until someone mentions The Last Jedi.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

There's a thing the show is doing, where the 86 and 08 stuff is constantly Awful Men, but there's a way that the 08 dudes dress it up in Concern For Women that... it sort of feels like the show is trying to say something about how men didn't get better over the decades, they just got better at obscuring their awfulness. Dunno. Definitely going to need a couple more episodes to say for sure.

Yeah, Kiva's sexual politics is... well, I'll say that I wouldn't argue with Kurona that the show has serious problems with women. There are a lot of different shades of toxic masculinity on Kiva and I don't remember how many of them get refuted and how many get reinforced. I know that the show definitely doesn't play it all up as the correct way to treat women, but I would never call the show feminist.