[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

So I'm reminded of the toaster bit from the last episode of faiz here. It was also an odd bit of comedy in a dramatic episode, but that worked, but it sounds like the comedy didn't work here. For reasons I can't explain, I feel like this is very reflective of Inoue as a writer. It has heart-breaking tragedy, intense drama, odd bits of comedy (that sometimes work and sometimes don't), and then some toy advertisements tacked on.

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Yeah, Inoue and comedy... it's usually deployed a little better than it is here? It's one thing for a minor bit of business, like Keitaro going back for the iron (which is maybe the thing you're referring to? I don't remember Faiz that great!), but when it's a whole thing with Riki floating off to the heavens on wings of love? I don't know! Felt weird to me.

(And, to be fair, I think the comedy did work, in isolation. It's a very funny bit that's a great callback to the previous episode. It's wholly based on characterization. It's just not the episode I'd've maybe dropped it into.)

I think the big problem with this episode is just that it had Ryoko's death occur way too early. The real over-the-top comedy still might not've worked in retrospect, but I think more of the toku fight scenes and Jiro stuff would've. It's... the Ryoko death scene is pretty much the climax of the story, and then there's still twelve minutes of show left? Including Kiva's upgrade? Weird structure to this one.