[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Well, that would be king of awkward, considering Decade is the phase 1 show I’m the third most passionate about. If I had to pick a second, it would be Kabuto. Plus I already decided what my regular feature is for the next thread, so if I was helping write the main posts, I’m worried about it being redundant or unnecessary.

I don't think it would have to be! We can definitely chat more about plots and characters and stuff, so you could still do something more data-oriented separately. We can definitely figure out a way for you to do both, if you want.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Very minor spoilers(I guess?) but it's for the sake of the project: Blade is the only Phase 1 show that gets two tributes instead of just one during Decade, and there's also a tribute to Shinkenger as well.. Won't say the context as to why, but yeah. So ya know, incase people who want in on this are really passionate about Blade or love Sentai more than others, there ya go.

All you Blade super-fans, here's your moment!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

While Otoya doesn't have exactly zero decency traits, like a few of his amicable interactions with certain male which is Oomura before and Nago in this episode (and he still wants to gloat and gain glory for his deeds saving him), I'd (and likely those people who discuss about Otoya before that has watched entire Kiva) think it's a big stretch to label him as "generally decent" or "champion of justice" for being mainly caring and protective of only certain part of humans, like women only (applies likely either to "only loved ones" bias or sexism double standard as in Daisuke in Kabuto).

I don't think we've really got a big enough data-set to say that, like, Otoya won't protect men, or that he only protects people he cares about. Maybe previously some of that was true, but, again: character arc! He is a little better of a man than he was before! He's never going to be, like, Ryotaro from Den-O, but he's clearly growing as a person.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

But yeah it'll be interesting to see how it unfolds as being framed for something isn't something that can be solved by brute force, if anything using brute force may just making it worse.

I'm sure that sounds like a challenge to Nago.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I think, Tanahashi is a reflection of Nago himself, he's done to likely represent what Nago was in the past. Like how Nago is hell-bent to destroy Kiva, same goes for Tanahashi to destroy IXA, and for Tanahashi, he's doing it because an incident in the past that he almost got killed due to IXA's attack, and likely same goes for Nago as he thinks Kiva is an evil incarnate. Nago is purposely made as the protagonist in the episode to deal with practically his own previous self, the one even more vicious as in never admitting mistakes or weakness (Nago did for weakness just at last episode). And Tanahashi looking at the organization that he despise and subverting it is a type of villainy that is similar to Kusaka (and Nago had Kusaka traits too before), gaining full prejudice (with pettiness) to everyone involved with the organization, without ifs, ands, and buts, which is to end every single people got involved with Aozora.

Interesting take! I'll have to keep an eye open for all of this in the next part. Really great analysis!