[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

...Gosh that suit is so pretty~

So, slightly funny story about that particular screencap.

I usually grab a whole bunch of screencaps during an episode, and then I'll sort through them to see if anything really connects with what I think the tone is going to be for the post. With this episode, there was an early chance it was going to be Megumi enjoying a coffee break and Nago bursting into Mal d'Amour to demand thumbtacks, but eventually I realized that it had to be something with the Zanvat Sword. So I had the first one, the one with Wataru dragging the sword, and I liked that one a lot. Then there's this shot of Emperor Form resting the sword on his shoulder as he stares off to the right of the screen, and I'm like Perfect. And as I go to pause the video to grab the screen cap, Kiva turns his head to stare down the lens. It was like he was posing, just to make that screencap even more beautiful.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

It also completes Kiva's evolution into being just another Kamen Rider in terms of how he fights, if you wanna get negative, but looking at Kiva as its own thing, being a sword-wielding hero in golden armor is something Wataru has really worked his way up to, you know?

Ha ha, maybe! Maybe this just turns Kiva into another sword-wielding Rider. For me, I feel like this is the first time Emperor Form has really made sense to me. Seeing Kiva with the sword makes the armor work better, makes the cape work better, makes the gold work better. Emperor without the Zanvat Sword is a little like half of a design, a signal that Wataru had only done half of the work to ready himself for a relationship.