[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Kiva Emperor vs the Sagarc fleet is one of the most memorable fights in the show for me, due to how Saga just casually summons them out of nowhere and it's a good way to show that Wataru is back by seeing him bisect Mother Sagarc with Zanvat Sword!

It's a fun fight scene, but it's a bonkers fight scene, even for an Inoue show. An entire army of variously-sized space bats shows up out of nowhere! Like this is something Taiga does every episode, so they don't need to set it up or acknowledge it! And then they're all quickly defeated by Kiva! Like this was something he'd trained for! It is one of the weirdest fight scenes I've ever seen on this show!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

And I mean, like, that quote is straight up from June 28 of last year, and this entire Kiva thread even started almost exactly a day before the one year anniversary of your thread for Faiz. Kinda neat how that lines up. A little freaky, too, but also neat!

ha ha ha

Only Inoue shows for Pride Month, now! It's a tradition!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Maya reacting to Yuri threatening to destroy the Bloody Rose if she doesn't fight her by just going "you're not being very cute today" is such a perfect moment for both of those characters.

I feel like if you asked Maya and Yuri if they were friends, Maya would tilt her head that normal little bit and say they are, while Yuri would scream so loud and so long that her voice would give out. That weird friction, of Maya treating Yuri like a goofy friend and Yuri treating Maya like a sworn enemy... I really love that. These two are so great together, mostly because they're playing their interactions in two completely different ways. Maya X Yuri for the next Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club project!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I will say one big missed opportunity is that the scene in 40 where Kiva saves Nago and Kengo before walking off saying he's done forever totally should've made it a point to not use Emperor Form. It would've made Wataru transforming directly into it here that much more impactful (he's breaking the metaphorical chains again), even though it's not the first time that's happened anyway.

Aw, that would've been a really cool visualization of Wataru's regression. I think the only problem the show would've had with it is you'd basically need Tatsulot to refuse to participate, and that would've been too weird. Tatsulot does not do anything but love Wataru! Having a story that's this rough on Wataru that also includes a Henshin Device calling him a failure... um! Not sure that's going to be bearable.