[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

My immediate hot take, remembering almost none of this from my first time through, is that I'm really disappointed that Shima eventually explained how he's still alive. Until that scene near the end of the episode, I was 100% down for this being one last bit of unexplained randomness from Kiva.

I would have LOVED for them to have left it unexplained, if the alternative was the nonsense we did get. Shima just randomly appearing on a rooftop, immediately berating Megumi for her sloppy performance while ignoring Nago's blind fumbling for the IXA Knuckle, and only saying that he isn't a ghost or a Fangire? That would be an all-time great return.

...now that I say all that, I'm rescinding one of my complaints. The team absolutely doesn't need to wonder if it's the real Shima or not, since he shits all over Megumi within a minute of his return. That's ironclad proof!