[Fish Sandwich]

So, one little thing that's sort of frustrating about the Beetle Fangire's design. He absorbs the Arms Monsters into little shields on his torso and shoulders, and it allows him to transform into DoGaBaKi, but Garulu is on his chest while Dogga is one of the shoulders, which is completely backwards, and I'll never understand why they chose to do it that way. Did they just want Garulu front and center because he was the most important one?

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Originally Posted by Sunred

I do think these episodes suffer from bad placement. Reason being Onodera suddenly being this big brother figure felt a little rushed? I think if these two episodes were say 10 and 11 it would have solved that problem for me.

I think the episode does a great job of explaining this, actually, by having Newsuke make a point that he sees Wataru as being in the same position he was in the previous arc – somebody who needs a friend to help them out. He has a specific motivation for his heroism here, that's also kept fairly simple (it's basically just Paying It Forward), and he doesn't really do anything more complicated to go about that than just refusing to leave Wataru alone.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

[insert surname] Wataru (the wiki was no help here)

The show was no help to the wiki! This version of Wataru has no surname, for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I mean, you don't get much more Homage To Kiva than that tableau! Really nailed how Inoue would've approached it! Bullseye!

Oh, this reminds me of an entirely different thing about the episode that I felt was super Kiva-y: the death scene for Wataru's dad, with Tsukasa playing the violin and everything. The melodramatic, wistful tone of it was straight out of that show. It's not enough to die in Kiva; you have to die gloriously.