[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Where as Decade's design was kind of garish but in a way that surprisingly worked and stood out, Zi-O's design is clinical, basic, yet it's functional nature serves to make the design still "pop" in my opinion.

I think I prefer Zi-O?

It sort of had to be more simplistic than Decade's suit, since the Legend gimmick is so different. Decade switched out entirely for the old suits, whereas Zi-O is always Plus Legend. There needs to be a simple suit underneath the Plus Legend, in order to keep the whole thing legible.

And I really like the gimmick of the suit designs! A friend of mine rolled his eyes when I explained it, but I love the watchband that runs down from the helmet... and the helmet is a watchface.

(The tiny "kamen" on the watchface and the great big "RIDER", I'm sort of split on. In another language? It looks cool. If it were in English? I'd probably hate it.)

Also, I appreciate Zi-O smartly repping the magenta! It's an anniversary tradition!

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Originally Posted by Frontier

And if I remember right, did they not get the monster designer from the respective Rider shows to do the Another Rider designs?

Ooh, I hadn't heard this! Can anyone confirm or deny?

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

As of this moment it feels like Sougo puts his personal satisfaction over that of others, and like his call to action towards the end wasn't particularly interesting or satisfying.

It's weird, because this episode does take time to portray Sougo as someone who dislikes conflict? Like, he's okay getting pushed around and thrown in a lake, if it means it defused a fight. There's a tiny flash of him as a guy who wants to use his power to bring peace -- a very Kamen Rider thing! -- but the episode doesn't do a lot to highlight this as a motivation, or interrogate the facist overtones of that philosophy.

It's... I feel like this episode was intentional in not explaining Sougo's worldview, because every conceivable explanation is really unsettling.

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Geiz on the other hand is decently compelling, he's very classic rider in a sense taking up an unbearable burden (killing what amounts to an innocent man to save the future) so that no one else has to to suffer or carry that weight. Also he uses a ghost power up, and that's cool!

Maybe my favorite part -- and the thing that solidified this as Geiz'z show -- is that Geiz travels back to kill Sougo, and almost the first thing Sougo does is declare that he's going to become a warlord no matter what.

Like, this is just proving Geiz right? That they should kill Sougo immediately? And Tsukuyomi was 100% wrong in thinking she could prevent the worst possible outcome?

A+ hero stuff for Kamen Rider Zi-O!

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

I haven't watched build, so I didn't feel much seeing Sento and Banjou, but they're interesting enough to establish some things and that time travel has effects on the time line, since I assume Sougo doesn't know anything about the skywall.

I don't 100% know how they want to explain this, but technically Build's world at this point in time is a parallel reality?

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

Not a big Zi-O fan myself. Dropped watching it in the early 20s, and what I saw from people who kept going didn't really make me regret my choice. The one good thing I'll say though is that I had a bigger crush on Woz then I've ever had before or since on any other fictional character. His actor does an incredible job with the character, and I was mainly watching it for him. I also have weird taste in fictional men though, so your mileage may vary

Woz, like Tsukuyomi, is plenty hot in a Fantasy RPG way. They both have this semi-regal look to them, which plays well against their theatrical nature and air of lunatic zeal. (They both come off headstrong in really watchable ways.)

But Geiz! Geiz, with his dedicated aggression and brooding demeanor! He's like like a time-traveling Ren from Ryuki, and that's nothing to sneeze at! Don't sleep on Geiz!