[Kamen Rider Die]

Spent a minute watching the new DonBros (real real good), and it looks like I missed some discussion!

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

He's got same dopey, eager-to-help attitude as usual, but now with this lens, it feels like he's just really eager to spend time with Tsukuyomi and Geiz, because they're probably the only kids his age that hang around him?

I mean, Sougo's a sweet kid -- Kamen Rider Puppy Dog -- but I feel like he'd be a terrible friend if you were a teenager? Like, we've seen him try and hang with one kid his age who wasn't a Time Orphan, and he immediately made things weird by drafting that kid into his Good Empire. Like, it took maybe seven seconds for Sougo to steer things towards his troubling/adorable obsession. That can't be fun to be around? If you couldn't order a pizza without your friend talking about which toppings would be the official ones for his realm, you'd probably stop hanging out with him.

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

In the meantime, those kids from Movie War Ultimatum are back????? I didn't even recognize it as them until I checked the wiki lol. Alongside with Mr. Ohsugi! Their appearance isnt anything to write home about, just a way to get the Fourze Ridewatch into our heroes' hands, but it's nice they got some Fourze actors back when they could've easily just gotten new actors to play the KRC members!

And it's also... this episode did its homework. (Appropriate for the setting!) The new KRC members were introduced in the Five Years Later segment of Movie War Ultimatum, which puts it at 2017. In 2018, they'd still be in the school, alongside Ohsugi and Gentarou. It might seem random or insufficient, but they're actually about 50% of the established cast members for this point in time.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

Using a stand in actor and archival audio would definitly do the trick and at least in this one they actually bother explaning why Gentaro isn't in this tribute he's busy being a caring teacher trying to investiagte the missing girls via handing our missing poster!(that such a Gentaro thing to do.)

Yeah, I think it works out fine. Having Gentarou be off on a mission to save one of his students rings true, and sort of rushing past his role in the story is a nice way not to dwell on his absence. (Like, he only gets mentioned one time, which is smart!)

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

Crap, I had something typed out but this was the wrong episode. I was talking about the episode after which had some things I loved.

But, yes, nice to see Takumi and, especially, Kusaka back! Another neat thing that hasn't occurred to me till after the show was that Another Faiz and Another Fourze share the same undersuit, gauntlets, and boots!

It's a nice detail and it wasn't completely apparent to me!

Oh, that's very cool! Thanks for pointing it out!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It's a pity that they had to go to movie characters, especially since it's likely why Fourze and Faiz had to share a tribute two-parter.

I think it's also that, this show just did a high school story? Sort of? Sougo's a high school student, so trying to do a two-episode Sougo Goes To A Different High School story is probably not a great use of anyone's time.

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

While it's on my mind, I really like the Fourze Armour and how it functions like Rocket States with how it just goes all in on the rocket thing over anything else.

Ha ha, yeah, just ROCKETS, the end. It works, though!

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

.......I understand that, but if Faiz's events have been erased, would Takkun even know Kusaka in the first place? (There's no doubt they'd butt heads with or without the memory of Faiz's events, that's just the kind of guys they are ofc) It becomes another "How Far Does the Re-Write/Erasure Go?" issue, so I won't push on it any further than that.

If there's one thing I believe, it's that nothing in Heaven or Earth could keep Takumi and Kusaka from irritating each other. Like, death canonically did not stop Kusaka from telling Takumi that he was garbage. I don't thing a million Time Jackers could keep these two jerks from pissing each other off. They're like the Negative Build and Cross-Z. Much like life finds a way, so might hate?