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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

One of the things I sort of disliked about this Faiz-centric episode is that, with Yuji's actor no longer with us, we get these recurring Takumi/Kusaka stories, and they just feel a little shoehorned? Like, Takumi and Kusaka didn't have a great, emotional character arc; Takumi and Yuji did. Doing these stories where Takumi and Kusaka have a hilariously mean-spirited frenemy relationship is fun, sure, but in a perfect world we'd be dealing with Yuji's love for Takumi and vice versa.

I will always enjoy seeing Kusaka again, but I'm not as thrilled about them trying to draw him and Takumi closer together.

I get that. For me though, I was willing to roll with it mostly just due to the whole "alternate timelime" deal Zi-O is going with in these stories. Had this been the Takumi and Kusaka of the "main" universe of Faiz, then yeah, I'd call foul. But as a simple and fun what-if take? I enjoyed it.