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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I mean, boy, I don't know that I viewed it that way? It's more about time moving on (some Geocities-ass website is going to get turned into mulch by Facebook and Google, that's just the world) than a knock against a part of Ryuki's series. Hell, they brought back Okubo! He's here specifically to restart ORE Journal with a happy and outgoing Shinji! That feels like Zi-O honoring a major element of Ryuki to me.

For better or worse, many news outlets have turned to social media as a source of information. No reason Ore Journal couldn't do the same.

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I mean, see above: I think that's sort of the point? Sougo had these thoughts and feelings inside him, but viewed them as Bad and Wrong and Not Him, just like Shinji did. (Shinji, who was famously a Big Happy Puppy Dog guy!) This wasn't supposed to be a story about Sougo's encroaching darkness or how he's turning into Oma Zi-O, it's about how we need to accept and process our darker impulses instead of ignoring them.

Know what would've helped with that? Actually showing him have some darker impulses but choosing to ignore that they're very much something he has to deal with, rather than just pulling this out of nowhere. The closest we even get to that is Woz tempting him a couple times, of which Sogo just totally blows off anyway. Saying "Sogo totally was like this and you just didn't know it" isn't some surprising shock or added dimension to me; It's just there for the sake of the arc.