[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Geiz, circa Episode 12 - "I did it. I brought the chicken home. This will finally stop the rise of Ohma Zi-O."

That's why Uncle was so insistent that someone pick up the chicken!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

That was always the thing about Zi-O I was most excited about, because I think that's my favorite setup for a hero and their designated rival character. When it feels like you can flip the perspective, and both of them would slot into the other role just as comfortably.

I mean, I came in through a series about four men who were each convinced the story was about them -- and the story was frequently like Maybe! -- so you don't have to work real hard to sell me on the beauty of that configuration.

And you're right; there's so much about Sougo and Geiz'z perspectives that resonate, as a viewer, that it's hard to say anyone's in the wrong here. There's a murkiness to the conflict, since it's about What Might Happen Tomorrow, that robs it of the kind of clarity that usually powers the morality of these characters. It ends up being two kids who are hoping that they're doing the right thing for tomorrow, even if it's the wrong thing for today. Tough to feel like a noble hero in that scenario!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

There's a bit in there I love, when he uses the Revive Ride Watch for the first time, where the scene is pretty much totally silent, aside from the standby sound of Geiz's Ziku Driver. And then he slaps the new Watch on the belt, and the standby jingle for that layers over the existing one, which is just something the toy does, of course, but it adds so much intensity to that initial transformation, used the way it is here.

He nearly went Full Accel with it, which was impressive! It was only five or six seconds between HEN and SHIN, instead of Terui's average pause of twelve days, but Geiz still managed a ton of intensity and gravitas!