[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

Can you pass the pepper?

Too soon!

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

And ya know, sorry in advance if this comes across as insensitive(which hey, if it is, feel free to yell at me!), but I actually found them hooking up to be super gross. Not only due to it coming across more as lust rather than anything romantic at best(and reaching for brownie points at worst), but also because of the implication it ends up giving to Tezuka's' entire backstory in Ryuki: That he didn't actually think of Yuichi as a close friend, but was infact in love with him the entire time and thus was his primary motivator. As someone who's a big supporter of platonic love, well, didn't appreciate that!

I didn't read that much into it, really. With all of the amnesia running around in this story, I'm not sure you can pin a lot on past actions. It's also been sixteen years; I think it's reasonable for one relationship to be platonic, and another to be romantic.

For this one, I think Tezuka is in love, but Jun's just doing the shitposting version of a hookup. There's maybe a thematically appropriate to story to tell in there, about how motivations get misinterpreted and true understanding is obscured by different levels of interest, but this plot gets, like, two scenes. There isn't much there to unpack.

Still! I'm not inclined to push back on anyone who found something they didn't like in this episode. (Except Ren spraying Shinji with beer. That was perfect.)