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Kamen Rider Revice Miniseries: DEAR GAGA

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Already watched it a while ago, but posting about it now.

So turns out that Hiromi didn't get amnesia, but was faking it to run away from his responsibilities and avoiding Fenix. Though Hiromi has retired before from it though? Which'd mean Hiromi didn't die a hero, but lived long enough, not to become a villain, but becoming a bit jaded. Hiromi did have miserable life, like his flashback of being bullied, as well as the current event of Wakabayashi being Chameleon Deadman, George using him as guinea pig and discarding him, the reveal of Fenix having a corrupt leader, and Demons devouring his life force, but I guess he's not 100% immune to the dark side of him succumbing to some apathy here after so many crushing cards dealt to him.

A clear new path for Hiromi's character, and actually despite that I thought at the beginning Hiromi would be messed-up inside despite his outwardly heroism, this one that did it a bit with apathetic Hiromi surprised me, as Hiromi had been genuinely heroic for so long in the main series. Would see more how Hiromi would get back into track later, and I hope it wouldn't be handled too easy in a nonsensical way (which often happened when talking down outright villain, and Hiromi here is still a good person), he's still doing that despite that he received unconditional love and support from his mom Takako Kadota, to the point of snapping at one point to throw away his Fenix uniform.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Like a lot of these Blu-ray spinoffs, it feels like a waste to confine it to some expensive physical release, but instead of that being because of some elaboration on the canon or whatever, it's just... it's an interesting story I'd want every Revice fan to see? It's kind of obvious from the actionless structure why they didn't want to do it on TV, but I still would've loved to see this as a very special and touching episode of the show proper, somehow. It's not an issue for us, obviously, but it comes off as almost cruel to make the continuing story of Hiromi, and make it this good, and then give all the kids and less diehard fans in Japan a clip show where we get told Hiromi is fine but barely see him. There's a lot more emotional depth to how Hiromi reacts to seeing Daiji and Ikki than episode 29 lets on!

Probably if Hiromi gets out of his funk, the parts of DEAR GAGA would be brought up on the TV, but agree, actionless part can be a really meaningful and impactful part, and likely for the kids, they think what appeals more to them is the actions, so focus on action in the TV series. But not only this, the Vail Legacy is also commonly seen as the good one for the series now, like this continuing story of Hiromi.