[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

?The pen is mightier than the sword, the holy sword of fire?s chosen Rider is? Saber?

Zi-O handing Decade a Saber Ridwatch - in the midst of a pitched, losing battle - and then Decade going I Can't Even Use This is easily in the Top 5 of the funniest/dumbest things in that Vs special. Thank you for reminding me of it!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I was pretty sure it couldn't be Tsukasa or Basketball Sougo. When Heure was murdered, I determined it had to be Yuusuke due to his lack of alibi! I also thought Basketball Sougo's little romance with Misa was cute.

It was definitely cute! They had fun chemistry. And, actually, Sougo was my #1 suspect for most of this special, because it seemed like the most unlikely scenario.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Not a lot of strong feelings either way about Decade VS Zi-O, which is probably why I ended that old post by bringing up Go-Rider. It was a cheap shot, I know, but like -- Go-Rider is soooo good. (Ah man, now I'm getting distracted all over again.)

Oh, for sure. Go-Rider by a mile. I enjoyed this one as a fun dessert to watching all of Zi-O, as well as it being my kind of idiocy. Go-Rider's definitely the better side project!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Wait, has this thread been keeping you from watching Donbrothers?! 'Cause if you need to take an extra day off every week when you get to Zero-One or something, you should maybe do that! You can watch Kamen Rider shows late whenever you want, but this is the first year in a very long time that Inoue is writing a whole toku show. Donbrothers was basically a gift to you, man; you should savor every week it's on the air! (Not that I get to dictate your viewing habits, obviously! But nosy as this is, I can't help but feel you won't regret being able to say Donbrothers was the first toku show you actually kept up with when it was new.)

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I can definitely agree with Fish on putting Zero-One aside for Sentai, I think that's one of the best choices you can make

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

I also second advising Die to take a day off for Donbros! Feels like a shame to let Inoue's biggest fan to miss out on the year-long festival of watching the show live!

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Yes, I third or fourth or whatever these points, Die should take off as many days as needed so he can catch Donbros weekly.

I haven't been keeping up too well (I hardly do weekly watches with Sentai) but from what I've heard it's been pretty great.

So, here's the problem. My brain is broken in a very specific way that both makes these threads possible, and also makes juggling two toku shows kind of impossible.

It's not that I dislike DonBros, mind. I like it a lot! The three episodes I watched were hitting some big Inoue Themes, which is more appealing to me than him banging out some short-run goof-off special. DonBros was talking about how the world doesn't make sense in a way that's kind of horrifying, but people don't make sense in a way that's kind of beautiful, and I like when he does that. (Or, to put it another way, the world doesn't care about individuals, so individuals better care about each other.)

But, like, these threads flex a part of my brain that DonBros also flexes, and I can't do both. One episode and post is about two hours of my day, not counting any forum reading and responding. Watching DonBros after that... it's like running a marathon, and then cooling off with a jog. It's the opposite of relaxing? It's me watching a show I love when my brain is least able to appreciate it in the way I want to?

And taking days off... no? I like the routine of these threads, for one thing. Getting back to a daily(-ish) regimen after the two-to-three per week posting of the movie rewatches, I really like it. I like it the best. Doing these less often is, again, like exercise. If you do it less often, it's harder to keep at it. You do it every day, it becomes second nature.

To do Zero-One less often and accommodate DonBros, that's like the worst of both worlds. Zero-One's harder to do because I'm taking more breaks, and DonBros has to exist alongside a lot of thought about Kamen Rider. My brain's just literally not built for that. Watching Kamen Rider, it just expands that narrative out to fill up my entire brain. No room for DonBros, sadly.

I appreciate everyone's concern, though! And slight shade at the quality of Zero-One!