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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 6 - ?I WANT TO HEAR YOUR VOICE?

The fact that we?re witnessing such raw and intimate emotion means this isn?t really a story with a lesson, and I appreciated that. Suggesting there?s a singular correct and healthy way to grieve a child? god, talk about abhorrent. What we get here is messy, and that?s as it should be. Seiji knows he broke the law, and he knows that buying a simulacrum of his deceased daughter to live out that woman?s unrealized dreams is, at best, uncomfortable to witness, and at worst, nauseating to telescope out. (It definitely robs that deceased woman of her individuality and personhood, flattening her existence down to Daughter and nothing greater.) He?s a man that?s grieving, and he?s trying to figure out how best to honor a memory while preserving his sanity. Aruto?s solution is to give Seiji a few days to wind things down, because even the massive goodwill and sincere sympathy of Zero-One needs to be balanced against destructive self-deception. (Fuwa?s version of goodwill and sympathy is to not immediately shoot both Seiji and Seine, and that?s to be commended.) There?s nothing that?s a sure fix; Aruto?s been in Seiji?s shoes, and he knows he can only hope to cushion this guy?s fall.

The lesson in this case is that grief is complicated, I think. Everybody deals with it differently. There are therapists out there who can give advice, but there's no one answer to this problem. Aruto's been doing pretty good lately, but this episode knocked him back, both as Zero One (read below) and as president, by throwing him in a difficult and deeply personal situation he can only attempt to defuse. While Seiji is stuck in denial, diminishing his daughter's death and the value of human life in general by trying to immortalize her in robot form. It reminds me of Ghost Episode 5, with how Specter's debut caused Takeru to lose confidence in himself.

However, I would also like to talk about how all of this affects Seine, specifically the AIMS law invented to protect people's intellectual rights. Was it wrong for Seiji to commission Seine the way he did? Yeah, probably, but he wasn't in the right mind. But Seine didn't ask to be born in to the world, she didn't ask to become a copy of some dude's dead daughter. The AIMS law dictating that she has to be "destroyed" over something beyond her control, her face, is the worst look so far in to how society discriminates against HumaGears and I feel like she's the biggest victim in all this. Now Seiji has lost two daughters and he has to find a way to live with that guilt and move on, somehow.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 03: KAMEN RIDER JIN - FLYING FALCON

Overall, it?s a really eye-catching suit. We?d seen Horobi in low-light and cameos appearances, but this is the first Forceriser suit we?ve gotten a good look at. The gray and pink/magenta absolutely pop, and it looks like a suit that can give Zero-One a run for his money. Big fan of this one!

Another strong disagree. For me, this suit is a painful reminder of how Aruto's Tori-chan was stolen, which is tragically appropriate for an episode about grief. It's not like Horobi didn't have a spare Progrise Key lying around that he could've given to Jin instead. As I was alluding to earlier, this incident is the reason why we won't be seeing Flying Falcon for a while. If you're thinking they can just resolve it by making a duplicate Key, well, it's not that simple. Zea can create the Key easy enough, but the Rider Model (the actual falcon construct) needed to access the form cannot be replicated. So yeah, Aruto's basically screwed here and his only option is to take it back through force.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

And Zero-One isn't the only piece of media that features a dead family being remade in a robot resembling them, like for example the game featured in Ex-Aid that fueled Nico's early character also had that, Tekken, of which of course the creationg being based on a family member won't be addressed much either in negative or positive light (probably due to the creator not being featured much, Seiji is featured even if only for a week).

Well in Seiji's case, he merely commissioned Seine over the internet, using a public service with legal conditions applied to it. But Doctor Bosconovitch created Alisa using his own hands, which technically makes her his IP and therefore exempt from any such legal and ethical problems.