[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Nokination

I do like Jin and am glad that he's back, I also like how Jin now has his own motivations apart from just following Horobi who himself follows the Ark.

It ends up making Jin a lot more interesting than Horobi's one-note menace, that's for sure. Jin seems like he's at least trying to explain himself and his point of view to Aruto (through the hacked Doctor Humagear), rather than Horobi's eternal parroting of threats and complete unwillingness to expand his argument beyond The Ark Said So. Jin's at least got some emotion to his outlook!

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Anyway Jin's back and I really love Burning Falcon! Just a good form all around, poor Fuwa though, he's not catching a break is he when it comes to fights.

Fuwa's in that Hasn't Gotten An Upgrade In A Minute rut, where all of the new form debuts have to have someone to dominate, and he's in there rocking a three-month old Assault Wolf suit, so he's going to be the one to eat it in a fight. I'm sure he'll get another win soon, once he gets an upgrade.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So fun fact: the real reason that Jin keeps his new toy on a chain is because when he was using Flying Falcon, his pose involved throwing it in the air before inserting it, and that resulted in way more outtakes than the producers were comfortable with.

Another fun fact, as advertised! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Really dig Burning Falcon as a suit, especially given the very obvious Phoenix symbolism what with Jin being reborn and all.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Jin really rocking that post-freedom, new body/form, drip with that suit and Burning Falcon.

It's a great upgrade to Flying Falcon. They manage to bring together the vague shape of Jin's last suit, but make it more polished and imposing. It feels like the grown-up version of Flying Falcon, you know?

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

It was? Well, that explains why the only part I remember about this episode was Jin's return and the intriguing interactions between Aruto, Isamu and Gai. Seriously poor timing for a recap though, coming before the 6 week hiatus, Recap City.

I'm sure COVID's arrival gave the production a few regrets about how they paced the series, in retrospect, but the biggest one has to be spending an entire episode in the 20s on establishing stakes and laying out rosters. Plenty of time for that in a month!

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

Eh...I don't have any strong feelings about the bit where about Aruto asking Fuwa what his dream is, but I'll go up to bat for it. Since this whole episode is half recap/half set-up, everyone's spilling about their goals and shit, right? Fuwa's kinda an outlier here-he's constantly talking about following his own road, doing shit his way and no one else's, but like.....? What kind of road do you want go down, Fuwa? Everyone here has their eyes turned towards some kind of future, but Fuwa is standing solidly in the present: If there's a bad robot, he'll scrap it. Something shady going on, he'll butt in. That's all there is to it. And living in the moment is fine and all, but for someone like Fuwa, whose entire being is centered around his current goal....is that really ok?

Basically: I think it's a good question to ask Fuwa atm (in terms of the story for the audience, since he's getting his brain squeezed by Gai and Horobi every other week for a good while now) but its dropped in at a weird moment that feels super clunky for the characters within the plot?

Oh, sure, I don't think it's out of character at all for Aruto to wonder what a post-conflict life looks like for Fuwa, and I think the audience would like to see Fuwa have to confront his lack of a goal beyond Kill 'Em All. But dropped in randomly to a scene with almost no set-up, and treated as a slightly bored space-filler by Aruto... it's not the best writing?

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

-Depending on what raws you're using, the Jin v Fuwa fight has that famous "got smacked so hard the aspect ratio changed for a split second" bit! I think it happens a second time later on, or maybe I'm misremembering it....?

I had that on mine, yeah. I actually had to switch to OverTime subs for this one episode, because the audio on my other was completely de-synched. Very weird to see the translation differences - Extinguirise Keys? No thanks!