[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

That being said it was nice to just have Fuwa's family be... as average as expected alongside being alive and well, and that being enough for Fuwa.

I'm honestly a little shocked that the show devoted even a single subplot to Fuwa's potential family. Like, they even came up with a plausible reason why they're not looking for Fuwa or anything! I sort of wish Fuwa's ambivalence to find out who his family is would've gotten more screentime/analysis than just Follow Your Gut (it's his main move anyway), but it's nice to have that aspect of Fuwa's character fleshed out.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Anyway I will defend Yua and Jin's scheme in one thing, since if I recall... they weren't expecting Ark to have a Rider Form. I think their plan was to get Ark manifested into the real world into a physical form so they could just kill it for good. It becoming Ark-Zero was likely not part of their plan.

I mean, even then, it's a lot of conjecture, which does not strike me as the sort word Yua would want to see applied to her strategies. They didn't know Ark would turn into an unstoppable Kamen Rider that can materialize all of their weaponry, but they also didn't seem to have a clear idea of what would happen when the Ark was whatevered by MetsubouJinrai. It's a massive, largely unnecessary roll of the dice.

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Originally Posted by Nokination

But, of course, we then cut away, we see that Gai is now letting normal people access to the Raidrisers, which just seems like an all-around bad idea, you're basically letting any criminal gain access to a super powered suit, and even if police and security will also have them, it still sounds like way too much of a bad idea, especially when this is only being done so that when ZAIAspecs go berserk, family members will be able to stop them, as opposed to a recall and a warning to not use them until security is strengthened, but I guess what's the point when instead of choosing a safe option, Gai chooses an option that will make him more money, but what can you expect from a corrupt businessman.

Not to get political, but as an American, I found the Good Guy With A Raidriser solution put forward by ZAIA to be depressingly realistic.

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

Oh dear, it's Ai-chan....Hiden Manafacturing buliding their own new AI model based off of Aruto's own vision of humans and Humagears working with each other, its a very sweet idea! But, uh.....let's say I feel very awkward about her inclusion in the story...? More on that later.

The main thing I wonder about for Ai is the same thing I wondered about back in Episode 6: how does the AI feel about not having a body? Aruto's dream was for Humagears to live in harmony with humanity, but wouldn't humanity be a lot happier if Humagears didn't have bodies that could turned be into murderous monstrosities? Is a disembodied AI as good as a Humagear at realizing Aruto's dream? Is it not as good? This is kind of a massive change from the humanoid Humagears we've spent a season with, and I'm hoping that this time the show will interrogate that change a little.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

I just find Ai-chan amusing on several levels because seemingly what Fuwa needed the most was a disembodied voice therapist to help him talk through his feelings. Like, I think Aruto just made a possibly incredible technological innovation in technology and artificial intelligence right there, and it's basically a more self-aware and talkative Alexa.

It's amazing to me that Aruto has known Fuwa for almost a year, and only NOW does he realize that Fuwa badly needs therapy.