[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Nokination

They make an incredibly big point about how Aruto and Horobi fighting will cause a war between HumaGears and humans, which seems strange to me, just because someone who loved HumaGears and is now fighting one of them, there's riots breaking out, just because one person (who has fought HumaGears in the past) is now fighting someone they know is evil?

I think it's more that, like the Ark when it was reprogrammed by Gai, we all take our cues on how to behave -- who to embrace, who to despise -- from someone with more power than us. We imbue them with too much significance, maybe. When we're failed by these people, or called upon by these people, we lose the ability to see other people as more than With Us or Against Us. The hope is that we can retain our ability to connect with one another rather than turning on each other, and see how we all want the same things deep down.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

It was a good episode for the side characters, you get to see Raiden almost get through to Horobi, you get to see Fuwa and Naki try and get through to Aruto, Yua steps up, Gai even helps out a little bit. This is really their episode to shine while two characters are just steeped in hatred.

It's the best. This show was frequently not great at leveraging the full strength of its cast, even pre-COVID (Fuwa didn't get a lot of quality material during the Job War arc), so it's nice to see the show remembering that Naki, Fuwa, Ikazuchi, Yua, Fukuzoe, Siesta, and Gai are all pretty goddamn great.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Overall a fantastic episode and now you see Bandai's ingenious idea and the start of Geats' Desire Driver roots. Where you can just slap a new faceplate/attachment on a Driver to make it something completely different via Horobi's Zetsumetsu Driver.

I gotta buy so much cool DX stuff now! And none of it's cheap! Or cheap to ship!