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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

"Logan-style" weary characters are capable of having a strong sense of motivation. In fact I was waiting the whole time for Kotaro to just explode, react in some freaking way to everything around him, and take a stand to do something even if it wasn't going to fix everything. But no, he just becomes a big stupid bug again and gets milked before dying.

This was also something that irked me. I was really waiting for the moment where Kotaro really let everything out.
He reacted to things around him, but he always kept the same hyper-stoic air to him. I wouldn't say it made him come across as disinterested, but just disgruntled to everything going on.

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Which is itself a sort of cautionary tale. We saw plenty of times, even a succinct little montage, that the driving force behind the continued animosity was the "fighting hate with hate." Those Kaijin killed an innocent human, so the humans killed an innocent Kaijin, etc.

If you take the ending as a hyper cynical view that we're just doomed to kill each other forever and there's no such thing as true justice or peace, and that the only way to combat evil is to become evil and destroy lives, then it's kind of got a point in that it shows how this is all so ineffective.

I personally find it hard to view the ending as anything but cynical. I get that change doesn't occur overnight. But the ending opting to be that nothing is different, and the former beacon of hope is now radicalizing youth really doesn't have any sense of optimism.
The government is still corrupt, the Kaijin are still discriminated against, and those that try to fight on their behalf are indoctrinated by Aoi.

Kotaro's mission of the Century King being killed and the Kaijin dying off is accomplished...Good luck everybody else, I guess?

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

But what the fuck does that have to do with Kamen Rider Black?

I mean, they recreated the intro. It's basically the same show but with a bit more violent