[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by IndigoArms

It's weird, I heavily applaud the show for being unique in it's setting, I'm just scared with its structure, with it being random games, then the final round with Ace winning, starting the whole thing again. I hope they introduce something to the show without it going stale.

Now the game aspect in this show feels more significant than Ex-Aid's before regarding Kamen Rider Chronicle (their game motives in Riders are on point though, like pausing an online game Cronus did that turns it into something OP). There were only Poppy being the brief guide, the game being meant for Bugsters to kill humans, thus the humans are underpowered, and Cronus being intended for humans who passed the game to fight Gamedeus (a help for human despite the game being for Bugsters).

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I think when comparing Nago and Buffa, you need to take into account that Neon has not yet received the buckle intended for her. So in the next DGP, she has every chance to move Michinaga from second place. Although I think both of them will be pushed by PunkJack.
And I think the memories linger, because Buffa was called a veteran in the second episode and he knew that water was a weak buckle.

I guess fair enough for Buffa knowing Water Buckle. Though for some reason, Keiwa seems to be the only one who got confused and doubtful at the beginning, no matter who's the newcomer or not. It can be about his lack of understanding of putting one's life at stake for a wish, but still...

About Neon not having her signature buckle yet, that'd only add more point into the sudden burst of fighting ability part.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I was using moral as a synonym for lesson or aesop, which can be anything beneficial to a person's life. Ace learned more than determination though, he learned to have empathy for people who have to be determined to get what they want. Victory came so easily for him before that he started taking it for granted, extending to his rival's losses, so he suggests for them to quit while they still have their lives and forget their problems as the best case scenario, thinking he's being helpful. Here, he's forced to test his own advice on himself and learns by watching Michinaga that there is no best case scenario where you're left unhappy with your life and that fighting against odds is virtue, not stupidity.

Fair enough, agreed on how the learning to have empathy part for what others are going through could consist as the literal moral part of him in this story (and also about how you explained that he learned from Michinaga too). I'm also someone who doesn't really like being told to forget it over (though being able to forget can actually help with self-health), and seeing Michinaga's flashback gave me thought that though Ace thinks he's being helpful, it's a terrible way to deal with someone in that situation (albeit I'd think Michinaga goes overboard with his grudge over that). Thus as I said it's good to have his worldview challenged here.

Otherwise, as established here, yeah normal can be really shitty for many people, and for those who take this too far, this can be the reason to justify depraved villains only because their actions would change normal, and heroes too are often portrayed as those who only keeps the status quo and fight to return everything to normal thus takes shit for that for 'ignoring' the society's clear flaws.