[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

It's one of the few times it occurs and think this is the first time? But yeah there's a post credits sequence. If you're using FlameSubs for the subs on VLC there are chapter markers. Just be sure to check for any extra parts after the labeled credits chapter.

I didn't even know FlameSubs provided chapter breaks! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And also he fights Desast. Totally innocuous, nothing more will come of that, I assure you.

I'm sure!

I really liked the Desast/Kenzan fight, and not just for how kinetic and propulsive the action was. They just... they both seemed like they were really into it? Which reflects incredibly poorly on Kenzan's value system, in a nicely subtle way? It was a clever choice for Kenzan's first big fight scene.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I guess part of it is that for me usually a suit has to match up with the characters or be saying something about them or having something else interesting about it, and it leads me to the question of why is this guy a ninja??? To start it feels a little weird that the organisation of knights - where everyone else so far is just a different type of knight - would just have a ninja as one of them, but I could get around that if it matched up with Kenzan's character which it doesn't? He's the literal opposite of a ninja??? He's all about pure strength rather than speed or agility, he doesn't care for stealth or tactics or anything like that, and spoilers but learning to be a ninja or whatever isn't gonna be part of his character growth... I dunno, it's just weird. It feels like either the Ninja Rider toys got randomly applied to this character or vice versa. I'm not gonna go on about it too much because, sure, whatever; but it has always felt very weird and incongruent to me

Which, if I'm feeling like being overly generous (decent breakfast, so maybe), is probably why Ren is cast as the stealthy ninja archetype? He doesn't get it. The entire episode is Ren not understanding the significance or emotional weight of anything going on around him. He doesn't modulate his POWER AND FIGHTING ethos for anything that's happening to anyone else. He's dim, and self-absorbed, and totally unwilling to examine anything that he's presented with. Making that kid a loud, boisterous ninja who's always shouting and laughing and taunting... feels like they're trying to tell us something about Kenzan, even if it's stuff that's readily apparent from his first goddamn scene.

That, or the show's just like Kids Watch Too Much Naruto. One or the other.

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Originally Posted by Layton13

That said, the Avalon part of the episode holds a little nugget of information that I don't think has been brought up yet. You can actually read the books shown in the episode. The symbols correspond to English letters and are written in Japanese. And yes, they aren't actually gibberish. There is a surprising amount of backstory written in them, stuff I won't get into, because spoiler.

I was aware of this, but thank you for bringing it up here! I'm currently using this coaster, which I'd previously (and happily) deciphered as saying KAMEN RIDER SABER BRAVE DRAGON around the edge:



It's a very cool bit of production design!