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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I've had to defend her a little before, but, "one of the most hated ever"? Nah, I think that's a slight exaggeration. Out of all the Saber characters, Angela Mei's character gets a lot more (often justified) criticism in the Western fandom, despite apparently having a cult following in Japan. That's for another talk though.

Regarding Reika, I'd say that she got quite a number of fans before that happened, though can't further talk about it.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 9 - “HARMONIZE, THE SWORDSMAN’S RESONANCE”

As soon as Storious opened his mouth, I knew I wasn’t going to love this episode. It’s another scheme that’s pulled from thin air, as three random Alter Books and a whole bunch of Wonder Rider Books will now give Calibur all sorts of crazy power. It is, as always, the dullest way to kick off a Calibur plot. He just stands in the room waiting for a new Book Club hoop to jump through – usually accompanied by a totally random Megid – and then we get to watch him jump through it in the most straightforward way possible. There was a time, once, when this show had Calibur and the Book Club and Desast and a Megid all working in unison, to manipulate our heroes into a cunning trap. That episode feels like it belonged to a different show, for all the similarity to this episode’s basic-ass monster attack premise. This one’s just A to B to C, with no particular cleverness needed from the Sword of Logos. It’s barely worth thinking about, thankfully -slash- sadly.

About the Calibur part, Sophia seems to be fine to try to confront him, even not flinching when she got attacked other than Ogami saving her. Wonder what was Sophia thinking in the attack (or if it's really Ogami defending her).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Much like Daishinji’s personality changes when he becomes Slash – wild and uninhibited – this episode shifts gears in a major way for its middle third. It’s like a rock song, where there’s no nuance or intricacy; it’s just loud, fast, and fun. Every Rider gets to detonate a monster, and turn their back on the explosion. Slash gets multiple form changes, both of them gloriously garish and stupidly fantastic. Touma gets his Wonder Combo form, Crimson Dragon, and it’s slick as hell. The whole fight scene against Calibur and the Ducklings was so jaw-dropping (and reminiscent of the killer Geats action scenes I’d watched just before starting Saber) that I had to look up who the director was: OF COURSE IT WAS SAKAMOTO. Love how he moved the camera during the Calibur/Saber portion of the duel; easily the best brawl this show has had to date. This episode is only really concerned with introducing Slash, but it made that introduction so indelibly wild that I kind of don’t hate that decision.

Slash has a case of split personality for his personality change to become a wild one when using Bremen no Rock Band. His flamboyant design also provides a contrast where the user is the shyest member, with a Kamen Rider that has powers come from sound. It's ironic that Touma's worry to Daishinji before was to try keeping him out of the Arthur book as he's not a swordsman, but obviously, Slash saved them from the trouble of the Ahiru Megids.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

There’s nominally a Touma plot here, where he starts the episode wondering what to write about, and ends the episode deciding to write about his friends, but… that’s literally the whole plot. There’s no, uh, middle section of that story, unless you count Fighting A Bad Guy. It’s the sort of bookend sequence that could’ve landed on nearly any of the last five episodes, and I don’t even know why they bothered with it here.

Well yeah this one is a mystery, about Touma's childhood and who was together with him or who is the girl Touma failed to save that time. Wonder if you or some people'd think it's Sophia.