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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 12 - ?OUR PROMISE TO EACH OTHER, AT THAT VERY PLACE?

As such? not a super-illuminative episode of Saber? We don?t really get additional insight into our characters, so much as reiterating their motivations: Touma keeps promises, Rintaro is a steadfast friend, and Kento?s going to Fix This all by himself. The addition of Luna?s name or whatever? okay? I don?t care. I can?t care, because Luna?for all her significance in flashbacks?isn?t even a character yet. She?s a plot point. Touma might as well have lost a stuffed animal that day, or a favorite book. I can?t care about her loss because there?s nothing there to lose. I don?t care if Touma finds her or not, beyond a vague That Would Be Nice For Touma feeling. I really hope this is the last we have to learn about Kento?s guilty conscience and Touma?s Narratively Convenient Amnesia, because I literally cannot muster up any enthusiasm for backstory about characters that only exist in memories.

Isn't Touma's desire to protect his two best friends and keep the promise he made with them enough reason to want him to succeed? Luna's like the Kanon Ganma Eyecon of Saber. While we may not know much about her from our perspective, we know she's important to both Touma and Kento and I think that makes her more than a mere plot device, at least for this part of the show anyway.

Maybe some of it's in Naito Shuuichirou's performance as Touma, he totally sold all those heavy emotions he was experiencing after Rintarou triggered his memories. There's also the implication that his memory loss isn't only to convenience plot, but a sign that he's also very traumatized from that event that he'd unknowingly bury something like that deep down inside his mind, which makes the scene of Kento apparently dying in his arms even more heartbreaking!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It can seem good that here Touma actually failed to arrive in time, creating this scene. And it's something ridiculous that Touma takes so much time to get into Kento, in opposite to where usually in toku the heroes arrive just in time to aid, here Touma arrives, probably still in 1 city, by nighttime, when he started to ride off since daytime.

For a headcanon, maybe time compression could be a mild side effect of the temporal overlapping with Wonder World. Otherwise it's the usual Tokusatsu excuse of spacetime bending to facilitate the plot, which I've learned to accept as an inevitable part of the genre.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

This episode marks the Diago Speedy's third and final appearance in the entire series, from what I remember, which is clearly at least as tragic as anything involving Kento in this episode. I like that bike!

And yet that bike is still the envy of poor Ridestriker. I agree it's a shame how little bike action we get these days, but I'm glad that all of Diago Speedy's scenes were so memorable for either bad*ss or dramatic reasons, often both. Touma going to rescue Kento after remembering the promise has a strong feeling of suspense and determination.