[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Kento is back and he's in his emo phase!

Ah, yes: the point in the story where Kento sheds his happy-go-lucky, whimsical nature and starts brooding endlessly over his own traumas and resentments. I wondered if we'd ever get here!

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

AkibaSilver builds So-Do! Kamen Rider Sabela

It really is a lovely suit. I like how they used Smoke to sort of justify a steampunk look for Sabela, with the brass and gold and gears and whatnot. It's a smart looking suit, and it's still only the second-best new costume Reika gets this episode. (I love that red assassin get-up!)

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

It's very much story of saying, "What do you value more?" and "is this organization you devoted yourself to really worth it?" and it's definitely a huge hurdle given Rintaro's upbringing. It's going to take a lot more work than it did with Ogami and Daishinji, that's for sure.

The fact that this show had Rintaro choke on his own anxiety for WEEKS, only to have him finally voice his misgivings at an all-hands sword cult meeting! With his god/father/godfather there! Even REN is aware enough of social cues to get that Rintaro may have just volunteered to get murdered by Reika! It's so smart to have Rintaro's crisis of conscience get so bad that he basically blurts an f-bomb in church. Hilarious, and it absolutely established the very big narrative stakes for this episode.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Die's words about how you can point to any random second here as a highlight might as well be my own.

how good was reika's "i'm an assassin now" red coat form change, though

what a sequence