[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

This is also the last episode to be written by Takuro Fukuda, in the rare instance of a Toku show having a different writer do the finale (with Metalder, B-Fighter Megaranger and Wizard being the others I can think of). In this case, it?s because the producer saw how well received the V-Cinema for Ghost was, and told him to focus all his energies on the one for Saber, to try and make it even better. Given the reactions on Twitter, I?d say it was worth it.

Neat! I'm looking forward to... Trio of Deep Sin? Is that the one?

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Fun fact to defuse the drama a bit. Since the show did not show how Ren takes Kyomu after the battle, and this character has a lot of haters, I came across streams where the audience thought that he just left the magic sword of the void lying around in an empty warehouse. And only in this frame they realized that they were mistaken. Alright guys, even Ren isn't that reckless!

I mean, Ren doesn't love swords like Daishinji loves swords, but he wouldn't just leave a powerful magic sword in a random warehouse! C'mon, people!

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Originally Posted by Sunred

The unlikely master and pupil relationship Ren and Desast had was one thing I liked as the show went on.

It's a hard plotline to dislike!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Funnily enough, though, one of the most memorable things in here for me is actually just Rintarou's little conversation with Luna. It's a scene that comes to mind a lot when I think of how much I love that dude, and the adorable light tone of it sticks out in an episode that's otherwise juggling both a very poignant story with Desast and majorly dramatic overarching Plot threads.

I like the implication, between this episode and Episode 2, that Rintaro has one extensively practiced speech for meeting new people, and it is incredibly weird and briefly counterproductive. (Dude! Stop telling people you aren't suspicious! It's very suspicious!) It's nice that the weirder edges of these characters don't all vanish in the crucibles of their character arcs.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

And yet, without making either of them really have a massive arc, or even one single inciting event besides "meeting each other", it's shifted them, not really away from those initial one-note characterisations, but just fleshed them out, added additional flavours like red ginger, and quietly given them room to work off each other.

Yeah, it's a strong episode for meeting Ren and Desast where they live, rather than shoehorning them into Rintaro or Kento's arcs -- the lesson learned here is to stop measuring yourself against other people, and their successes, and just concentrate on the things that make your life complete. It doesn't matter if it's small, or personal, so long as it makes you happy. Nice to have an arc like this, that doesn't depend on sketching out a personal manifesto.