[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

"Black Sun" is a story where the main characters have good intentions, but realize these goals in a wrong and cruel way. Also, it's two shows in one.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Black Sun is I think a series that's interesting to release internationally because it's one that's dealing with very specific things that happened in Japan's history regarding crimes of the government towards minorities. I'd compare it to Shin Godzilla in how it's a very profoundly angry piece of media that comes from a very genuine place of criticism towards the Japanese government for failing to protect the citizens it exists to protect (whether through incompetence or direct malice). It's one of my favourite pieces of Kamen Rider media easily and one that goes above and beyond what I ever expected of the genre and in fact this franchise given where else it's gone in recent years.

Yeah, I mean... I liked what Black Sun was trying to say about how governments use racism and nativism to get a blank check from a citizenry that is looking for a scapegoat, but a) I could not find a way in character-wise to what was happening, and b) it kinda has that problem Kamen Rider always has when it wants to talk about racism via kaijin where the kaijin are legitimately a threat to humanity. I can sorta forgive the second (it makes the metaphor messier, but not unworkable), but the first is why it's in my Watch List on Amazon for the last however many months without making any progress. Someday, though! I will finish it someday.