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Originally Posted by Sunred

And the ending theme is GOAT.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER SPIN-OFF: SABELA AND DURANDAL

Like, Ryoga raised his sister, and it kind of permanently messed up their dynamic. She saw him as an idealized man, and he saw her as a precious, fragile innocent. Their adult lives are just deeper and weirder versions of that relationship, and it?s keeping the two of them in a toxic orbit. Ryoga?s kind of an overbearing asshole, because he?s trying to be a father and coworker, rather than a brother. Reika?s a jealous psycho, because her whole world was always her brother, and any threat to that status quo is a threat to her emotional stability. They don?t relate to each other as people, but as totems to protect and control.

Saber is one of my favorite Rider shows for sure, but if there's anything I was left a little bitter about, of course it had to be Reika. But it's cause I love Saber so much that I'm grateful for any new Saber content. Finding out this special would be written by Kaneko definitely made me a little more hopeful that it wouldn't be totally awful.

So yeah, as Mesnick and I have been subtly talking about, this spin-off is arguably where Reika becomes something resembling a sympathetic character. Like, the marriage interview, where Rui tells her he can see through her feign and she starts to open up to him, I'm pretty sure that's the first normal conversation Reika's ever had with a human being other than Ryouga. I like how Ryouga acknowledges that his presence has inadvertently made Reika dependent on him to an unhealthy level and he tries to be the responsible big brother by letting her go for her own good.

It also has a nice moral about marriage, how it's a truly wonderful thing that can make a lot of people happy, but how it's also unwise to rush in to it or to do it for anyone else's sake. Reika wanted to marry Rui for Ryouga's sake, but then they talked and she wanted to marry Rui for herself. Too bad Rui turned out to be evil, but it wasn't a total loss, as that experience made the Shindais' bond stronger while hopefully making Reika less of an abusive sadist. I want to give her a chance.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

What was it with TTFC and younger sisters marrying undesirable matches last year? (Though this one is less kinky)

At least Rui is only a regular amount of evil, whereas Doetamu is a total creep.