[DreamSword]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I think it's more general, like, "If you want redemption, you need to find love." For Terui, that's the romantic kind, but that doesn't necessarily apply to Aoi even if she mistakes it for that. Familial and platonic love are also important and Terui would later get new familial love with Haruna.

I'd normally be all for this take, but given that a good chunk of the movie, the climax especially, is wrapped in lines and scenes like this:



It really does make it feel to me as though the romance angle is the main focus, with other forms of love as an afterthought. Especially in a movie where Terui claims that Akiko is the reason that he changed.

Like, if while he was talking to her, or even during the drive with Aoi, we got a flashback to times such as when Shotaro told Terui that there were people who care about him, then I'd be willing to give the movie more leeway, and probably see Terui's' talk to Akiko as him wanting to make his wife feel special. But we don't, and instead get alot of Terui's' past recontextualized at best and retconned at worst.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER W RETURNS: KAMEN RIDER ETERNAL

I refuse to rewatch this movie on the grounds that I found it insufferable the first time around.

One thing I will note though is a line from the subs I watched it with(I forget which group), wherein Main Girl claimed "No one knows what he was really like." Which I found to be a laughably bold statement, given that she knew Daido for a grand total of like 24 hours.