[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

That being said, wow you are putting a lot of pressure on 1 Cour of an Anime Adaptation of a currently ongoing Manga (140+ Chapters) to do some big wrap-up on things that'll likely take longer than these three episodes will allow.

It's a very weird decision. You've only got four stories in the season, so I'm not sure that spending a quarter of your allotted time trying to come up with a satisfactory stopping point ("conclusion" feels like a laughable thing to say) after a mere three stories... I mean, it'd be like if W had Shotaro and Philip confront the Museum after its own Episode 6 -- you can do it, but it does not feel like the smartest plotting.

I'll probably come down definitively on one side or another after Episode 12 of Fuuto PI, but I'm starting to feel like even introducing Bando before the finale was a mistake. There's just so little time to set him up and pay anything off, you know? Better to introduce Tokime and Shadow Fuuto in 1-3, then just avoid it for 4-9, and maybe leave on this season with the note of there being someone behind it all, and that's Bando, cliffhanger, done for a season. That, or every episode needed to be building to this in a more pronounced way. The in-between way of slowly seeding clues and stuff... no time! You've got no time to just dole out little bits!