[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER X KAMEN RIDER OOO & W FEAT. SKULL: MOVIE WAR CORE

This should be a story about sacrifice and duty, but everything in it reads like a story about deadbeat dads with poor work/life balance. Which, honestly, fine. I don’t need my Kamen Riders to be completely logical and emotionally healthy. I like Faiz, you know? But there’s basically no judgment on Sokichi’s actions in this movie. Akiko is furious about the ways her life has been negatively impacted due to Kamen Riders failing her as friends, family, and lovers, but the moral at the end is just Her Suffering Is A Small Price To Pay For Justice. It’s an entire story where Akiko’s theatrical-but-honest emotional turmoil is brushed aside in the face A Man’s Silent Suffering. Whatever.

Like a handful of other heroines, Akiko's also someone who complains about the (true) Kamen Riders' tendency to focus on helping and protecting others, despite that Akiko's someone who was shown to regularly help others too during W. I tend to think that those who try to stop people from helping others (Hina also qualifies against Eiji helping others) can be suspicious, but these are done by the heroines who also do that, so rather conflicted on processing this. I'm also still confused regarding this heroic abandonment issues yeah, but what do you think one should handle these scenarios, when Riders know that the civilians need help and that they're the only ones that can stop the threats? And that Riders can't be anywhere at once... I've always thought about how one shouldn't be biased to only care about personal loved ones only as an ultimate good ... well I guess there's Blade thing in Umi dealing with Kenzaki 'not helping' her but dunno.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

But in seeing the world that way, he misses the point of it all. Nobunaga can’t understand how Eiji can find joy in a life without taking. What Eiji points out to him is that the world exists outside of the ambitions of men. The sky is blue. Art is created. It doesn’t need people to control it, because it doesn’t bow to that control.

I feel that for OOO portion, it's Eiji's worldview that is validated, rather than it being criticized, as clearly Nobu is in the wrong here. Nobu has to learn to embrace Eiji's worldviews, to not only be focused on his ambition, which is what KR fanbase usually would expect in how KR deals with desires, it's something you have to let go for the sake of others, in Nobu using his remaining time for Yoshino's sake, like above in how being a Rider is about prioritizing others even at the expense of your own happiness. Eiji using his pay to help others (and seemingly have his generosity being taken advantage of), people'd likely view Hina as the bad influence to the hero trying to stop charity, my frustration is people thinking that kindness is only limited on giving everything you have, when it can come in many forms other than must be giving.