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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I approve of your taste! Personally, I've always been fond of the idea of any random form using Gorilla and Cheetah. (Which I know you do get to see at least once somewhere in the show.) Not so much for any particular aesthetic value, but just because to me, it always seemed like the raw offensive power and speed of that pairing would be totally OP in basically any situation.

Sounds like getting hit by a bullet train! However, I wonder if a form like TakaGorillaCheetah would suffer from poor weight distribution making it difficult for OOO to stop or turn, kind of like Fire Gotchard SteamHopper where the attack is strong as hell, but only effective as long as the enemy stays in a straight line.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Given his distaste for the name ?Birth? and his preference for endings, one wonders what Maki would've named the Kougami Foundation?s Rider.

Well, it would probably be the opposite of Birth, which is Death. A member of Metsuboujinrai technically has dibs on that now though. And Diend already has the "end" part. Maybe Finale could work.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So, by this, in fanbase's eyes, Keiwa's wishes aren't a priority to him (until the loss of his family where one naturally gets a downward spiral), just a bonus if he somehow wins, but Keiwa joins the DGP for the same reason as Shinji joining the Rider War, to protect people and other Riders. Even if Shinji wants a complete stop to the fighting, he wouldn't be able to do it as a completely normal human eh, that'd be why he chose to join the Rider War too (and in Advent Calendar, Shinji had a wish to revive all Rider War victims).

Shinji wasn't even aware of the War part of becoming a Rider. He saw Knight fighting monsters and saving people and assumed Riders were all best buds fighting for justice. He totally refused to play the game at all until the final arc and even then, he realized he was wrong on his own when he couldn't bring himself to kill Ren. It's also left to viewer interpretation whether Ren seriously lost or threw the fight since he didn't want to kill Shinji either. I personally believe the latter.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

OOO is a rather more lighthearted show, so perhaps Ankh can be just viewed as a tsundere regarding his claims about not caring about people's problems (which you also do for some depraved characters), as people'd see any lighthearted shows as all black and white, lumping all the good guys as white together, there can't be any moral ambiguity for lighthearted shows.

I'd agree that Ankh becomes a tsundere towards Eiji, Hina and Chiyoko. But him caring about Shiratori's unrequited love triangle with a married man? Depends on whether or not she carries ice pops. I think apathetic characters can exist in various shows, regardless of tone.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 22 - ?CHOCOLATE, CONVICTION, AND THE POWER OF JUSTICE?

Every beat of the story feels plussed by the direction, whether it's adding a surreal overlay to Kanbayashi?s Yummy-assisted mission of vengeance, or a melancholy grounding to Eiji?s fears that unchecked righteousness can end in bloodshed. (Sort of makes sense that the guy whose origin is based on the consequences of a civil war would maybe not feel super great about people lashing out in the name of what they think is right!)

I think this is a complicated moral that needs to be conveyed carefully though, since there's a critical difference between justice and evil disguised as "justice". I don't want viewers to conclude from this episode that justice is wrong or an excuse to commit evil deeds. It's just that justice is a relative term. While Eiji doesn't desire justice for his own sake, he still fights for other people's justice, as long as it doesn't bring harm to others. Maybe we sometimes take for granted how Ishinomori heroes typically subvert the values of conventional heroism shown in other media, so it's important to not take everything at face value and read between the lines to understand what these powerful words actually mean, before we try applying them for ourselves.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Honestly, he blew Gotou off the screen, so I was okay with him!

Congrats on your 6500th post!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 23 - ?BEAUTY, EGGS, AND A DORMANT DESIRE?

(They seriously do the She Takes Off Her Glasses To Be Hot thing! Kind of lazy!)

Sucks to see annoying outdated Western stereotypes in a Japanese show. It's the 21st Century, but unfortunately this kind of thing still happens.