[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by GodSpeedLove

If you ever write other discussion pieces on Toku or otherwise I would love to see it!

I already feel like this isn't so much the end of me writing about Kamen Rider, as it is maybe the end of me making writing about Kamen Rider a gigantic scheduled project. The last couple years of months-long nightly(-ish) posting maybe accelerated a burnout that felt more serious than it ended up being after a huge public proclamation. I still like watching Kamen Rider, and I still like thinking about Kamen Rider, and I still like writing down what I think about what I've watched. I thought that last part was done, and then a couple days later I couldn't stop myself from spending 20 minutes writing about Outsiders, my least favorite project by my most favorite writer. I don't know. I think my brain is permanently bent into the shape of writing about this franchise, regardless of how I feel about that.

So, yeah, I don't know. I think, for the future, I'm going to let my interest dictate my cadence, rather than the other way around. I'm not going to say I'LL BE BACK IN THE FALL or whatever with a new thread. Maybe, maybe not. I still have plenty of Phase 2 shows to rewatch, and a handful of dumb ideas for non-KR projects, if there's any interest from the boards in seeing me cover them. (The Toku Anime one is/was SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon, if that sounds fun to people. Let me know.) Any future threads are probably going to be started at random times, with basically no forewarning, and added to at a pace that's reasonable to a more healthy life balance. Like, there may be six posts in a week, or there may be one post in another week, and that's just going to be how it is. I gotta... like, I gotta make this all seem less like an obligation, or a second job, or whatever. I like doing it, and I like the experience of sharing this with other fans, but this ain't COVID days anymore where I was stuck inside for weeks at a time.

Anyway, yeah, I guess sorry for all of the drama! It's been a weird few days dealing with all of this, emotionally/psychologically/physically (big decisions take tolls!), and I think it's more apt to say that I'm done with a level of doing this, if not done with doing this altogether. (Or, hell, maybe in six months I watch Fourze and have zero thoughts and we're all back where we started. One or the other!)

I genuinely appreciate everyone who came to this bizarre wake, and I'm sorry if rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated... by me. Much like a fan-favorite Q1 supporting cast member, what looked like a shocking death is maybe just an indefinite break, to be followed by an unexpected return in a new form.