[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

I am now genuinely curious if this is some sort of edit to the script that the dub made, because atleast in the Simuldub version, they literally just stop fighting and refuse to do so until Gauma tells them more about himself. To which Gauma responds "Can't this wait until after the battle?" Which, ya know, he's right about.

I don't... you really don't like this episode, and I'm not trying to convince you that you're wrong to not like it -- art's subjective, and no explanation can make you retroactively appreciate it; plus, it's just an episode of a cartoon robot show -- but here's the script on my copy, and then I'll get into how I interpreted it:

GAUMA: Let's combine and fight!
YOMOGI: We can't combine without--
GAUMA: Wrong! If our feelings are one, we can do it!
YOMOGI: We'll never unite our feelings.
YUME: Gauma, are you not telling us something?
YOMOGI: Gauma, tell us the truth!
GAUMA: Fine, but let's do this later!

So, it reads to me like the team telling Gauma that his strategy of "worry about this later" is a) not exactly going to assuage a trio that has explicitly told him that they can't just forget about the mystery he's actively avoided explaining to them for over a day now, and b) pretty obviously a way for him to not eventually explain this to them later, once they've defeated this kaiju, judging by the way he's bailed on mutliple polite discussions up until this ultimatum.

Like, they for sure get distracted by Gauma's reticence -- they almost get exploded! -- but no one opts out of the fight just to spite Gauma or anything.