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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I was never more impressed with Dynazenon's subs than with this line. 「あんた、贅沢なんだよ] is the kind of incredibly specific word choice in Japanese that'll make a sentence hit the viewer lit a truck, and I think the translation accomplishes the same impact in English, because it was smart enough to not just translate the individual words.

I think it'd be easy to argue that line from Chise is kind of the whole show in a nutshell, really. It's a story about all these characters who are haunted by all the things they don't have and can't have, and here that finally gets flipped on its head by having it be pointed out how thinking that way can make you miss all the things you do have, and everything you might still be able to have.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I wish I had anything of substance to say about the big new robot configuration, but if you’ve read more than three sentences of anything I’ve ever posted on TokuNation, you know that it just sort of washed over me without much more than basic endorphins being released by an elaborate transformation and the theme song’s mid-episode redeployment.

So, just as a starter, and I don't know how this theory gels with the overall symbolism of kaiju in Dynazenon specifically, but I feel like it's sort of significant with the whole outcast vibe of the main characters that the big ultimate combination of awesomeness in this show is made up of:

- a robot that looks like a kaiju
- a kaiju that looks like a hero
- just a straight up kaiju

I've never really put more thought into it than the vague notion I'm suggesting, and maybe the show's staff weren't thinking about it the same way at all, but I've always liked that about Kaiser Gridknight. Like, if any characters from the previous show were going to play a major recurring role in this one, it maybe had to be the two they chose, with everything else going on?