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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I guess we establish that Kamen Rider Stadium is next door to Amanogawa High!

It's a Toei tokusatsu show -- everywhere is next to everywhere, as long as you can cut to the next shot.

Anyways, really happy to see the show immediately obliterating your attempts to be negative about it.

I also love the Rabbit Hutch, even if I always want to spell its name wrong? (like, it only makes any sense with the "u", but also, apparently there's a character in Kamen Rider officially called Gord Drive, so what do I know) I can't think of many equivalent main hangout sets in Rider that evolve throughout the show as much as this one does? It feels so alive, and the show gets to leverage that at some key points to really sell the story it's telling through its visuals.

Which reminds me! I've always loved that beat where Tomoko rubs mud on her face because she's so desperate not to be seen without her makeup? Because like, the whole point of the story is how she's terrified of being seen, in a larger sense, and you'd still get that from everything else going on, but that moment in particular really encapsulates the whole conflict in a way that doesn't need words. It's always really stuck with me from way back in the day.

And that's by the standard of an episode pair that really stuck with me in general! I was deadset on Tomoko being my favorite before the show even started, simply because she's the one named after Amazon, and thus already clearly the best just from that, but the actual character genuinely was the easiest of the bunch to connect to for me. Getting to hang out with the Kamen Rider Club every week meant a ton to me in 2011, and through Tomoko, I think this episode in particular kinda tells you a lot about why.