[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Also, I barely said anything on the forum about my own rewatch while I was doing it, but I did make an extremely rare exception for a particular bit of direction in episode 14 that I thought was just killer.

On the topic of direction, there were two things from this episode that I loved but didn't mention. (You'd think they were suit debuts or something!)

The first is from that Scorpio scene, and it's where Sonoda is moving just out of Gentarou's view around corners and down aisles, but she's moving backwards. It's creepy and atmospheric, and a nice escalation from the mundane but foreboding setup into the pure terror of the monster appearance.

The second thing, which is the exact opposite, is Fourze descending back to Earth after detonating Scorpio Supernova (also the name of the eighth-best Oasis cover band in Des Moines), landing on a hill made from the crashed Horoscope, shouting his success to the heavens, slipping and rolling down the hill, and rehashing his success like he didn't just look like a fool. Gentarou is full of dumb teen energy, and he does not know how to be embarrassed!