[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

(There’s also the disco soundtrack to Ryuusei’s Henshin, and I’ve never really liked it. I can’t find a way that it fits him! Maybe eventually! But right now I don’t like it! My headcanon is that he also doesn’t like it, but Tachibana refuses to change it.)

As well as Tachibana shouldn't! Meteor's belt looks like a disco ball, so it blasts disco music when he transforms! It may not help the covert agent thing, but the theming has gotta take priority sometimes, you know?

And Meteor's theming in general, I'm quite fond of. It's actually the one other thing I bothered to write something about in the middle of rewatching Fourze, which I think says a lot:

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I just got done rewatching Meteor's debut two-parter in Fourze, and the contrast between the two characters is another thing I feel the need to properly gush about. I've probably mentioned before how much I liked the whole era of shows with just two completely different Riders, and Meteor is a fantastic example of that. Literally everything about him flips Fourze's shticks on their head. A white Rider against a black one. A Rider representing manmade space stuff against one representing the stuff naturally in space. A clumsy Rider who relies on a huge arsenal of tools against a skilled one who needs only his bare hands to fight. A Rider who couldn't hide his emotions if he tried against one actively putting up a front when he isn't transformed.

...And probably some other things I'm not even immediately thinking of. Meteor is so good. This show is so good.

Like I mention a bit in there, I'm really fond of that run of secondary Riders to begin with -- guys like Accel and Birth too, who have to look like they belong in the same show as the first while also having a wildly different concept, as opposed to duos like Ghost and Specter, or Blade and Ch-- Garren, where part of what defines the secondary guy as being secondary is how similar they are instead.

Meteor though, he might be THE guy who goes the most out of his way to make literally everything about him as opposite as possible from the main guy? And it's not just his suit and his shticks, too, but even the whole character of Ryuusei and frankly, like you quickly realized watching this one, it just adds *so* much spice to the show in a super fun way. One of the things that makes it work especially well, and one of the reasons you can't not have the embarrassing disco belt, is that Meteor's coolness, in the full context of the kind of guy Ryuusei is, always seems just a little... tryhard, in a way that feels entirely deliberate on the part of the show? It's this gray area where you can buy into the dude's hype or not and the show still works either way.