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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I don't know, I like him okay? I like how he's an additional pressure on Hayami, whose near-death experience with Fourze in the vacuum of space is somehow just the precursor to an even more terrifying meeting with Gamou, because we are in the phase of this show where Libra is constantly terrified of being Dark Nebulaed, instead of just frequently terrified. Leo gets to be the grown-up for Hayami to interact with, after a dozen-plus episodes of deranged students and sycophantic acolytes. Leo's just, like, Do Your Job, Man, and he'll fight a dude outside a bar if it gets things how Gamou wants them. I enjoy his professionalism and walnut-based diet!

I'll talk more about this later when we see another side of Leo's personality, but for now, I'll agree about his entertaining rivalry with Hayami and good taste in walnuts. I guess one of the Horoscopes needed to fill this role, as it's not like you can expect to find the total mystery of Virgo casually drinking at a bar.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Yukina deciding that the grand gesture of taking the Fourze Driver from Gentarou was worth it despite the imminent and verifiable danger it puts him in due to the gesture being colossally short-sighted is kind of exactly the sort of thing Gentarou would do five years later! Maybe because of this!!!

Except Yukina takes away Fourze Driver as she mistakes it for a burden, whereas 5 years later Gentarou throws away Fourze Driver as he believes his friend will return to him, which is proven true in HeiGen Final.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Also, dunno why I didn't realize it sooner, but it's a TIL that Fourze's icons are the same as PlayStation controller's buttons.

Fourze is a PlayStation and EX-Aid is an XBox. Donbrothers also have buttons and D-pads, but I can't identify which console they're from.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

And recently, Tachibana's actor Kousei Amano also returns again in Zeztz as the tertiary Rider Dawn.

Are you still following Zeztz?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I guess I can say this better now after watching this episode, as Fourze's first time for me. As shown in this episode, Gentaro still qualifies for the title of True Kamen Rider what the fanbase gatekeeps about, in him sacrificing what he (or maybe what people think humans would want more) wants for the good of others in him constantly fighting and risking his life as a Kamen Rider, preventing himself from spending his youth to have fun. This still fits, at least in fanbase's eyes, "Hongo taking the lonely path is so nobody else has to" (albeit Heisei era onwards do have human allies alongside the main Rider more, for other series too not only KR), where Gentaro lets others spend their younger days having fun by spending his time fighting monsters as Kamen Rider. So I guess, Gentaro would do nothing to deter those fanbase's martyrdom complex.

Unfortunately, yeah, seems like gatekeepers still miss the whole point about Gentarou's motivation despite Yuki literally spelling it out for Yukina and the audience that fighting is simply what he does, not something he forces himself to do out of necessity. Asking him not to fight is asking him not to be Gentarou and that really would be a sacrifice that benefits nobody. Fighting can be a way to protect your friends and depending on the redeemability of the enemy, it can be a way to make new friends.