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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Den-O
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04-15-2021, 10:06 PM
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KAMEN RIDER DEN-O EPISODE 47 - "MY LAST MOMENTS MADE YOU CRY”
I really wish this episode worked for me. I wanted it to!
So badly!
I
tried
to connect with it. I tried to find something in it that I'd care about. I just... man, nothing in this one was clicking for me. Like, at all. My enthusiasm for this show was evaporating like Kintaros.
It's the death/”death” of Kintaros, and the fact that I need to cite its alleged status is maybe a giveaway for why I couldn't muster up much regret about it. There's a sweetness on the surface of Kintaros' willingness to buy Ryotaro the chance to save Airi. Kintaros sends his friend off with the consolation that, since Imagin don't really get pasts or futures, Ryotaro's friendship gave Kintaros a present worth being proud of, worth fighting to protect. That's nice.
I just, boy, I just didn't care about it. It's a sweet moment surrounded by an episode that feels... forced? There's very little
flow
to this one. There's an Owner/Station Master scene, and then some New Year's comedy with the DenLiner crew that telegraphs its story almost as much as putting it in the episode title, and then some New Year's comedy with the human cast, and then a dual-pronged assault by Kai that takes up the back half of the episode. It's not really an episode that uses different scenes to build and relieve pressure, to cut back and forth. It's just a bunch of comedy stuff and We Are In The Endgame winks, and then a Kai attack. It feels small, and dramatically insufficient.
The Kintaros versus Kai's Imagin battle, it just felt too tiny to work for me. Having it all happen in some weird corner of a building was a not-great choice, but the problems end up being larger than the staging. (The staging is bad, though! Bad choice by the director!) It's his death because the show kind of arbitrarily decided that he was dying so he'll choose to die now. It's not out of character, or anything. Kintaros is the most self-sacrificing of the Imagin, and all of the DenLiner Imagin have been very clear about their intent to die on their own terms. It happening here, though, in
this
way... it felt like it was happening because it was Episode 47, not because this battle needed it or Kintaros couldn't last any longer. It felt rushed, and I couldn't buy into.
That was pretty much the whole episode for me. Nothing in it mattered to me, or felt like it was here for a valid narrative reason. All of the New Year's stuff felt massively out of place in a final storyline, where the cast is celebrating renewal and new opportunities a day after sending Past Airi off to be... somethinged. (Salt in the wound, there's a scene with Ryotaro and Yuuto where they specifically say they don't understand what Airi and Sakurai were doing, and just sort of shrug their shoulders at it. I loved the Airi scene for her ignoring the mechanics of the plot, but these two don't have any excuses! They should be working to solve this problem!) I get that the show wants to do a One Last Day with all of our friends (Owner directly calls it out; not a subtle episode), but it killed all of the tension coming out of the last story, so that the eventual superhero action feels too sudden, too obligatory.
Watching this episode was, by far, the most bizarre experience I've had watching Den-O. I could watch this episode, but I just could not
care
about it. I felt like Airi, where all of my memories of Den-O were gone, leaving me to stare blankly at its characters and situations. I was so ready to be excited about this episode, after 46. But this was just weightless to me, uninspired.
Sorry I couldn't find anything in it to care about. Not a fun one to watch, this close to the end.
THE BAGGAGE CAR
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