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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Kiva
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06-10-2021, 05:44 PM
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With Nago's mission to change the past completed with surprisingly little trouble, the show sees fit to introduce a song it loves almost as much as Supernova. Just in case the regular version of Individual-System wasn't already enough Nago-y goodness for you, it's
Fight for Justice
!
It's just such a pleasant title, isn't it? You know a guy is
really
heroic when he feels the need to announce his own righteousness right in the title of his character song. While part of the point of TETRA-FANG was to have Kouji Seto singing most of the songs, there are a still decent assortment of tunes done in-character by the other actors, and in this case, we have Keisuke Katou singing as Keisuke Nago all about how great everyone's favorite button-happy manhunter/vampire slayer is.
I really love Fight for Justice. Individual-System already worked as a theme for Nago, and yet this version justifies its existence by being
Maximum Nago.
You've got the guy himself on the mic, a more dramatic (and maybe less fun) sound, and lyrics that are delivered with all the blunt force you'd expect from a man who's generally not one to mince words. Like so many songs from Kiva, it seriously feels like getting to know the entire character in just a few minutes. The very first lines of this one, translated sort of literally, are "If there is darkness in this world, I will set the trap called light", and the specific wording there is so perfect – reducing light to just being a
tool in Nago's arsenal
; a mere object in his self-satisfied quest against what he defines as evil. And then the whole rest of the song just keeps going at that level, with stuff like him throwing indirect shade at Wataru by calling destiny an excuse for weaklings, or proudly boasting in the chorus that his titular fight for justice isn't for the sake of others. It even makes the tiniest bit of room for a little acknowledgement that Nago's moral crusade may just be a way to distract himself from his own frustrating imperfections!
Yes, Fight for Justice is a truly excellent summation of Nago's personality up to this point... although maybe he's turning a bit of a corner here?
I'll say right now, I distinctly remember watching this episode the first time and reacting to Nago's mention of his playful heart with little more than a "...huh?", so I totally understand your frustrations with that central plotline, Die. Looking back at the episode, I feel like part of the problem is that, like I mentioned up above, it's
remarkably straightforward
. There was a half-second skimming back through the first part where I almost assumed, even having seen the episodes before, that there would be some twist where it turns out Nago himself was the Ixa in the past who caused the accident, because that just made sense in my head as the direction to take the story. But instead, it's seriously as simple as Otoya telling Nago to go fall for a woman to get stronger, him doing that, rewriting history, and then leaving. I don't think it's exactly flawed in its construction, but it feels like a script that needed some extra spark to it somewhere. A little more meat.
That being said... this is a pretty iconic set of Kiva episodes for me? (It was even a specific plot I knew happened before starting the show, which helps.) I guess I'm just a sucker for Nago, but, if you remember when I said Kiva has "
cute
problems" sometimes? A story like this kinda falls into that category. I can't help but look at this two-parter and just fondly be like "that's our Nago-san!", you know? Again, it's confusing when he asks everyone to observe his playful heart as though kicking off a wall exactly once was some great romantic stunt, but it's also
adorable.
Like, fine, I'll meet the story halfway. Him pulling off the finishing move because he learned to loosen up is even a legitimately great bookend in theory! There's a lot in here that's not thought out the best, for sure, but none of that is in a super frustrating way, which is at least something, I guess.
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