I came to it in the most bassackward way possible, having been given THE endgame spoiler as literally my actual introduction to it, but even so: my god, what a fuckin show.

your kokoro is now tsurugi

it is. it is tsurugi.

anyway shoutout to Kenzaki Kazuma, world's Goodest Boy and noted innovator in the field of simultaneously both marrying and divorcing a guy

Brave

blade such good shit

the op song are still among my favs

I'm hurting myself now by reading fanfic

you can fit so much Yearning into this ship

Blade was my first Kamen rider

It forever has a place in my heart

a well-earned place

god. for like almost the first 20 episodes I was like "eh, this is okay, I'm a medium-low level of interested, but everyone I know who's seen this loves it deeply so I'm going to let it cook"

and then it got cooking.

and now I just don't know how to keep living in this world as a person who has experienced that finale. who am I. how do I persist after what Kenzaki did for Hajime.

like I was shitposting about it last night but I am DISTRAUGHT.

how is it hitting me like this when I knew it was going to happen

literally the fact that he does that is the ONE THING I KNEW GOING IN! THE ONE THING!

MY EXPERIENCE OF WATCHING KAMEN RIDER BLADE WAS "THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW KENZAKI DOES THAT THING FOR HAJIME"

I think it helps that you didn't know he did it for hajime. you just knew it happened.

yeah.

I mean, like, I kind of had an inkling that it was for hajime, because of how sven and duo were talking about "Kenzaki" in Gorider, but like

I somehow, still, did not expect, the singleminded intensity with which he did it for hajime

like. that boy DECIDED what he was gonna do, SEVERAL episodes sooner than any other character realized that he was gonna do it

okay I said sven and duo but I just searched up the conversation and no it was in fact just duo

sanduophon thank you for being so bladepilled that your reactions to gorider caused me to bladepill myself out of curiosity

sven did also say things about blade but it was in fact Duo's Kenzaki Kazuma Dissertation that seeded my interest.

i am and always will be blade's strongest soldier

and i will always welcome other into the fold. i'm very glad you enjoyed it

I enjoyed it very much

I have been slowly unraveling about it all day as I just sit with and process it