Technically, Tiger and Sasword bought the farm in Christmas episodes. And Another Agito and Zanki kicked the bucket in episodes airing around that time (the latter?s demise aired on the 25th, much like Kiriya?s). The main difference with them is that their deaths were foreshadowed to some degree (okay, Tiger?s wasn?t really, but he was in a show where ?anyone can die? was in full effect), whereas Kiriya?s wasn?t even hinted at until it happened, with even the episode basically being a totally different plot until then.

I love that kamen rider has two tones of violence:
1. I'll fade into sparkles cause we cant show a corpse
2. I'll punch a man and rip out his intestines.

The main thing is not to be mediocre.

I saw this bull and thought that he looked a little like Fangire.
https://i.ibb.co/54mSpdZ/IMG-0384-1.jpg

By the way, this is probably a projection, but I thought that the bear riders in the "Geats" basically correspond to their animals. Dapan is a weak rider, unable to survive on his own and too bad-tempered to make friends. Shiro, the "polar bear", is a strong player (after all, third place in the past DGP), but is doomed to die due to circumstances that he cannot influence. PunkJack, the "brown bear", is the most successful of the trio.

It'd probably happen as Win, but so far Punk Jack is also quite "weak" in DGP, at least in the stage he's assigned in Concentration, he's the worst Rider to be paired off with anyone there, giving them near auto-loss due to his single-minded track hampering the team. Before I already felt that the end of ep. 5 was a quite big cliffhanger for Keiwa (and it was confirmed by Neon and Ace in-universe).

Obviously, the role of a dumb bot was either a condition for his participation in the game; or bullying a partner on his own initiative. I think we'll find out the answer when Win shows himself as a character.

I think Keiwa is gonna be really popular even if he isnt gonna be as focused on as much after his first retirement. Thinking about that made me realize a lot of the secondary riders to Ace riders are popular. Kagami, Banjou, Diend (who's name I dont know, sorry)... It's weird we've only had like 4 ace riders.

Man, I hope not. I'm having a hard time connecting with most of the characters in Geats so far, but Keiwa is definitely the one that actively annoys me. I get that the show is going for a Tendou/Kagami vibe with him and Ace, but Ace lacks Tendou's charisma and Keiwa leans too far into the naive optimism. He was starting to get better near the end of round 1, but I absolutely did not miss him in the most recent episode.

You mean Geats, Build, Decade and Kabuto? I disagree. At a minimum, it seems to me that Wizard, Hibiki, Agito, Stronger and V3 can be added to this list.