Well, Mai isn't exactly a "bad" character per se. She had her contributions to the plot. If she was not there, the plot would have been different. We could have not seen how deranged Micchy could be. We could have not seen how far Kaito would go to obtain the Golden Fruit. Heck, we might have not seen Kouta become Gaim if it isn't because of her. We may have not seen Bujin Gaim as well like the above statement said. I could say she was...a catalyst? I could be wrong tho. Wasn't the tree inside located at their former shrine that became Yggdrasill after? Wasn't she also the shrine maiden for the said place?

imho Mai is one of the more useful female leads we've had so far in the franchise, if not one of the best female leads. tbh, should there be a bad female lead, that should be Yui from Ryuki. That's another topic tho.


Juuuust my two cents.

Well... I just watched the last two episodes of Gaim now that exam week is over. 46? Friggin' awesome. 47? Just left me asking "why?" It had some genuinely great moments, like Gridon becoming a Kurokage trooper in honor of his old friend, but a lot of it just felt like some kind of internet fanfic, between the old villain coming back for one last go and every character getting redeemed or getting a happy ending just because. To me, 46 will always be the true finale of Gaim. That was a nice medium. Micchy got some happiness but still had to live with what he done, Kaito got a satisfying ending, and we didn't have exposure to a movie rider that half the people watching the series are completely clueless about. Just kinda bummed that Gaim went out with a bit of a whisper in comparison to how the rest of the show went. Oh well, it is still by far and away my favorite Rider series yet.

Well you do have a point. I think it would be nice if Shinnosuke and his partner could have got a cameo similar to Kengo and Yuki's cameo at the end of OOO can lead up to the first episode of Drive. I love that W - Gaim exist in the same world unlike in the past where the post-Showa rider shows expect for Kuuga and Agito before W took place in their own universe.

Drive is the 16th Heisei Rider. They changed things with Decade and W, maybe they're going to try something new with the next five shows (Neo-Neo-Heisei)?

I don't think Gaim is in the same World as the previous Neo-Heisei Riders, specifically because of the way his cameo happened. He cameoed in an entirely different World, so who's to say he wasn't summoned from his own World, while the other Riders were summoned from theirs?

Decade connects all the world now, becuase Decade.

Wizard did it.

I'm disappointed about Jam. Couldn't he separate himself from the gold and silver apple riders?

What if he was the third apple rider created from the negativity of Kaito and Mitsuzane? And he would've looked like Yuuya. Perhaps as a darkness from the golden fruit after Kouta ate it.

What are your ideas if Jam isn't Kougane?

But Jam IS Kougane. That's why his suit looks like a version of the apple riders, it is one. Why speculate otherwise?