At least this time, the dancing has a little contribution to the story, not just a random dancing sequence & gimmick.

Blade kept it at a nice 4 riders. Kabuto kept bringing riders left and right though to the point that it felt forced in. The series could have done without the pointless Hoppers (regardless of how cool they were), Sasword, and Drake.

Another interesting interview.
And it seems Uorobochi does plan to go his usual way with Gaim.

I'm glad they ditched the 2 Rider element. The shows were becoming copy paste of:

15 episodes on main Rider
5 to 10 episodes on secondary Rider
Remainder of series on relationship between 2 Riders and a "big bad" reveal with quick conclusion

Just out of curiosity regarding the dancing in Toku....was everybody expecting Stomp the Yard or So You Think You Can Dance? levels of performances? Since when did the fandom become so attuned to dance routines?

Its in the show, I'm not really bothered by it but some of the comments about the dancing feels ridiculously over-critical.

Anyway as a big Ryuki fan this sounds good to me and if they choose to stay with a smaller core of Riders (4 always seems to be a good number thus far) I don't see anything wrong with it. Ryuki had some pretty weird tragedies...Satoru coming to mind. But my biggest concern is that they try to to go overboard with an Ouja/Asakura character. Asakura worked because he was an extremely unique character. Its tempting to try and replicate it but because they've kind of dropped too many Ryuki hints it might feel a little too tacked on.

Eh, but then again, it's a Kamen Rider series and Toei has the last word on it. So as long as we're still at the begin, everything's still open.
(But then again, I don't think Urobuchi is THAT messed up to turn Gaim into Kamen Rider Madoka anyway. Let's say he BETTER NOT because I don't like Madoka...)

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I uh, I don't think I see it.

Don't see what? That the character worked or that he was unique at his time?

Asakura was far from unique, and was a terrible character. He was a cartoonish psychotic moron who just gleefully did evil acts for no reason and had no depth or motivation. He just killed and killed and smiled all the time and it was boring and stupid.

Ryuki was awesome, but Ouja was a black mark on the series. Not until the final episode did I ever give a shit about what happened. He was a lazy tool of the writer to be a boogeyman for the other characters to be scared off, and had no personality outside of "boy do I love killing." And he just looked up with his head down like a typical psycho. Flat as a board that character was. I kept expecting him to do something but it never happened.

You just didn't notice. In the episode with Reiko he talked about he he almost starved to death and if you notice in other episodes he actually does nice things like offering food to other because maybe despite being a psycho he doesn't believe in people starving.

He was carnage to everyone's ambition. When he found out through Reiko that he missed his brother when he set their house on fire as a kid he lied through his teeth and played a victim all so he could finish the job.

That made him different from any and every Rider to date. Lazy tool for writers? Give me a break. This is why we can't get nice things. He wasn't the strongest Rider by any stretch and his character was a perfect foil to Kitaoka's. He made Kitaoka's character look good.

I mean why do you think Kanzaki offered him the belt in the first place and gave him so many chances? He was Kanzaki's ringer in the Rider War to thin out the herd. Ren was stoic but hesitant when it came to killing, Shinji was never ever going to kill in the first place and Kitaoka was sickly. Asakura was Kanzaki's safe bet.