Marika has to be my 2nd favorite energy rider and 2nd favorite peach rider.
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Marika is the one character I couldn't stand in Gaim. She gets respect for being the most prominent female Rider in the franchise, but she was so awfully characterised that it pretty much negates all of that.

Thank god, I’m not the only one who thinks that.

In a direct comparison between Sid and Yoko, I would still pick Sid as the better character, even though he’s just the bad bully with big ambitions.

But Yoko? All I can think is “Fangirl”. In the worst way possible. Everything she does is fanatically following a dude and when she thinks he’s not worth it anymore she follows the next one. She never does anything for herself or her own good. You may think: “She decided to do that so that’s her thing” but that’s crap. She’s even sicker then Mitsuzane if that’s all what she does.

I seriously expected her to rebel against Kaito when he lays out his plans and die fighting him because she realized what she really wanted in life (not being a doormat for someone else) but taking a blow for him only to die without achieving anything… that’s ass.

I’m really torn because her actress looks like a very nice and funny woman on the set-pictures, but I hate the role she plays.

When it comes to Rider-forms Marika is my least-favorite one in the entire show. Maybe because they gave the girl a pink peach-form. Like… really? And the looks aren’t that great either, the helmet looks really weird. What jumps the shark though are the giant boob-bags the armor has. They disappear when the armor attaches but you can clearly see what they wanted to do with this.

I wish we get another female badass Rider sometime, but with better characterization.

Sid I kind of like as the slimy dealer, I think his actor plays this well. I like the Rider-form with the Nordic tone, the crown looks a little weird but overall pretty good. Imagine someone who can actually fight in this and I like it even more.

If they do FiguArts of Marika and Sigurd I would gladly buy the later, maybe Marika too for a complete set of Next-Gen Riders. Maybe they sell them in a two-pack to make my decision easier.

Oh my god they killed Demon Knight!
Justirisers, "YOU BASTARDS!"

To defend the boob bags part I will have to say that when the armour is a fruit and unfolding it is larger in proportion like the AC figures, hence those...bags. When the armour forms, the proportion is like SHF. I don't know if you are referring to something else but that's my reply.

I also agree with the peach fruit thing, it looks good on nothing but Marika, as if it was made solely for Marika's base suit.

Also, can someone tell me what is Yoko role's in the story? I have not paid close attention to what goes on and what is said.

To be fair, with the exception of Baron Lemon Energy (which was completely unplanned) all of the Energy Arms were tailored to one specific suit. In fact, considering how Minato is able to summon the Marika suit using Ryoma's Driver, I'd go so far as to say that, unlike the Genesis Drivers and normal lockseeds, the Energy Locks contain the data for both the base suit AND the arms. I assume Kaito's was modified in some way- I don't seem to remember him needing to replace his Lemon Energy lock.

Good point too, maybe Lemon Energy has too much Ryoma Cape Swag that it outshines Peach.

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In the transformation-scenes from the side you can see it even better. These boob-things are huge in the 3D-model, and they get flattened out once the real suit comes in.

I know the proportions change on other arms too but it just looks weird. An armored suit shouldn’t have breasts to begin with.

"You're so awkward.." I am going to miss you Minato-chan..

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RIP Peachy Queen of Badasses.