The Hibiki episodes is actually one of the very very few times he remembered he can transform and used it to try and fight off a makamou. ... before promptly getting curbstomped into the ground, because this is how we're treating the Rider that started it all.

I liked a lot of the AR worlds honestly. I think I've said before that I enjoyed Kabuto and Kiva's AR Worlds better than their actual series; and to an extent the same goes for Hibiki.

For me Ryuki and Blade felt like they made best use of the AR gimmick/concept.

I probably liked the Faiz and Blade AR Worlds best. The whole Lucky Clover being the most popular kids in school thing was great. Of course, I like Faiz in general more than most I think. It's one I hear people rag on pretty often, like Kiva.

I do think Zi-O having ACTUAL cameos is definitely nicer than just seeing the suits again like in Decade. I know Decade had a few cameos, but Zi-O has done a lot better.

Maybe it's because I haven't seen Agito, but I'm a fan of that arc. Plus, doesn't it actually give Onodera something to do? It's been years since I've seen Decade, so I might be wrong.

Failing that, Hibiki and Blade are two strong ones. Ryuki is nice, but the lawyer gimmick just feels too... over the top. Not unusable, especially since we've done "Riders as a profession" already, both in Ex-Aid and the upcoming Zero One, but... eh, idk.

You're probably mixing it up with the Nega World, when three women turned out to be monsters he just ran away there. In the Hibiki World, he was watching the situation from the distance, but when Gyuki appeared he actually transformed to fight, but just got beaten up.

I doubt it. His problems are due to writing, not acting.

Yeah it does appear that the writers are the ones who wrote Onodera poorly.

That being said, Decade being a recurring character in Zi-O is basically what Onodera or Kuuga should have been in Decade. Although they're lucky Masahiro Inoue is willing to reprise his role multiple times in the series.

Miharu did say that Tsukuyomi and Geiz are from different time dimension, meaning there are also timelines in which sougo is not oma zi-o...

Tsukuyomi seems to come from an AR world where her and Schwartz's families rule, so her being in Zi-O's world in unnatural and messing with things.

Geiz, meanwhile, comes from the Oma Zi-O timeline, yes.

Presumably, there are timelines where Sougo won't be/isn't Oma Zi-O, but they all take intervention outside the normal flow of time, OR are seperate worlds entirely. Ie all the other Rider series which show a future, or White Woz's future.

That's my interpreation, anyway.

So, if episode 48 is the final fight with Oma Zi-O, any ideas as to what episode 49 will be?

The actual final fight with Oma Zi-O