Well, everyone is a rider. The mechanic aka sword smith is one too. I guess he's sophia protector and safe guarding the hideout. We reached gaim level of rider in first quarter already. Gaim started with main 4 and then durian and nuts duo. Later there's the neo genesis rider trios as well as knuckle. It wouldn't be surprising they pass out swords to every random character there is. It really depends on how the writer handle the toy line.

"We may be ninjas but we don't hide! Hiding doesn't stop party night!"

Kenzan is my favorite Sword Rider so far. Besides being a ninja and fast, Ren has a lot of crazy energy and a psychopathic laugh. Despite being on the heroes' side, he's more committed to proving himself as a fighter than their crusade against Megid. He speaks very casually, even calling their boss Sophia with the "chan" suffix.

Sure, it was rude to call Touma a noob after meeting him but when I compare Touma to Rintarou, I think it's a fair critique. Rintarou wasn't carrying any auxiliary books in his debut since he left Tenkuu No Pegasus back at the base, testing the limits of his lesser forms to see how far he can push himself before resorting to upgrades. Touma acts just like a typical Primary Rider, always jumping to his strongest forms now that the "3 books is dangerous!" thing doesn't seem to be sticking at all. According to Daishinji, the bigger problem is that the Seiken Swords require more regular maintenance, like Touma is trying to play a shiny new game on a low-spec PC.

It's interesting how the wind elemental Kobuta San Kyodai can be used for wind and fire attacks depending on which Rider uses it, which makes sense considering the wolf antagonist was wind elemental but met his death by fire, just like the witch in Hanselnuts To Gretel. Kenzan is better attuned to it though since he's able to manifest the OP brick house while Saber is stuck with the fragile straw house, referencing Ren's desire to prove himself as the superior Rider. It's cool how these books reflect the characters who use them. I've seen people speculating that Ren's going to die but in the original faerie tale, the pig with the brick house is the only character who survives.

From a dead fortune teller to Rintarou's dead mentor, why does Mikami keep getting typecast as posthumous characters?

I get why you'd exclude The Bee but Ibuki is only as blue as Hibiki (in his default form) is red so I think that should also be excluded.

Dude, you just made a double pun right there and didn't notice!

Someone translated the Saberscript letters (or whatever they're called) from the book Touma was reading in this episode.

https://twitter.com/ZacEnzr/status/1...581804546?s=19

Rintaro is my favorite Rider so far and I'm rooting for him to get his sweet vengeance.

I feel like he is the glue holding the whole team together right now.