Yeah Ryuki is a nice show. It has some issues (some of which are quite BIG), but it's easily my favorite Rider by Kobayashi.

I am love Ryuki too. My best things about Ryuki is each Rider has their own plan and they are kill each other in battle royal fight.

I am really want next Rider after Ex-Aid will be has battle royal fights between Riders.

Ryuki DID nearly get the franchise offed due to being so different from the formula iirc. Though that's when Toei also started targeting mothers of the kids in their audiences

Speaking of Ryuki, I wonder, is the Episode Final movie the canon ending, not the one in the series?

I mean, in that movie, Ouja, Femme and Ryuga died and stayed dead, Zolda quitted the war, Ryuki and Knight are the only riders left, rushed in to destroy the horde of Hydragoons before their last fight to end the war.

And as we see, Ryuki can still access his rider form in many canon movies after, Ouja is "revived" in Brave's spinoff, bla bla bla...

Speaking of Brave's Spinoff, Did Foundation X revive Ouja as a Necro-Over? because his death looks like one's.

If I remember correctly, the movie was made as the team predicted the show would get cancelled and wouldn't be able to finish it's run, so it's left as a conclusion just in case. I think it's both, unlike Ex-Aid's upcoming movie which is the canon ending and the show itself will compliment it after it's done or something

Yeah, the explanation is that the movie is the ending but the series will actually be enriched or change it's meaning or something if you watch it? I dunno, sounds more ambitious than Toei are probably capable of.

The Episode Final and 13 Riders special are previous versions of the Rider War that were erased with the Time Vent card. The series ending is the true, final end of the Ryuki story. That's the standard explanation for how the film and special fit into the series chronology.

That's how I always saw it. Episode Final and the 13 Riders Special were previous timelines that Kanzaki wasn't happy with since Ryuki wouldn't ever obey the rules of the Rider War.


As far as the actual ending of the show goes, I'm once again torn. At first, it seems like a huge cop out to erase everything that happened through the show and especially because it resets the friendship between Shinji and Ren but at the same time, it's an ending that actually makes sense in the context of the show.

Regardless, it somehow doesn't stop Ryuki from showing up in crossovers occasionally. In my head canon, all succeeding Rider shows are following the continuity of Episode Final and not the last 15 episodes of the show. It makes sense. In that continuity, Shinji still has his powers and isn't dead, Asakura is dead which explains the need to resurrect him in the Brave special, and Kitaoka isn't outright stated to have died of his disease like in the show and can technically still become Zolda, which also explains his recent reappearance in Ex-Aid, unless there's some sort of alternate explanation in that movie.

In my head canon, Ryuki still shows up in crossovers because $$$. :p

I can't wait to see new Kamen Rider Series announcement in end of May or around June.

Maybe this time Toei's creative team already found a new theme for next Kamen Rider series.