It's great that Rider history is back to what it was before Zi-O. Sad thing is, Kenzaki and Hajime are back to being Undead again.

If you never watched build or just watch this episode out of context as a rider fan, then it's pretty decent. Tsuki, decade, diend, and woz were wasted. Aqua didnt return. Woz and ohma zio are still confusing and the timeline mess is it a paradox or not? I didn't know aura really did die and now they're happy to lucky with the trio in a Build new world alike ending. Ohma zio sougo could still defeat Schwartz without tsuki intervention. Two new PB to sell. Question if ryuki/ren did it better or zio/geiz.dadsdasuot desi
Really need some expanding lore of royal family and ohma/woz, but like always they never give it to us and this series desperately needed more exposition. Pretty much ohma= all 2ndard and another ride watches, so it dwarfs grand and perhaps movie light version of ohma. The whole series is about him accepting ohma and rewrite history. We're next at square 1 with woz stalking. Vcinema and movie war might need some retcon, out if canon, or build level memory restoration. Out of all Heisei riders, only w manage to squeeze its vcinemas and movies together canon wise in nice smooth package.

Faiz and kaiza are dead like kiba. Damn, they cut the henshin poses. Did sougo cross slap tap side of the belt or just cross gesture. The same with final finisher. Like it or not, ohma zio stomp exaid, kuuga, dark kiva raw power wise and its gallery of technique is near infinite above decade and diend combine. Schwartz is just such a wild card obstacle. So his entire plan is force sougo to become ohma then steal shi power when he's still insecure and inexperience. I'm curious about the royal family world. Is it another decade shocker or ghost gangma family vibe? Tsuki and geiz transcend time and gets written by sougo as his bffs. It's weird he wipe his own memories as well.

That was a stupid plan....If he wanted Zi-O to become Ohma while being inexperienced and unsecure, It would have to be at Ohma Day...not at the end of the series. Schwartz is such a wasted character...

Also, have I said that Shirakura needs to be gone from Kamen Rider for good?
Yes I did...And I'm saying it again. Everytime that guy was in something, that thing become utter trash.

You complain about reset repeated endings and then what you want is Build's ending again. Do you know what you want?
Secondly, that even makes even less sense that Woz can just fix everything you can't just band-aid that sort of logic. It'd make more sense for Woz to sacrifice himself for his Ma-oh kinda like Phillip did for Shotaro in Double.

I think they pulled off Sougo's development in the end even if it was rushed late. Sougo realised how lonely being a king was from his older self and how tired and alone he sounded. So he chose his friends instead of his lifelong dream. It's about the journey to the conclusion, if you ask me.
The surprising thing I don't get how the time reset was a surprise for anyone. Did anyone really think we were ending with Oma-Zio taking over desolate world? Toei was never gonna do that as ballsy a move that may be..
I suspected a time reset ending after the build arc after all this being about time travel and Gokaiger being anniversary season that ended up reverting to status quo. So it was clearly bound to happen and I think they did this again because they heard ppl were happy about Build's ending because they were happy about Build overall. I will maintain this finale is better than Build's due to the action and character development but Build had better build-up.

I think they were trying to do a spider-verse storyline where the Kamen riders were the Spider-totems of each world and I liked that logic to make Tsukuyomi a Kamen Rider. Love her design but that betrayal and death was pointless. Like at least show Schwartz gullibly giving her power back to give it some reason y'know. I feel they were trying to copy the deaths off Build and to make Sougo feel alone but only Geiz should have died. That scene was well pulled off tho'

Is it me or was I the only one who saw the smokescreen that Sougo stepped out of before going Oma-Zio? It was clear Schwartz thought Zi-0 died in the blast because the smoke gave them cover.

And oh gods, no. Do you know how many rider wars we've had now in how many movies now? We even had one in the Edo era, for pete's sake. (Tho' the most interesting) we don't need Kamen Rider Taisen again or Gokaiger 2. Rather be show be unique than a ripoff but I will say the tributes could have been done better Gokaiger-style with the theme songs always in BGM instead of once or twice. That'd have helped it way more.

Zi-0 was fun goofy show with very loose time travel rules for a show and established that from the beginning. I think it was kinda clever to hide the slipshod mishmash of worlds into a plot point and use the Kamen riders as Totems. It'd have been cool to see the Kamen riders work together in a new way like Gentaro monitoring space and Kouta trying to fight the chaos of the time stream instead of just rider kicking the umpteenth time but actors don't seem to come back as much for Kamen rider sadly. Still better than build tho'
It got repetitive for a long time. Whereas Zi-0 had surprises and curveballs along the way, good or bad. That's why I'd take it over a show where you know what's coming.

There is a difference between surprises/plot twists and "we write nonsense just for the sake of "you didn't see it coming huh ?"".

I don't dislike Zi-O, but objectively you can't compare it to Build in terms of structure and plot/character development. Build felt written from ep1 to ep49 as one big thing (felt, not said it was) and every character felt like having a past that led them there. While Zi-O felt more like "so what are we going to tell this week ? oh yeah what about we go that way" and every character past is "they lived until now yo".

Just ask a random person to choose 1 single episode every 10 episodes of Zi-O (random numbers like I don't know : ep 1, ep 13, ep 28, ep 34, ep 45 etc...), and you can lose the guy because he will have a hard time figuring where we are in the show.
Just take the Geiz element "i want to kill you" => ""ok I tolerate you now" => "ok you're my friend somehow" => "no, I want to kill you again" => "i don't remember you" => "i'm dying for you".
or the sudden and random Tsukasa appearances all along the show.

You would lose anyone not sympathizing with the franchise

I'm not sure someone doing the same with Build would be lost the same way. For sure they would not understand everything (like suddenly Sento being referred as Katsuragi sometimes), but they would probably feel that some things happened in between and not just randomly shifted just like in Zi-O. And they would probably be able to guess where we are.

Awesome finale, but definitely was too rushed. It could've benefited having 2-3 more episodes.

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Even if it is just 49 episodes that they have explained the prequel to episode 1 on how OmaZio got his godly power in the first place; and how Alpina and Swartz are part of a royal family who can control and freeze time be all that powerful, no explanations at all were given for these. Why does Swartz wanted to be more powerful than Alpina when he's the eldest and even got Decade's power., these two could have been the Decade and Bishium siblings in another timeline or that they really were Oma's offsprings.

Stuff Zi-O didn't bother explaining:

- Where the Time Jackers came from

- Why they were so invested in dealing with Oma Zi-O

- Why they had Time Mazine's that looked like Ghost's Iguana thing and Kiva's Dragon Castle

- What the hell is the background of Swartz and Alphina outside of WE COME FROM A FAMILY THAT CAN CONTROL TIME

And biggest of all...

What the flying fuck were the DaiMazines?