How do you choose to view Rider continuity?
 

We know that the Showa Riders all exist in the same universe, as do W-Drive, and SOME form of Kuuga must have existed before the events of Agito. Outside of that, it can be pretty spotty though.


How do you guys view it? Do all Riders exist in one shared universe? Do they work like the DC multiverse where they're all connected by each Rider's world standsalone? Or are they just separate altogether?

I think in some way shape or form all the Showa Riders and the Heisei Riders exist in the same universe except for Kabuto because that's a physical impossibility and Decade is from a different world.

Yeah, that pretty much works for me too. I'm sure if I cared enough about Kabuto I'd figure out some sort of time-bendy head canon to make that work too.

I just look at the continuity in a very loose way. They exist in the same universe...somehow and that works for me :)

With Shibuya being destroyed in Kabuto it makes it way too difficult to be in continuity with anything else.

I view the Heisei series as originally taking place on separate worlds (except Kuuga and Agito), but Decade then retroactively merged those universes during his ending movie. Kind of like what happened to the DC universe during Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Decade.
Multiple universes. Multiple continuities.
There doesn't have to be a single canon because Decade is their easy out button from now on.

I actually agree with this POV as well in terms of Rider continuity.

Everything is separate, but the introduction of Decade into the Rider franchise basically established that the separate stories/continuities/universes can merge at any moment without a "detailed reasoning" behind it.

Hell, Rider movies up until Den-O were all alternate universes, so they established the idea early on.
So Black and Black RX can be the same person in one universe, or two separate universes altogether (As Decade tried to establish).

Kuuga and Agito share the same world.
From Ryuki to Kiva they are pretty much their own thing.
Den-O and Kiva I GUESS you can say they share the same world cause of Climax Deka but if we are purely looking at tv shows only they are seperate.
Decade is pretty much its own thing which tried to unite the previous nine but failed imo.

Then from W to Fourze they were shared via Foundation X but that kind of withered away after Wizard.