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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

And the excitement for Gaim seems to stem from it allegedly dropping the 2 part episode format that started up with Den-O (Or Kabuto. Been a while since watching Kabuto, and I don't remember if it had the 2 episode format), allowing for greater plots by allowing the primary story to be in the forefront rather than taking a backseat to the character of the week's problem.

The 2-episode thing has actually been around pretty much since Kuuga. It just became way more prominent around Kabuto and Den-O when the shows stopped investing a lot of time in ongoing plot arcs. Den-O also specifically brought in the "victim of the fortnight" concept that became the driving focus of pretty much every series after that. The format was still a little loose in Kiva and Decade, but from W onwards we've just gotten show after show that sticks to the basic Den-O format:

- Two main Riders; main is goofy, secondary is serious (I'm counting Gotou for OOO here, since Date being around for most of the series was an awesome accident) (also, this was obviously inverted in Wizard)

- Main character has a non-human partner(s) who directly helps him fight (Taros, Philip, Ankh, Kengo - again inverted in Wizard because Koyomi's actress was unavailable)

- Weird older male authority figure

- Female character with some degree of tsundere-ness.

- Monster of the fortnight whose plan is to in some way create/work off of a negative human emotion.

- Victim of the fortnight who is the main focus of each two-part plot.

Honestly, I am definitely one of those who is looking forward to Gaim moving away from this pattern. It's not a bad way to run a show, but it's all we've gotten since '09 and I really want to see something different again.

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Originally Posted by Den-O

When did we decide it was time travel? If those kids could call out to Gaim and Haruto from separate worlds and bring them in, I assumed that the Nitou in question came from a world where he hadn't lost his powers yet. A world similar to Haruto's own but one that hadn't progressed as far yet. I didn't look at as a timeline thing.

Haruto straight up said last week that this must be Kousuke from an earlier point in time.

I also forgot to mention this, but it was kinda nice to see Beast totally job to a villain one last time.