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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

I mean, you have to consider that Agito and Faiz were both written by Inoue and he LOVES to have at least one total jerkass character that is "technically" heroic. In Agito, it was Hojo who was actually a part-time Rider in that show. In Faiz, it was Kaixa. In Blade, the 3 non-main riders took turns being jerks.

As such, the progression to having a full-time Rider that is also a jerkass was pretty much expected. I mean, maybe the Ryuki influence is there, but it's probably a stretch to say Faiz would be drastically different if Ouja and Knight never existed.

I think it's overstating a bit to call Hojo a "part-time Rider" (pot calling the kettle black, I know). He was G3 for about an episode or two, and then a Metal Hero that one time. And once again, he's fighting monsters, not other Riders.

And just like everyone else, his problems are strictly with "Agito", the weird monster guy who keeps picking fights with other monsters, and not Shouichi, the guy selflessly fighting monsters to protect people.

This is what I keep trying to get at about the relationships between Riders being so different. In Ryuki, Shinji doesn't get along with so many of the other Riders because their personalities are so different. Takumi and Kusaka don't get along for the same reasons. Kenzaki and Hajime don't get along for the reasons. Tendou and Kagami have a rocky relationship for the same reasons. In Agito, the other guys all have problems with Agito specifically because they know nothing about him. He's just another mysterious creature in their minds.

The way you're talking about it you could pull out pretty much any one show without it affecting "the big picture", but I think it'd be easier to make the case that isn't true for Ryuki than it would be for most other shows. It was the result of the brand being in kind of a weird place and I don't think you can just "skip" to Faiz because without that year spent experimenting they might not have felt comfortable doing a lot of the stuff they did and calling it Kamen Rider.