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Originally Posted by NGW

Fun fact, not sure if it was brought up, the different versions of the opening instrumental each corresponds to the rider the episode focuses on, at least if I remember right.

That's what I remembered, too. The recording I have of the extended Hibiki theme (basically the same theme reiterated five times) confused me, though, because it doesn't contain the clear trumpet/Ibuki theme I'd remembered. (It goes standard > vocal > guitar/Zanki > strings? huh? > partially-united, and I can't make out any electric guitar in the final version at all (yet it's got trumpet.) I'm about to go on a tear to confirm my memory of what the openings actually did. I didn't even notice that they were varying the theme (if they did so) until Ibuki showed up.

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

I warmed to it eventually though but then it was like at the last second they changed their minds and Asumu became a doctor.

If the Riderwiki article is to be believed, it was literally that. Supposedly, there were major rewrites as the final episode was being shot.