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Originally Posted by Tokumonkey

I was already loving the relationship between Sento and Ryuga because it doesn't feel like any of the recent Heisei primary-secondary Rider relationships. I'm used to having an forced-antagonistic relationship, and instead, they gelled as mismatched-friends almost immediately, and now, although it looks like they're heading for a conflict, it feels completely natural.

I think the reason why Sento/Ryuga works is that the writers have done well to establish their motivations

Sento: amnesiac, wants to learn about his past life as well as to defeat Faust, the org that captured and experimented on him. Saito, however, has influenced him to divert his energies toward also helping people. Now, we also learned he was an apparent college student in a band with a filfthy apartment that got his personality changed right as he got a new job

Ryuga: cagefighter framed for murder, then also captured an experimented on, seeking to clear his name and get revenge on Faust for using/killing his GF.

You can see the overlap that would bring them together (Faust) and also the chism between Sento wanting to help people due to Saito's influence and Ryuga's urgency for revenge and justice

It makes sense that will work together. From a practical standpoint, Ryuga is a fugitive who really needs the hideout and he can't really defeat smashes by himself and get into Faust, so he needs .Sento/Build, to a point

Really, exceptional writing and execution by all the production staff and actors to give us this much in 5 episodes