[DecoyBlackMage]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It was. The older shows had more ongoing storylines, though, which made the two-parters feel less episodic than the monster/victim-of-the-fortnight we got from Den-O on.

They where also quite gory, Kuuga and Agito are a bit absurd in how much murder goes in per episode not to mention how nasty some of said murders are, Kuuga is kinda notorious in that regard but still.

But when I watched through all of Agito a few months back it was pretty much two episode plots, though quite often there where more then one of the "monster of the week " as well, so the Rider would be killing shit often enough instead of random flash of dust ESCAPE, though tbf that trope is still there and I do not mind it that much, a fun cliche anyways.

Overall the murdering kept happening up to Kabuto and then it kinda stopped, I can only really recall one episode in Den-O where the monster won and the victim got deleted anyways, though it has been a few years since I watched that so, but the two parter thing seems to have been a thing most of the time, they just seem to have cut down on meaningful plot in some season to a heavy degree.