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Originally Posted by Kurona

I agree, but I would hardly call Ex-Aid and especially Zi-O particularly 'dark' by Rider's standards. Zi-O honestly was far more lighthearted than your usual fare despite the premise.

Yeah, I can't speak to Zi-O or Zero-One, but I love Ex-Aid for how it never really feels that dark, even when it deals with heavy themes like guilt and mortality and failure. While it's got a darkness maybe at its core (debatable!), there's so much joy in its aesthetic (the colors, the music, the effects) that I don't think it plays as dark for most viewers.

I mean, every Kamen Rider show's going to have some darkness; it's an action-adventure show with monsters in it, it had goddamn well better have some darkness. But I don't think that darkness was especially prevalent in Ex-Aid.

Even Build had a lot of joy in it (one of its major themes was Peace And Love), but with a heavy war setting it's harder to argue for its exclusion.