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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER DIE: I'm with you 100% on Maya and Yuri. I don't know if anything on that show topped the two of them detonating Rook across the decades.

Die, I'm pretty sure you got some things mixed up here, but considering the thread this is in, I guess we can brush it off by saying that this, too, is all Decade's fault.

Anyway, Kid Wataru is ~maybe~ my favorite AU Rider from Decade? The story these episodes told with him, I remember finding it really character-driven and engaging in a way I liked, and it held up rewatching it. They aren't as bombastic as the Kuuga arc, but they're way more well-rounded, I think.

(I also fundamentally like the order they chose here: Kuuga followed by Kiva. It makes sense to both of them early for different reasons, and in Kiva's case, there's the benefit of them still having whole sets lying around to add authenticity.)

These episodes also have the version of Newsuke I remembered, who actually does feel like Kuuga, albeit without the serenity Yuusuke had, which really just fits the idea of a guy who's character arc is about growing into that name all the more. Really good episodes for the guy, and like with Wataru, I recall being endeared to Newsuke quite a bit thanks to this story. Running around helping some kid just because is so fundamentally Kuuga it's probably the thing that made me forget he started out as kind of a jerk.