[Kurona]

I really felt this like arc in particular was a statement of intent of the AR World riders? That they're not just quick and easy replacements. Because like, from episode 1; they have the actor for Wataru Kurenai right there! As an actual character! And they... do not use him for this episode, and in fact go out of their way to make his 'replacement' very obviously different by making him a child. This is the AR Rider choice that stood out to me the most as their being intentionally distinct characters and that they were doing something with this idea, rather than just waving it off as 'well we can't get the old one back so just do whatever'.