[AkibaSilver]

Same as before, it was great chatting with you Die! Blade getting two tributes must mean it's the best series, right?

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Originally Posted by Kurona

All that is to say that I had never seen any of the Riders in this. Ever. And so I thought they were completely original Riders made up for Decade.

Like it kinda tracked! They looked pretty generic and samey to me; the belts seemed very simple and also generic; I didn't pick up on the cards and nothing else about them screamed Blade's aesthetic to me from what I'd seen... it wasn't until, well, I think actually not long before I watched Blade itself that I learned these guys existed before! It's so funny to me that even before I watched the movie and didn't care for it, I found every element of it presented to me prior so generic that I figured there was never a story crafted around them before.

Having done a little more thought about it, pretty much any other Riders would be identifiable to someone with a little knowledge. I suggested the Kabuto movie ones above, but they're still *very* Kabuto. Same with the Hibiki movie riders, and we already had the Ryuki ones, and pretty much every other movie Rider is a solo villain. The Missing Ace gang just happen to be nondescript enough to work stripped of any Blade context!

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Also interesting to note that I don't think they use the sound effects for the Missing Ace crew at all. So they have no actual announcements which just also keeps on the "We're not mentioning Blade" route they were going for.

You know, I think you're right, aside from the most minor of card swipey noises. After last time, where they had Dark Kiva say "Gabu" every time he was on screen and nothing else, that's gotta be deliberate.

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Regardless this wasn't like, a big, big set of episodes but I did like how Diend got focus. And honestly I managed to find his backstory a lot more bearable than Natsumi's. Because the flashbacks were pooled into one chunk and actually had plot details that weren't Daiki just hanging out with people and that just sorta being the only part of the flashbacks. These flashbacks were pooled together and given in one burst and told you what you needed to know.

I guess it also feels more bearable here because there's an arc, a flow to it. Natsumi's flashbacks were just "Here's me. hanging out with my friends you've never met before" until it turned out her friends were evil. An interesting choice.

(Also, because I didn't leave a post for the Dark Rider episode, I'll do it now - who was taking the photos of the Dark Riders murdering the humans?)