[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by r4bbitdragon

I think people have generally tried to be hopeful about Reiwa, about it being an upgrade for Rider's female characters? How true that is series to series under close examination is it's own matter, but at least visually: hey! It's basically standard the tertiary rider is a Girl now! Big win for Women, right?

I really think a lot of viewers overestimate the importance of the belt to women and characters in general.
Firstly, there are now more rider characters than civilian ones, so the belt is not of particular value.
Secondly: the fate of the tertiary rider, starting with Gills, is a series of suffering, and most often even without much reward in the final. In principle, Kento is a vivid example of this (if I don?t spoil the Saber finale).
Thirdly: the best female characters in the franchise were either not riders (Akari, Ozawa, Sawatari, Hirose, Akiko, the entire Fourze Rider Club), or they were loved for things not related to being a rider (I don?t think many here can name a favorite fight Poppy, right?)
And fourthly, no matter how ridiculous it may sound, for the first time we got a woman of a tertiary rider back in Faiz. In fact, it seems to me that at the beginning of the 2000s, the situation developed quite well for female riders, slowly, but in the right direction. And then something stalled on Kabuto.