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Originally Posted by Paladin

Seems there is a familiar face showing up in this years' movie...

Finally! Gotchard is now officially a crossover/anniversary series. Congratulations!

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

So what you're saying is franchises can't change or be experimental?

But also this and all of your writing thus far has just given me one point of view of this entire situation. You have a vision of what Kamen Rider should be in your head and anything that strays from that vision is "bad writing". Just say that a Rider series isn't for you and just move on at this point.

That's also not getting into how just... terrible this statement reads at all. And your attempt at elaborating still does not make this read any better btw.

You're going to refute this point btw, and tell me I'm wrong. I really don't care tbh. But I know what I see because I see the same in a lot of Rider fans. And I'm just putting this out here for anyone who comes across it to see. Because it's a damn problem in this fandom that needs to be addressed and it's tiring to see people try and promote their personal distaste for a series as objective criticism. A rigidness of people unwilling to realize that times are changing and that things will be different than what they originally saw.

When and where did I say or imply that a franchise can't change nor be experimental? Of course they can change and be experimental. My point is not about changing nor not changing something per se. My point is about how those changes fit the already established standards. I even stated in my previous comment that a heroine-Rider hybrid character can be done, albeit very very very difficult since it will have to fill 2 important roles at once.

Everything has its own established standards/aspects. Some of those aspects can be changed, and some can't be changed due to being fundamental. Some change is good, and some is bad. If I want to change a franchise merely for the sake of changing it, then I should replace Kamen Rider's main character with a young woman, and replace Precure's main characters with boys, effectively rebranding the franchise as Handsome Cure. They're changes, right? They're "innovative", right? Maybe someday it will happen when humanity decide that left is right and right is left.

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Originally Posted by JustAfooL

Well, if we look at the scene when Haruto stands up to pseudo-Eternal, who?s the person that gives him the final shove to fight on? Whose words get the most emphasis at that moment?

There?s your answer.

Haruto? You mean Houtarou? Unless you refer to Houtarou as Haruto due to Gotchard being as vapid as Wizard was, haha.

Yes, you could be right. Kajiki is Houtarou's heroine, and Hijiri is Kajiki's heroine. It's a fractal multiplication of heroines! Haha.

Kajiki's face when he finally receives the epiphany that he's actually the heroine in this story: