[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Regrettably, I once also claimed Isamu was more of a protagonist than Aruto,

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Yuto as protagonist sounds incredulous, since he doesn't even appear until Episode 19. Shinji and Ren seem like equal protagonists in the story though, at least for the time when the Heisei format was being developed.

People just make that claim on anyone they feel that stole the show, and they generally think it's measured by how much development they get, where usually the less moral/righteous characters get more development than the do-gooder type of character, or at least they feel like that on the surface due to the change of the former being more drastic (becoming nicer) than the latter (which isn't completely visible to them if they're similarly nice from beginning to end, and people can think being righteous means having no flaws/being a Mary Sue).

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Even in EX-Aid where it's the Primary Rider, it's M who shines, not Emu.

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Originally Posted by StardustWhip

The early trailers had me thinking at first he'd be a suave cool guy hero like Ace or Tendou, and that would've been interesting enough, but I really like this approach where he's just a generally nice and rather dorky guy that really just wants to help people, and becomes a suave secret agent in his dreams.

May apply here too between Baku (Emu) and DreamBaku (M). And this approach isn't the first thing Takahashi has done, where there's the dorky and suave duality in Emu and Genius Gamer M in Ex-Aid. For me, honestly, based on the Ichigo tribute on Zeztz's look and the cast that seems more reminiscent of Showa and early Heisei seasons (one main Rider, various supporting casts), I expected Baku to be like the Showa main Riders where they're nice and want to help people, but have more 'mature' and 'manly' air rather than the energetic youth type they're going since most of the Heisei Phase 2 MCs.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I'd still think that even for those fans who don't acknowledge the severe flaws of EX-Aid, they'd at least think the first half was higher quality, due to being the peak of their favorite God's arc.

I felt that dunno if something like 'Kamen Rider Chronicle hell' is really a severe flaw as it can seem subjective depending on the person.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Like how the infamous Job Competition arc was Ohmori's fault, but I guess some people forget that since they're too focused on hating on Takahashi. In that case, maybe I should rescind my complaint about Jit towards Takahashi, since it's possible that he honestly may have had no idea what to do with a sudden new character in the final arc, but had to make it work somehow.

I also mentioned in Gavv final episode discussion as well about how stuff like Lango thing likely felt like that due to the main director leaving the series. This'd be not really blaming anyone, more about how it seems that no one can replicate Sugihara rather than a jab to Morota, but just that things happen. I rather felt that Zitt is only created for Ryuji Sato's screentime Toei demands, otherwise they'd probably use Suel as active central antagonist.

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Originally Posted by StardustWhip

- I really enjoyed this episode! I don't think it gripped me in quite the same way that Geats or Zero-One did (to compare it to past Takahashi-written series), but it's still really exciting, both on a simple "new Rider season" level, and because the episode itself was just really well written.

How about Ex-Aid?

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Originally Posted by Frontier

I always thought of that as like Sento's dad in Build where they were kind of running out of story to tell but still needed to delay the story until they got to the final episode.

Dunno about Zero-One Competition stuff, but for opposite I felt Geats never ran out what stories it needs to tell, where despite its fast pace (albeit Takebe wants Sara's demise to be delayed), usual KR duration (49 episodes) isn't quite enough.