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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Yeah, I am not a fan of Road Sector. I don't even know what the point of it was. Why did Toei feel the need to give Black a second bike?

Merchandizing. In the days before secondary Riders and alternate forms you needed something else to put on the toy shelves.

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Of course, I love Black, it is in my top 5 favorite Rider series of all time, but it definitely has some major misses to it. The biggest being Shadow Moon does not appear until the last 15 episodes of the series, and you never actually see him in human form outside of one or two quick shots.

Shadow Moon isn't supposed to transform - the whole point of turning Kotaro and Nobuhiko into Black Sun and Shadow Moon was that those bodies were meant to be their new bodies as the Century Kings. The fact that Nobuhiko never changes back indicates that he's embraced that destiny and turned away from his humanity, while Kotaro still holds onto his.