[Battlizer]

Ryuki 22-24

Aw man, Tezuka's gone. Just as they got to his backstory. I liked they way they covered how he has an understanding of how some Riders in these battles might have good reasons for participating and why he wants the Riders to stop trying to kill each other through his friend Yuuichi, who could've become a Rider to cure his injury but instead chose to to fight since he didn't want to become a murderer.

I can't say his death wasn't sorta fitting in a way though to his arc. He changed the fate by sacrificing himself to save Shinji, who he believed would be the one who could change the fate of the Riders. So yeah fitting, but he could've lasted a bit longer.

Those survive cards are pretty awesome. Even gives the mirror monsters an upgrade. I don't understand Ren's insistence to continue to act like a disaffected prick, when he's essentially a good guy, but alright...

We get a bit of Asakura's past. It's tragic and makes it sort of understandable of how he fell off the ddep ed, but...still don't feel particularly bad for the dude. He goes around killing people because they "vex" him.

Shinji thinks he can change him though, with the news of Asakura's brother still being alive. Good thing something gave him the push he needed to try and stop the rider war since Tezuka's sacrifice for him affected him pretty bad.

He plans on changing Kitaoka too, and at first I thought he might be abit easier to convince to stop the fighting tha Asakura, but eh...the dude's super self centered. Goro being kidnapped did gnaw on his conscience and he did finally give in and decide to save Goro, though, even if it was too late so who knows?

And uh...oh Kanzaki just stopped the Rider War. Um...alright? I guess he can do that. How powerful is he anyway? I mean I suppose he could appear and disappear at will, but can't the Riders jsut...I dunno, just distract him by making him talk to Yui, then jump in the mirror world to beat the shit out of him?