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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

Speaking of Mari, what's with Kamen Rider and the side character female chick that's an ambiguous love interest in every series but is somehow extremely important to the protagonist and/or the plot?


The only show that I watched where this wasn't the case was Kabuto and well....let's just say that if they did that it would've been really awkward.

It's a staple of the franchise, dating all the way back to Hongo and Ruriko (who sadly disappeared) after Fujioka's accident. Some of the characters were just their for eye candy (most of Hayato and Hiroshi's harems), but some were really cool characters, like Junko from V3 or Tackle.

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderRevenge

Thing is, did she even do anything? Even Mari did something, even if it did result in Takumi losing his last shreds of humanity.

Hiyori was the core driving focus for Tendou because spoilers. It would have worked better if the actress hadn't gotten really sick and had to miss pretty much the last 25% of the show (still had more screen time than Koyomi, though).