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Originally Posted by Sentai

Gaim has problems. I enjoyed Gaim, let me say that first off. It's enjoyable. But then it became all Gods and Monsters and everyone had these extreme super-powers to stop missiles and travel through time and ... Gaim became Kabuto but without Riders existing solely to give Gaim weapons and no other reason. No, wait, there was that to. Oh and one point the entire series becomes trying to capture the girl as a trophy before and after the mad scientist kills her because plot! ... Despite this I did enjoy it. I promise I did.

You did? Because I don't like Gaim and I think that post sounded overly negative. Gaim's side Riders all have like, arcs, and stuff. Not always well executed ones, but everyone except Marika has something to do for the whole show.

The only one in Kabuto who feels like they have any reason to be in the show past their first couple episodes is Sasword, and he dies with about 10 episodes left in the show. At least when Kouta uses other Riders' weapons, he isn't literally stealing them right out of their hands with a big sword he just magically willed into existence with no explanation in one episode.

Side-note: Poor Marika. Even putting aside the implied sexism of having the sole female Rider in your show spend most of her time licking the ground other characters walk on, she just feels like such a waste of a character.

I kind of feel like, even if the plot requires her to not be around for the final episodes, they could've done that in a way that doesn't involve her dying pointlessly. If they had her maybe grow over the course of the last couple episodes, they could've had her maybe stand up to Kaito with everyone else, and maybe while they're at it have Kaito kill her himself to make it clear how far he's gone, or something. Anything.

At the very least, they could've had her be just injured from the fall she takes, which A, makes more sense than her somehow dying from what shouldn't be that dangerous an explosion while transformed, and B, allows her to stay out of the action while also allowing her to survive. I would not have minded seeing her with the other side characters in the epilogue episode.