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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

That's not really a trait that's carried on into other Rider series (outside of Gaim). Modern Rider series follow the mold of "We fight at first, realize it was all a big misunderstanding and then team up in the end", which is moreso a trait from Agito.

There's a big difference between how Agito does it and how Ryuki-Decade did it. It's only more similar to Agito on the surface. The morality of the Riders in Ryuki isn't the important part. I can't stress that enough.

In Agito there's a fundamental disconnect between the Riders and their alter-egos that, outside of Kiva and Ixa, simply isn't there in the other shows. That disconnect is the root of everybody's problems and once they figure the truth out they quickly patch things up.

Consider Tachibana's whole "traitor" phase early on in Blade, for example. Him and Kenzaki actually DO talk to one another a bunch and while misunderstandings are still at the heart of their conflict, there's more to it than just "Agito may be one of the monsters!/killed my girlfriend!" and the way it plays out ends up being very different. Their problems are with each other.

It's not exactly like Ryuki either but it owes way more to that show than it does to Agito. Ryuki really cemented the kind of melodrama that drove the next half-decade or so of Kamen Rider, even if the seeds were planted in Agito.