[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I was talking about the Rider powers not evolving meaningfully, not the characters themselves. I actually like the characters a lot, especially Banjou. Seeing him fight unmorphed for so long before finally getting his powers was a really nice touch that I've wanted from Rider forever. I feel like as a franchise the show doesn't do enough to convince us the person in the suit is the same person as the one out of it. My issue with Banjou is that his girlfriend dying wasn't very well handled, outside of specific scenes you'd never even know that was his driving force as a character.

Everything you've listed there can be found in multiple other Rider series, though.While it may be true that it hasn't appeared in the last few series Drive/Ghost/Ex-Aid (I haven't watched any of these), all of the stuff featured in Build appears verbatim in various series before it.

Also that Rain scene was one of my favourite in the whole show exactly because it finally shut the Driver up.

You didn't clarify on 'evolution' well enough then
Ryuga's inability to let go of his girlfriend's death is why the Cross-Z Dragon didn't work, and everything's been for her, his paid off matches were all for HER sake, when he thinks Stalk is Katsuragi, he lashes out at Stalk in anger, he can't think well due to it being a sensitive topic to him before getting the note from Sento

Literally which other recent toku shows have people getting shot by realistic weapons, governments making their regions bleak and miserable for warfare and some form on social commentary about politics?

That's honestly shallow of you if that's all you can appreciate about the scene, the only noise being rain, the shots of our hero and a traitor just staring, etc., the way it's shot works well in any other super hero thing