[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by Black Fang

The issue is that a show like Kamen Rider, by its nature, requires a specific tone and specific elements. You can go up and down the scale of how much you want to have, but you can't go too far into the light, wacky nonsense side just because "it's a kids' show" and that's as far as you want to think about it.

Fourze's lighter tone ended up hurting it because of the story it was telling: you can't have a setting where an alien-worshiping cult is running a school seeking out recruits and treat it happy-go-lucky. (I like Fourze for the most part, by the way, but I do think it underachieved.) You can't have a Liveman-esque "Friends, why have you sold your souls to the devil?" setup (where the heroes' fellow classmates are becoming Horoscopes) and not do more with it. Yuki vs Aquarius, JK vs Capricorn, Pisces as a rogue, Ares, Taurus, all could've gone places if they hadn't rushed through the Horoscopes to get to the ending, and used these characters for longer arcs.

This whole "be light in the face of real-life bad stuff" is the argument for Ohranger's schizophrenia. I think that was a missed opportunity also: a "hope over adversity" message with maybe some tweaking of the original story (but not to the extent that they did) could've worked and been much more meaningful.

Den-O is the single most popular and most successful Kamen Rider series since the Heisei Era began. And is also the most light-hearted. It's your opinion that 'you can't be too light-hearted' as it is mine that 'you can't go too dark'. There are people that disagree with us both.

Like, I can see where you're coming from...I just fundamentally don't agree. I think Build is one of the best Rider series they've done...but so is Den-O.

Also, re: Ohranger...it was changed because people were breaking into houses and stabbing people as part of a cult movement. No terrified child should have to watch their favourite show on a Sunday morning, wanting just a moment of peace...only to be scared by that, too, just to please adults. I agree that Ohranger...is a disaster as a result...but it was still the best thing to do for the target audience.