[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by Black Fang

The fact that such a "community" is even given a semblance of legitimacy is a problem in and of itself.

Wow, I respect you even less now. Congratulations!

You must also remember that, as I said, Kamen Rider can't be too dark. Toei was hit with a huge backlash on Twitter after Kamen Rider Lazer was brutally killed on Christmas Day, after his toys had just come out. You had a whole nation of kids who may have just received a toy of their favourite character for Christmas...they excitedly watch to see what he does this week...and he dies.

Kamen Rider usually does death very well (Aoba from Build in particular)...but killing off the most developed member of the cast, just after his toys came out and on Christmas Day...is a justifiable cause for kids to be upset. The whole controversy is probably why he was revived, honestly.

The 'problem' isn't that Toei is pandering to its target audience, but that people like you mistakenly think that Toei should instead stay true to some arbitrary standards of some random guy on the internet. Shin Kamen Rider and Amazons are outliers by design - they aren't, and thankfully, never will be. The 'some fans' here refers to you. Amazons is based on Amazon, too, after all... And Amazon is the friendliest Kamen Rider save for, maybe, Gentaro. That was in the eighties, man. Kamen Rider hasn't changed...you're just clinging to the few times it has been as edgy as you want.