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Originally Posted by kamen rider bara

So, chances for things like Kabuto armor are slim or not?

We're only on ep 11 now. It's rare for Riders or Sentai to do toy only things, but not unheard of, and there is some stuff that'll be game only stuff. Which is which, we honestly won't know until the show and movies have ran their course.

But with the rich material Kabuto offers with Worms and Sasword as well as Drake or the hoppers, you'd think that wold be one they'd try to find a way to cover in how it contrasts to narratives about how monsters are sometimes heroic, which was a theme in Kiva too. So I could see them doing it as one of the doubled up ones like Faiz/Fourze was, only with Kiva/Kabuto. Since they have some overlapping themes and gags too, that also plays well to Chalice from Blade too. No clue, but it'd be cool to see. Depends how it fits the narrative they want to tell and the themes they feel they need to explore to convey the overall morals of this kind of story. At times, it's really felt like they've been foreshadowing wanting to dive into those topics though that Blade/Kabuto/Kiva were heavy with in that regard. The wizard episode almost felt like a tease to it in the future, as did the Ex-aid episode.

Personally, I think those 3 shows fit the 'perceptions' angle a lot of Zi-O covers throughout about jumping to conclusions, and other sub topics of what it means to look out for others. So it's really possible, but no clue if they are going to or when. For all we know, Decade could be a pre-cursor to all of that because of Kivaara.

Speaking of Kabuto though, that does make me wonder what would happen to the timeline if a Worm duplicate was turned into "Another Rider". With how the Another Rider watch erases a Rider and their monsters, but also allow them control of the monsters as their army, but yet the worm is the monster of its series. What would happen because of the paradoxical nature of that? Same to some of the monster breeds from Kiva that may want that "another rider" power because of how Fangires made most of their races extinct(which was part of the Ixa storyline originally too). Or for that matter how it could impact Blade with the Joker cards, or Spirit card or what Blade turned himself into at the end. Definitely a lot of rich material to dive into with those, and figuring out how.