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Originally Posted by SengalBoy

Huh that so? Well I just wonder why Toei didn't get him to represent Kuuga, althought that might trigger some. Then again Toei bought back Kiriya and redeemed him.

The issue is that it was pretty clear the writers themselves didn't like the idea. It probably came from a producer and was imposed on the staff. Sho Aikawa while he remained the main writer, although treating Onodera decently as a supporting character, never had him transforming into Kuuga after the Kiva World. Inoue and the writer of the Kabuto episodes outright disregarded him completely.

Kobayashi and Yonemura were willing to use him as Kuuga, but clearly weren't attempting to make up for how much the other writers ignored him, so even in their episodes he was just kind of "there". There wasn't a single one of Decade's writers who legitimately attempted to push him as the new Kuuga.