[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Yes, and don't forget also that Old Rider was about people standing up to giant organizations led by a singular voice seeking domination over the entirety of humanity. Like, literally in some of those cases the new organizations turned out to be led by the same one voice as the previous ones.

I guess this is aimed equally at both people who think the Showa Era is some wildly different thing as well as people who think modern shows have lost their identity: there's a lot more connective tissue left than might be apparent. The ways these concepts are expressed have changed a lot, for sure, but a lot of the ideas themselves have gone largely unaltered, even into shows as recent as Zero-One.

I should clarify that like... I'm saying 'modern rider' as opposed to Rider in general not because I think Showa Rider doesn't have those aspects, but because the only one I've seen is Amazon. And I guess Shin, ZO and J but obviously that's fitting into a completely different timescale.

I can't effectively comment on Showa! I can only go by hearsay, and I fully believe what you're saying; but without my own impression I don't feel confident in speaking for them.