[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Verde, Femme and Ryuga died on the way back to their home planet

It... this isn't something I'd put in the overview, since it references another series, but it's similar to how the amount of Zodiarts in Fourze wasn't paced super great. They gave themselves a hard number, plot-wise, in-show, and then they forgot how many episodes it would take to establish that number of characters onscreen. So you get, in Fourze, this rush of new lieutenants late in the run because there's only so many episodes left until the end of the series. You can almost feel the tension of the writing team to cram in some predetermined amount of characters.

Ryuki has a similar thing, where there's a middle section of real character-driven storytelling, an interest in doing more with the superb cast they've got, and then it's like Why Did You Keep Saying Thirteen If You Didn't Have Ideas For Thirteen.

Pacing out these season-long stories... it's got to be the hardest part of writing these shows. It's usually the most visible problem on less-good iterations.