[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Miho is still possibly my favorite female Rider. It's a real toss-up between her and Marika. that's about 50% the strength of the character and 50% the small pool of competitors.

Miho's great! I'm a sucker for con-artists who reform, I love those stories, so she's got a huge lead on everyone else.

I haven't watched enough shows to see other female Riders, so I can't speak to Valkyrie, and I didn't fully understand the context of Kiva-la in the Decade/Double movie.

Marika... I just really didn't like how so much of her character became about assisting the rise of powerful men. Her and Mai, their stories got real tricky for me in the end because of stuff like that.

I think my favorite female Rider's got to be Genius Gamer N herself, Ride-Player Nico. She's fantastic, as long as you can discount her brief dalliance with Denim Harry Potter. It's her few flaws that make her so heroic.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Anyway, now that you've gotten through everything, time to discuss the Great Unifying Ryuki Fan Theory. It's been a reasonably popular piece of fanon over the years that Episode Final and 13 Riders are in continuity with the TV show as two (or 2.5, counting the alternate ending of 13 Riders) of Shiro's previous failed attempts to save Yui that got Time Vented. The series itself is the latest attempt and Shiro's acceptance of Yui's death at the end means that the final time reset was, indeed, the final reset.

That's a neat theory! I'd have a hard time putting the movie as anything other the final round, though, since Shiro seems to pretty definitively die in the movie. He's a narrator for 13 Riders, and he opts out of the story in the TV show.

I mean, I don't have a need in my brain to get them to line up, I'm okay looking at them as three separate stories starring the same actors, but it's cool if other people need to chart it out. Fandoms are awesome!