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And that’s a wrap on Masked Rider Ryuki! I’ve watched the show, and I’ve opened my Figuarts Ryuki to celebrate.

OK, as you've finished, now I have posted the essay I've been talking about previously in a separate thread. Though I also want to post this one here, an explanation of Ryuki, but on the review that is not about Ryuki, so gotta screenshot it and just post the Ryuki part of this page (consider this as a preview before checking out blog, the actual KR thoughts has much, much more than this, mainly Ryuki and OOO, I'd say the most complete I've ever seen on the internet, much better than wiki, IMO).

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Oh, I dug it! Her Contract Monster becomes a fan, forcing enemies into her blades? I thought it was neat.

Oh, I just feel that the sword slash attack ain't any different from the regular sword slash, making it seems not any deadlier than usual attack, it's just like slashing a jumping enemy once. Tiger's Final Vent is also about the Contract Monster forcing the enemy into Tiger's claw, but at least it gives extra pain by being wiped off across the ground.

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Oh, and the movie tries to make Shinji culpable, with his staying inside being the reason a lonely Yui plays in Mirror World, but it's an absurd moment in the film. That... it's not something that even the most empathetic Rider could feel guilt over. He was a kid! It was raining! He didn't murder Yui by staying in!

So to sum up you want for her to actually cause a doom and try to atone for it? Probably just the difference of stances (and I have to admit I'm likely pettier in this case). I think I prioritize morality over storytelling for this case. I want Yui to be just as empathetic as Shinji like you said here, where like him, feeling guilt over things like this, so I'd like for her having no actual mistake like Shinji here (unlike in movie). And like Shinji again, I want her decisions being selfess; based off on others and not out of personal (unlike in movie); like Shinji deciding to become a Rider after seeing a girl losing her mother.

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But Miho's sister wasn't dead, she was just on ice. She was in cold storage until medicine advanced enough to find a cure for, uh... being stabbed with a broken bottle?

Wew... this is new. Other sources I read has it saying Miho's sister being dead.

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And, man, the Mirror World story is total nonsense. It’s hard to care about any action’s consequences when Shiro could introduce a new stipulation, or change a rule, whenever he felt like it. It’s hard to invest in a contest when the rules are arbitrary. We’re constantly told that there need to be thirteen Riders, but we never see all thirteen on the show. We’re told that there needs to be one Rider left at the end to fight Odin, but Asakura dies after Knight is declared the final fighter. There’s no time limit, then suddenly there’s a time limit. Shiro’s actions could come off as whimsical or mysterious, but it mostly felt to me like the function of plot. He wasn’t a character, he was how the producers interfered in the characters lives.

Gotta talk about the others later, but again, want to explain this one first. It either comes to these 2.

• First, the rules don't state that all 13 Riders have to be active at the same time or unique, for the main series, there were 10 Riders appeared, but it's brought up to 13 by 2 more Odins, and a second Zolda (Goro). In the movie continuities, the presence of Verde (13 Riders) and Ryuga and Femme (Episode Final) indicates that 2 of the repeat Riders mentioned above never became Riders (Goro never became Zolda in either movie, and Odin either stayed dead after his second death (Episode Final) or didn't die a second time (13 Riders)).
• Second, there's a theory where people with the scribbled eyes in the opening are the extra Riders which presumably have been taken out off-screen.
  

It's just Shiro's choice to fight only 1 Rider left as Odin, but with Shinji delaying the Rider War to its near deadline, Shiro is forced to change his plans to prematurely fight other Riders as Odin to make sure that all other Riders die before Yui's birthday to gain his wish. Shiro obviously won't reveal about his motives, or especially cheating the game for himself. The time limit is related to those 2, so Shiro won't tell either, until Shinji forced him to. I think you got mistaken here, wasn't the scene of Asakura being shot happened before Knight becomes final Rider (and Odin self-destructing)? Asakura's death scene actually cuts to Odin slashing Knight Survive.