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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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Why isn’t Kaixa in the credits yet? He’s been in this show for, like, more than 15 episodes. They put all of Team Orphnoch in the credits before they even all had debuted, and nothing for Kaixa in what would’ve been four months? Crazy!

In fact, they’ve added nothing to the credits. No Faiz Accel, no Lucky Clover, nothing. Weird! I wonder why?

Faiz's credits never get a Kuuga or Agito-style reworking. If you look closely, though, you'll see that each episode's opening includes a few clips from that specific episode in some of the background shots.

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THAT ENDING!

I’d gotten so used to Takumi and Yuuji just missing the chance to learn each other’s secrets that, uh, I sort-of forgot they actually could learn them! And holy shit they just did!

For a show that’s had a crazy amount of good cliffhangers, this one has to be in the top 3. (I can’t rank them, but this was a really good one.) This episode had given us both a very sweet Takkiba scene (Yuuji asks if he wants to talk about what’s bothering him!), as well as another brutal Faiz/Horsepower fight. We’d seen the bond of their friendship, and the depths of their hatred. That’s precisely the moment you want to expose their secrets.

Oh, also, Delta shoots a billion missiles at them from the most Delta ride machine.

I've been thinking about mentioning this for awhile now. I love how this show does cliffhangers. For all his faults, Inoue had a great sense on when to end an episode with this series. I've seen the entire series before and I know where every character's story ends, but I've still gotten to the end of multiple episodes with no idea of how the hell Takumi and/or Yuuji and/or Kusaka are going to get out of things this time. The show has such a knack for ending on obvious no-win situations that make you want to start up the next episode right away to find out who's going to get knocked into a fight-ending body of water.