[Kurona]

Recently I’ve been thinking about how Ark-Zero is, I feel, a great villain but completely in the wrong show. I think he gets across the idea of a cold calculating machine filled with malice and being the very embodiment of fear extremely well but I don’t personally feel it’s a good fit for what Zero-One was about and it’s why I can’t get into the post-clip show portion of the series at all.

Regardless though, my point is that... I feel he’s in the wrong show, right? ... how incredible would it have been if we had something like him in the last third of Ghost? A big problem a lot of people have that I see echoed sround a lot is that while it’s clear what the Ganmaizers are going for and they generally work out thematically, they are just very boring and unmemorable. So what if you replaced them with something like Ark-Zero that embodies everything they’re about but also gets across their sheer terror effortlessly? I think if you removed his being a Kamen Rider too (as Ghost is not the kind of series that benefits from having the villains be riders), but just had him subtly look like a screwed up version of Ghost; that would seriously up the ante. Whether he’s possessing Alain’s brother himself or a separate Ganmaizer stand in I think this sort of thing would have worked so well!