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I'm fairly confident that they got Inoue to do this second phase because Faiz was (I think) the most critically successful season of Rider by a large margin and they probably just said to him "Please just do what you did there".

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Originally Posted by catwhowalks

One think I didn't see anyone mentioning is that the last episode was constantly be redone and re-written, my understanding is that they were still changing their minds on it while they were writing it. They even had an Oni suit for Asumu made, which they then ripped apart and stuck bits of it to Kiriya's suit instead.

All of that was mentioned actually, two pages ago, courtesy of Switchblade.

Funny (also sad) to think what kind of ideas were floating around yet they settled for 'extended epilogue where the bad guys try to perform an evil experiment on hitomi'.