[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Yeah, I'm more than fine with having the sub-Riders rotate in and out of focus Kabuto style to keep the main trio in the spotlight. It's a simple and effective way to handle a huge cast of Riders, and that time away often just makes it that much more exciting when someone comes back from vacation. I'd rather Buster get like, 10 episodes of the show where he gets to be insanely cool and prominent than 40 where he mostly stands around silently in group shots and serves as filler in fight scenes.

I mean, more likely it'll be around 20~30 episodes where he's merely pretty cool and mostly holds his own in fight scenes, but you get my point. I'd rather have the Riders only be around when the writers really have something to do with them.

That's something I'm really hoping for too! I haven't really said much about Saber after catching up with it, because it's easily the most toypocalpyse season yet; and not only that, but Zero-One's belt issue has only gotten worse here, so it's been very difficult to get character moments early on that even Zero-One was really good at. But now that we've gotten past that early segment of Fukuda desperately having to pen something in for each new Book and Belt and character alongside actually trying to write his story, I'm excited for Saber to truly pick up as he's able to do with each character as he wants.

Like, with Ogami and Ren in particular; it felt like they were being introduced as main cast members especially with their New Toy status... but from the last few episodes it's clearly they actually act a lot more like recurring cast members; the extra SoL members that are often off doing other stuff. These last two episodes feel like the first time we've truly gotten our 'core' dynamic -- the three Swordriver users and Daishinji, and it's strong. Despite... everything to do with Slash, his being built up as a character and the way he hauls everyone out of danger gives off a great vibe of being the mentor to our main Riders, who are all still growing together. I think once we get to the meat of Rintarou and Kento's development this is going to start being a strong season.