[MKDremare]

i hope that revice is just nothing but dudes having bromances everywhere, because i am so tired of 'we need more female riders' being a criticism and then being upset when the female riders aren't even necessarily that important
/hyperbolic joke


On a more serious note, while I do love the seasons where there are a LOT of Riders, I do think that the more Riders there are, the more difficult it is to give all the Riders equal focus, and that when there's a female Rider who isn't a main character, that people just zoom in on that, even if there are plenty of male Riders who don't get focused on in the main series. And I'm specifying 'main series' since some Riders DO get lucky and get extra material focused on them, like Buster, but that extra material isn't always important, and/or is just something arguably for fun, like the Gridon vs. Bravo specials.

Like being sidelined in and of itself isn't really that much of an issue, I think. Happens to plenty of Riders who aren't the main two/three hero Riders or the main villain Rider(s). It's just that with female Riders, it's a lot more noticeable because people seem to really put a lot of expectations and sometimes unfound importance onto them, only to inevitably get disappointed when they're not nearly as important as they seemed because the focus is not on them. Like I'm not saying it's wrong to be disappointed if you are, it's just that I think people should ease up on expecting TOO much.

And it's not like being a Rider is the only thing that would make a female character important. In Zero-One, Izu is arguably the MOST important character besides Aruto and Fuwa on the protagonist side (excluding the movie where she DOES become a Rider, but that's long after the series ended). So I dislike the idea that the only way a female character can be important is if they fight.

EDIT: Gonna clarify that I DO like seeing more female Riders, it's always cool to see more of them, I just think that people shouldn't put so much expectations on them being 'super important' too much, because that can just lead to disappointment. Like I'm not a fan of Reika's character development after Ryoga's introduction (even if I do like his concept), but I always had a feeling that in the grand scheme of Saber's story that she wasn't nearly as important as some people thought she was, so it didn't necessarily bother me. And Ryoga's basically in the same boat.