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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Well as we've demonstrated, given the collectibles for Zi-O had two Audience Voting P-Bandai sets, and Scissors got into one of them, yeah Scissors is stupidly popular and also just a meme given all the stuff I've seen of late.

That explains alot, thank you.

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I feel like I can also easily explain why Mysterious Fisherman would collab with Abyss to frame Natsumi only to offer her freedom. It was so she'd say yes, he wanted to make her desperate enough to where she'd say yes and go with him. For what? No clue. But that's the interpretation I got out of it once I realized "Oh, he was collabing, yeah that makes sense."

Thinking about it, that actually checks out. The show definitely could've been slightly more blatant about it, but I feel that does seem to be what they were aiming for.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

For someone who thinks Reiko straightening cutlery in the finale is the thematic high-point for Ryuki as a series, can I just say how thrilled I was to see a fork become a hugely important part of the first Ryuki episode in Decade? Surely accidental (unless someone on staff used a Time Vent to read my gushing about Ryuki last year), but it made me incredibly happy. I felt seen!

thats why reiko fixed the silverware.

she knew kitaoka would be accused of murder otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It all feels so random and completely disconnected from the show it's trying to homage. If it weren't for the suits and the presence of a Ren and a Shinji, there's little about this that says Ryuki.

This basically sums up my feelings on every arc so far, even as someone who hasn't seen Kiva in full yet.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I predicted Zatyme, Fish and Androzani for the last few arcs, but I wasn't expecting DreamSword to be so excited about Ryuki and have so much to say about it!

To be honest I was surprised I even got the Ryuki spot, considering how popular of a pick it seems to be on the boards. The spots I gunned for were Kuuga(which let's be real, everyone knew Fish would get), Hibiki(which I suspected Switchblade would get), and lastly Ryuki. Very happy I got it in the end!

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but people who care about each other a lot can also disagree and argue, similar to you guys actually!

me? care about that guy??

pheh! phsaw! tch! bleh! no way. not in a jillion years.

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Yuusuke is just a passenger in this world though, where Tsukasa is the one given a purpose as a lawyer that allows him to interact with the Mirror World. It makes sense that Decade, being Decade, can do that, but not some unrelated yet very helpful Rider like Kuuga. Yuusuke could definitely henshin more often than he does but I think his reason for staying out of the fight is justified here. Even though he didn't remember anything from this world, Tsukasa did and has a slightly higher opinion of him as a result of his moral support. Cause if anybody needs moral support, it's Tsukasa!

I would've accepted that as an explanation if there were a quick scene where Onodera goes to jump into the Mirror World and fails, but as it stands there's nothing saying that Kuuga couldn't jump in to join the battle.

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And I just happened to be eating a cake while rewatching that episode! Clearly it was meant to be. I didn't get framed for a murder though, so that's good.

Kogami Intensifies.

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Ryuki is 11/19 in my Heisei Rider Ranking. Even though it's behind Den-O due to just how humorous Den-O is, I think Ryuki has the best plot of any Rider show written by Kobayashi. Specifically, the plot I'm talking about is the escalating interactions between the participants of the Rider War. Not the actual plot which is the Kanzaki stuff, which is good in theory but flawed in execution. If that was done better, this show could easily be maybe 8-10/19 instead.

Can't speak for where I'd put Ryuki as a whole since I'm terrible at ranking things, but currently I put in third place for Phase 1 Heisei shows. We'll see if it stays that way whenever I finish Kiva and get around to seeing Kabuto and Den-O.

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He's also the first AU Secondary Rider to appear

But they had a stand-in for Ichijo in the Kuuga arc, bro.