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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER DIE: Along with Armed Hibiki, who... I mean, shouldn't they have used Blade's Final Form, instead?

Destroying giant monsters is the Oni's specialty!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER DIE:Until then, let's meet some color-coded ninjas as we continue our Journey through Decade!

Uh, while I admit Shinkenger would be at least 22% cooler with ninjas, those kanji-faced colorful guys are actually samurai, the Samurai Sentai in fact, and have nothing to do with the katakana and hiragana-faced guys you'll probably be meeting next year. If you want a ninja Sentai, or rather the Ninja Sentai, go check out Kakuranger!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

All that is to say that I had never seen any of the Riders in this. Ever. And so I thought they were completely original Riders made up for Decade.

Ditto. It's only thanks to the wiki that I found out these guys were from a movie. This was my second recognition failure after mistaking Diend for being from Kamen Rider Faiz. Hell, I didn't even know this world was anything to do with Blade. Decade is good at giving spoiler-light introductions to past shows, but not so good at emphasizing the connections between those shows (or a movie in this case) and their corresponding non-Primary Riders.

I suppose this is the best opportunity I'm going to get to complain about the suit designs for Glaive, Larc and Lance. Two of them are literally just inverted repaints of each other and they all have that one eye which doesn't show any expression. Made it very hard to associate any kind of identity with them and I repeatedly forgot who was who and eventually stopped caring.

Probably didn't help that this is also my least favorite arc of the show. Not a bad arc, just meh, due to how much time it spends on Kaito's backstory despite that being pretty much forgotten and never brought up ever again. What was even the point of this arc? If that was Kaito's goal in this world, why was he wasting time collecting miscellaneous merchandise from other worlds? The problem here seems completely unrelated to his entire thing.

However, I can say one good thing about this arc and that was the awesome use of Kiva Emperor's Zanvat Slash by Decade Complete in the climax of Episode 22!

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

It's the most dreaded and despicable Rider of them all: Kamen Rider Dange!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

My personal artwork for Complete Form's finisher (that I wanted, ofc others can disagree for various reasons too):

Very bad*ss!