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So fun fact, the real girlfriend Sougo runs into at the end (who can be distinguished by the fact she calls him “kawaii boy”, while Yuko calls him “kawaii otoko”) is played by Yuri’s actress, Yu Takahashi. Though Sougo’s just as out of luck with her, since not only was the actress married, but she became pregnant the month after this episode aired.

Now then, let’s get on with…

Ridewatch Playlist: Everyone, Did You Know? Mix

And I’ll mention that this is what inspired me to do this thread. I saw someone create a playlist for this video in its comments and decided “What if I did that for all of these videos”. Which is why it’s the second and final time the theme song doesn’t appear (though aside from that, I have suggested some alternate songs in some places, while preserving the original list)

“Wake Up! Power of the vampire, the vampire Rider is… Kiva.”

And the song they went with was Destiny’s Play

“The limit has been broken on the hidden power. Clad in the armour of the emperor, Kiva Emperor Form”

The person who made this list went for Supernova

Whereas I went with This Love Never Ends (Emperor edit)

“Clad in the armour of darkness, the king of Fangires is… Dark Kiva”

The original list maker went with Exterminate Time to indicate that it’s King

While I went with Roots of the King (acoustic edit) to indicate that it’s Taiga (the description doesn’t really allow for Otoya)

“Please return that life to God! The white, powered suit Rider is IXA”

And they went with the most appropriate IXA song, considering who that description indicates is the main IXA, Individual System Keisuke Nago ver. Fight for Justice

And for Another Kiva, they chose to go with Maya’s cover of Rainy Rose, Rainy Rose (Queen Edit)

And here we are with the list of the unreleased, with the final of the 10 winners (the other 9 being Cross-Z Charge, Genm Zombie Gamer, Poppy, Cronus, Faiz Blaster, Eternal, Ouja, Scissors and Chalice) being Dark Kiva. I’ll still be posting lists like this for the remaining 4 series, though more as a bonus than anything.

Kamen Rider Kiva (Garulu Form)
Kamen Rider Kiva (Basshaa Form)
Kamen Rider Kiva (Dogga Form)
Kamen Rider Kiva (DoGaBaKi Form)
Kamen Rider Ixa (Save Mode)
Kamen Rider Rising Ixa
Kamen Rider Saga
Kamen Rider Rey
Kamen Rider Arc
Kamen Rider Legend Arc

And now for the compare and contrast, with Yuko being an impressive specimen, as she is the opposite to practically everyone in Kiva’s cast.

Wataru: Wataru shut himself away from the world at first because he believed he was allergic to it, and later because he believed he’d do nothing but hurt the people he loved. And when he chose to become King, it was only because there was no other way to ensure peace between humans and Fangire. Yuko was locked away by the police for being dangerously unstable (and as her arrest document shows, not disposing of the corpse), while she wanted to become Queen purely for her own benefit.
Otoya: Otoya was a great man, who was respected by his peers, even if they didn’t like him. Yuko is a delusional madwoman shunned, even by those who wanted to help her.
Yuri: When Otoya broke up with Yuri for Maya, she took it well and only tried to murder her rival when she turned out to be the Fangire Queen (and even then, she relented). When Yuko got dumped by her boyfriend for a new woman, she reacted by beating his new flame to death and tried again with his fiance years later.
Nago: Nago was a man caught up in his own delusions, much like Yuko, with the key difference being that he was changed by the people around him and brought back to reality.
Mio: Both were given the power of a Queen, but Mio struggled with using it for her people’s benefit, whereas Yuko has zero hesitation in using it to exact revenge. Even their deaths play out similarly (they both get murdered by one fo the villains at a wedding and die in the protagonist’s arms), though unlike Mio, Yuko isn’t the woman Sougo fell in love with.

And as for the design, Another Kiva is essentially a female version of the Bat Fangire, who has the ability to call upon copies of Bashaa and Dogga from within her.

And I’ll close off by pointing out that this episode is a prime example of how context can get distorted across different subs. First up is Rider-Time.



And next is Over-Time


And finally, Tv-Nihon.