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So, we’ve got something unusual this episode. One playlist, but 1 1/2 compare and contrasts.

Ridewatch Playlist: Love or Drive, Which is it? Mix

“Fighting with the power of Shift Cars, the red car policeman Rider is… Drive”

I’m the rare man who doesn’t think Drive’s soundtrack has much in the way of standout songs. But that doesn’t mean I can’t make easy choices, like Surprise Drive

“Signal Bike! Shift Car! The two powers come together into Drive, Type Deadheat!

“The blue body gives Drive his fastest form, Drive Type Formula”

While there’s no song for this suit, it did get a fairly prominent role in the “History Alteration Machine” side-arc, so I went with the theme for the last part of that arc, Time, from D-Video Special: Kamen Rider Yongou

“Fuse with the super vehicle, Tridoron! The fastest, ultimate Drive, Type Tridoron”

And out of a desire to keep Spinning Wheel out of this (I’ve never cared for that song. Too much of a cacophony of voices to me), I went for Unlimited Drive

“The burning flaming bike Rider is Mach” (yes, that wording choice was deliberate)

And for him, I went with his insert song, Full Throttle

“The power of friends is passed on in this burning warrior, Chaser Mach”

“Awoken for justice, the human loving Rider is Chaser”

While this song isn’t particularly associated with him, the title kind of works. Don’t Lose Your Mind

And for Another Drive, we’re going with re-ray. No reason.

And for the last time, we present the list of the unreleased (it’s also the last time I’ll be doing the silly titles, but not the last time I’m doing this feature. I’ve got two more watches for the series, and three more for the post-show content)

Kamen Rider Drive (Type Wild)
Kamen Rider Drive (Type Technic)
Kamen Rider Drive (Type Fruits)
Kamen Rider Super Dead Heat Drive
Kamen Rider Drive (Type Special)
Kamen Rider Zero Drive
Kamen Rider Deadheat Mach
Kamen Rider Mach Chaser
Kamen Rider Protodrive
Kamen Rider Lupin
Kamen Rider 3
Kamen Rider 4
Kamen Rider Dark Drive (Type Next)
Kamen Rider Heart

As for the compare and contrast, Ora contrasts with both Shinnosuke and Kiriko. Shinnosuke was once a very passionate police officer who after injuring his partner during the "Global Freeze" incident, lost his passion and became more snarky and cynical after exiling himself to the Special Investigations Unit. Becoming Drive allowed him to regain his former personality while still keeping his snarkiness. Meanwhile, at first, Ora has been shown to have some standards before revealing it to be a lie, became more cold and heartless as the series went on to the point of being completely emotionless and relentless when she killed Yuko. In general, Shinnosuke is a police officer who tries to protect people, upholds justice, deeply cares about the people very close to him, and even still manages to be a warrior even without his Rider powers; Ora, however, is a Time Jacker who turns given people into Another Riders without any regard for the consequences of her actions, effectively making her a time criminal, and only cares about herself while feigning kindness to further her goals. And whereas Shinnosuke can use the Roidmudes’ Slowdown, but chooses not to, Ora as Another Drive has no hesitation in using Slowdown to pursue Heure. Meanwhile, Kiriko wanted to become Drive herself but failed to do so and therefore, chose to support Shinnosuke in any way she could and made sure he lived up to the ideals of a Kamen Rider. Kiriko eventually fell for Shinnosuke and married him as well. Ora, on the other hand, lets her Another Riders do whatever they wanted and while she did support them, she only supported them so long as they don’t disobey her in some way. Ora also doesn’t love anyone and uses the love of others to make them obedient to her.

And design-wise, in keeping with the Knight Rider elements present in Drive, Another Drive resembles the reboot version of KARR. Meanwhile, Another Decade is a hybrid of the first 9 Heisei monster groups (Grongi, Unknown, Mirror Monster, Orphnoch, Undead, Makamou, Worm, Imagin and Fangire), with his head modelled after Dai-Shocker’s logo.

As for some etymology, Tsukuyomi’s real name, Alpina, refers to Alpine watches, which are known for their high quality that will last much longer than other watches. Kind of like how she had stronger time powers than Schwartz.

Also, wow, is this the one time returning foes are actually stronger than the current Riders? Especially since both Sougo and Geiz have their final forms by now.