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So basically, this episode is saying that Over Quartzer is Schwartz’s fault. Because Heisei wouldn’t be a mess if he hadn’t tried to combine 19 worlds into one. Pretty much a metaphor for fans who try to group all of Heisei into one universe (An idea that’s always had problems, especially since none of the shows at all attempt any consistency with each other (Kabuto’s whole premise is that a place we’ve been visiting regularly since 2000 got nuked to hell in 1999. And that’s not getting into how Drive starts having characters arrive from America in the crossover with Gaim… which means that they should be coming and going from a radioactive wasteland). Plus very few of the crossovers are actually necessary to the stories of their series (Megamax and HeiGen Final being the only exceptions I can think of), which is especially apparent in how Heisei Generations drops a big reveal casually, has Emu forget it and the the series makes it a far bigger deal of the same reveal later on.

Though I will say, I prefer Schwartz as a villain to most of the post-Gaim villains, (save Ghost’s), in that he has a plan that seems logical given his background (I still do not get why the CEO of a game company wanted to conquer the world) and an actual reason behind his plan (which far too many of those shows relied on to V-Cinemas for).

And now, for two final Compare and Contrasts. For the series that is, there’s still a whole set 5 worth for me to do (covering ReiwaGen and Next Time: Geiz)

Schwartz’s ultimate plan is basically a deliberate version of Decade’s main premise. Whereas Tsukasa was unconsciously merging the worlds together, and was working to restore them by fighting the Riders so that they’d exist forever in people’s memories, Schwartz is deliberately destroying those worlds, and the Riders native to them, purely to save his own, for his own selfish reasons (since if he doesn’t have a world, he has nothing to rule over).

Kaito as Zi-O II… erm, II is the opposite to Sougo in that he steals stuff from random Riders purely to say he owns it, whereas Sougo gets the Riders to give him their powers through personality alone.

Also, I can’t really fault this episode, it’s got Zanbat and the Formula Cannon in it.

Only 2 pages left until the end of the world.