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I honestly don't have much to say about this other than... I really enjoyed that Aruto spared Horobi, which is something that the show crew was talking about prior to the episode as "Something never before done in Rider" and that is true I feel. It's been a while since I've seen a lot of series but I feel like Horobi's the first final opponent that's been spared?

Overall a pretty cool fight, not my favorite, but I love how it mostly just devolves into two grief filled people trying to sort out their feelings and I love that? Also I know a lot of people don't like Realizing Hopper but I dig it for a few reasons, none too important but I dig it.

Fun Fact: The Thouser Squad has names, Milly, Billy, Tri, and Quad.

Also one thing that I absolutely hated about talk surrounding this episode was how "I can't believe they pulled a Decade!" and like. I don't know... I don't feel like it's even on that level? Like Toei can't do that again, they've gone on record saying that they got hounded by people for doing a stunt like that. The main story that wanted to be told was finished this episode, Azu is basically just our person who'll allow further spin-offs. Like how our Mr. Paradise guy is just a tease that there's still more to come for this series that got cut short due to outside complications. More specifically a certain summer movie that had to get delayed and released in the Winter.