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Originally Posted by Mesnick

And how then to determine the secondary in the case of the same Blade and Hibiki?

Here's the important thing about Kamen Rider, whether people like it or not. It's all about toy sales, and as a result marketing. What's in the marketing will usually do it.

As much as Chalice is pivotal to Blade, it's clear the marketing in recent years has pushed to make it clear that Garren's the secondary Rider (Neo Diendriver/Geiz Majesty) of Blade.

Not to mention in some video games where a lot of times only the primary and secondary will be shown so Garren shows up in like stuff like Battride War over Chalice. The same can be said about Ibuki over Todoroki as Hibiki's secondary Rider rep in Battride Wra.

When it comes to the Secondary Rider, Toei/Bandai determines that via what they market to their audiences.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Yes, it seems to me that in all the last seasons, death, pseudo-death or something bad happened at about the same time. Hiromi, Kento, Jun... Sougo met Oma Zi-O and Build learned the identity of Bloud Stark. Whatever one may say, this is the end of the introductory stage of the show, after which the status quo should change and the stakes should rise.

Yeah but I'm more taking apart the phrase Christmas Death since the only one we really had was Kiriya.

Jin was a villain who was axed but could very easily come back. Kento's was nowhere near Christmas and it was clear that it was something other than death, and Hiromi well... that was way past Christmas and was so unceremonious everyone did not see it as a death.

Kiriya's definitely held a more permanent mark for a long while and there wasn't much hinting at him coming back in a permanent fashion until Kuroto managed to come back as a Bugster which was way later on.