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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Personally for me, Takahashi is probably the second one after Inoue who messes up with the finals. Zero-One's ending is Aruto's incredible OOC for the sake of drama, and the memories of the ending of Ex-Aid (both in the show and in the movies) were forgotten within a month. On the other hand, before that, his shows have time to give a lot of spectacular and emotional moments, so I believe that the best part of Geats is yet to come.

Zero One's final arc was heavily improvised due to you-know-what pressuring the staff to quickly finish the original story, resulting in them running out of content after Episode 41. There's also the case of the dreaded Work Competition arc, which was demanded by Ohmori against Takahashi's will. I suspect the same is true of the Kamen Rider Chronicle arc in EX-Aid, which occurred around the same time of year. I think Ohmori is too restrictive of a producer, like Utsunomiya for Sentai. Of course, Takahashi has his own flaws as well, but there are circumstances beyond his control that ultimately hold back his visions. Fortunately, Takebe has a reputation for allowing her writers more freedom.

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

I'm at work, so I cant write down all my thoughts on the ep.

Damn, you're back to work already?! I don't envy you.

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

On this though, I dont think the dgp creates the buckles. I think they are hatched kind of the opposite of how the jamato are plants. I think Michinaga surviving by it was unexpected. I doubt most players get 3+ chances in the DGP, so no one knew this would happen.

Oh yeah, I remember how the Drill, Propeller and Monster Raise Buckles were born from eggs. But are the Raise Buckles and Jyamato exclusively products of nature, or bio-engineered, bred by humans to form a symbiotic relationship with them? Plants reproduce asexually, but what about the Raise Buckles, where do those eggs come from? So many things we still don't know. Maybe Michinaga is alive cause the Zombie Raise Buckle simply won't let him die until he fulfills his desire.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Don't you think that Michinaga would inevitably return though, as both one of the main Riders and Takahashi's "formula"? When he's killed, I thought it'd be expected that his "zombie" traits should come to play to bring him back. Though I guess you exclusively refer to Zombie Raise Buckle here, as other speculations talk about him returning as Jamato (including pulling a Tsurugi of his ego overcoming the Jamato's, or keeping his willpower like Lord Baron) or from Keiwa's wish when winning, which'd be how the unexpected happen here for Zombie Buckle affecting him.

Well he didn't receive the flowers, so yeah, I figured he'd be back at some point, either through Jyama-fication or Keiwa's desire. I wasn't expecting him to return in the episode immediately following his apparent death though, the timing of that was what surprised me, as well as attributing it to a formerly unknown trait of the Zombie Raise Buckle. Now I'm curious about Win as well, since he got his head blown up and wasn't a victim of Jyamato.