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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Hoo boy. Thanks for the heads up on that. I'm not the kinda guy who automatically starts doomsaying at that sort of thing; Yamamura was still able to capture the essence of Kamen Rider Decade when he took over, afterall, but it is definitely a shame when a writer's' work gets ripped away from them regardless.

Oh yeah, I somehow forgot it happened in Decade as well. Hibiki's was the most infamous extreme case, while Blade and Decade changed the flavor a little but otherwise stayed pretty faithful to what those shows were about. Fortunately, I think Bima definitely fits with the latter example.

And to this day, I still don't even know where Imai Shoji went.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Wow, that's a big shame. Belinda was just starting to come into her own as a character and a part of the cast. I guess the new guy just couldn't think of anything to do with her?

Her involvement with the ZU formula through her father was some genuinely intriguing new information about the character, after previously being a device for the Ray and Rena plot. I would've liked to see how Hayase planned to keep exploring Belinda as her own character, but it seems like Nakazawa for some reason wasn't at all interested in the cool biker girl.