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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

Very curious to see the explanation of that hot take. Like Sakura and Hana were practically the main characters of the show for a while, and Mrs Igarashi was the first time a mom and the topic of motherhood played a major role all throughout the season since like Kuuga.

More focus =/= better, though. The content is important. I would rather a character have one good scene than ten bad scenes. For example, I thought Sakura was pretentious with her claims of invincibility while running away from spooky basements and I found her "solution" to Aguilera's problem offensive.

Yukimi was good, for sure. She was the one holding the Igarashis together. However, the producer apparently had to veto Kinoshita's plan to kill her while she was in hospital, so I don't think Kinoshita should get credit here. Regarding motherhood, I'd say this was a big deal in Kiva, with Maya being an important character in both 1986 and 2008 sides.

Akemi was the worst case, that I imagine most people will agree with. She was introduced as a cool character who can fight, but then she got turned in to an obedient Gif Devil and killed just so Daiji could yell, "Look what you guys made Gif do!" Her plan to get Gif's cells failed and she died having accomplished nothing.

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

Sure Geats has plenty of female Riders, but literally never more than two at a time. Sae aside, I think they've all been written pretty poorly. Letter/Retta's wish being to lose weight and marry a cute guy

Letter's desire was superficial, but so was her will to fight for it. Seems like a deliberate example of how weak-willed Riders are the first to fall. She just happened to be a girl.

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

Lopo getting written off after five episodes and never coming back while annoying one-note character Nadge-Sparrow comes back as a main cast member just a couple episodes after being eliminated just to stand in the background and sneer occasionally.

The good news is that Sae looks like she'll be returning in the movie!

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

Neon not even getting to deliver her own Reason To Fight Speach after her dramatic backstory reveal, it instead being given by her Stalker with a crush who justifies mocking and insulting her with having been anxious.

I don't think Kyuun's speech justifies his previous behavior. Rather, it acknowledges that his behavior was bad and shows that he's making a sincere attempt to improve for Neon's sake. The future Na-Go fans had turned their backs on Neon for being "fake", so she needed somebody to show support and remind her that she wasn't alone, regardless of the fact that it was Kyuun. Her BeatBoost debut was pretty great as well!

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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

And Tsumuri being a combination of Poppy and Izu, although that's more of a personal opinion on Takahashi's writing feeling repetitive

Yeah, I guess. I'm curious to see how she'll develop though.

I'd also like to mention that some of the female character problems in Takahashi's previous shows might be due to the producer, Ohmori, who notoriously said something to the effect of "Kyoryuger didn't have a yellow ranger since yellow is girly and girls are weak", before making a male yellow Primary Rider six years later.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Having not seen Saber yet, I actually didn't even know that. Funny coincidence.

It's one of my favorite Rider shows. I would strongly recommend it for sure!