[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Not too sure if it applies to all of her sentai shows as well at the moment other than Go-Busters, but yes for her rider shows looking back now. Ryuki had Shinji and Ren, Den-O had Ryotaro and Momo (or would it be Yuuto in this case?), OOO had Eiji and Ankh.

I just... I'm not sure if I'd put Ren and Shinji in the same bucket as the other partnerships? That's more of your standard Rider pairing; arguably the template for your standard Rider pairing. (Agito toyed with that stuff, but there wasn't a ton of cross-pollination between the Shoichi and Ryo parts.) With the Kobayashi partnerships I'm thinking of, it's all about forced partnerships, or contracts. Even Go-Busters is like These Are Your Assigned Guardians, rather than a conscious choice made by a group of children. The Contract Monsters are the Ryuki iteration of all of that in my mind, not terribly different in concept than the Imagin of Den-O, if not wildly different in personality and narrative utility.