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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

With the Kobayashi partnerships I'm thinking of, it's all about forced partnerships, or contracts.

The Contract Monsters are the partners that Ryuki and Knight did actively choose, though! And they get along with their Riders much better than those Riders generally get along with each other! I'd definitely say Shinji and Ren still fit into what you're talking about even if the exact details of their situation are different. If it's also a standard Rider pairing, maybe that just means the template itself is already quite close, which would explain why Ex-Aid can touch on similar ideas.

Anyway, it's nice to see OOO having the chance to chance to impress you all over again. I can definitely relate to the feeling of burning through one of these shows so fast everything except how much you enjoyed it immediately becomes a blur, even if that's not OOO in my case.

No, OOO is, as I've probably mentioned in your threads somewhere before, my very first Rider show, since I got into Rider when it was airing, but in part because of that, it's also a Rider show I've just never appreciated the way other people seem to? Like, this premiere was literally the first ever episode of Kamen Rider I watched, but most of what I still remember about that night is watching Kuuga?

Not that I'd want to downplay how strong a premiere it is, though, for reasons I probably don't need to explain to anyone. Fitting your idea of OOO maybe being the best because it's maybe the "least wrong" Rider show, I think pretty much anyone would struggle not to be charmed at least a little by everything going on here.