[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

In any case, you can practically feel the writers backing themselves into a corner when they realize that these characters would make a great fit for new members of the KRC but they couldn't actually add new cast members to the show.

Yeah, I think Haru and Ran's story could've been a little more valuable if there was some sense that we were investing long-term in their growth -- like JK's story, or Tomoko's evolution -- or if this was a series built to run longer than a year. Instead, we're in a very dense story of two kids that's also simultaneously simplistic, and then at the end Kengo's like We'll See You In A Few Months; it's a standard Switch Story, despite how much work is done on the Haru/Ran stuff.