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I read once that Black RX was originally conceived to be its own show separate from Black, with Ryohei Kobayashi (who played FiveBlack and appeared in Jiban) as the star. But due to Black's popularity Tetsuo Kurata was brought back for one more year. What if RX hadn't been a sequel, though? Would it have been better received, or was its style the issue regardless of the fact that Kotaro is now smiling and doing Clark Kent-style shenanigans?
If RX was its own show, I'm thinking that Black could still have made guest appearances like previous Riders had done: perhaps once for the Shadow Moon arc and once more for the finale instead of ten suits. Maybe even the first episode too a la Blue Beet in B-Fighter Kabuto. (That was actually a story idea I once had for an Black/RX adaptation: Black breaks or has his Kingstone broken in two and implants them into a cyborg created by Crisis to save his life, and who thus is reborn as RX.)
If RX was its own show, I'm thinking that Black could still have made guest appearances like previous Riders had done: perhaps once for the Shadow Moon arc and once more for the finale instead of ten suits. Maybe even the first episode too a la Blue Beet in B-Fighter Kabuto. (That was actually a story idea I once had for an Black/RX adaptation: Black breaks or has his Kingstone broken in two and implants them into a cyborg created by Crisis to save his life, and who thus is reborn as RX.)