The Many Endings of Kamen Rider Ryuki | Explode When Defeated

Thought I was done talking about Ryuki? Nope! Kamen Rider Ryuki is sort of unique in that there's additional stuff to consider when recommending the show! There's a tv special, a movie, and a miniseries that JUST happened! Nearly 20 years after the show ended! Someone should break all this down for us! Well, no problem, I've got my hot takes cooked up for you all. Watch out!
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[@IllllllllIlllllllI]

The other endings are Shiro’s previous attempts to bring back his sister. 13 riders special was his first and second, the Episode Final movie was his third, and the main series was his fourth and final attempt. Whenever Shiro’s attempt failed, he restarted the timeline to try and make the outcome work in his favor using Odin’s time vent.

[@Blank-js3zt]

So no SIC ending included

[@SpectacularSpiderFan]

I mean Shiro died before he could Time Vent in episode final

[@KahKiatTan]

The best ending will be: 1. Whenever a rider manages to kill another rider, they can claim their deck as a power up. 2. Raia use the wind survive card to kill ouja first before giving to knight. 3. Mugen survive card to be given to ouja, leaving only odin, knight, ryuki and ouja in the final war. Knight and ryuki killing both ouja and odin. Then finally they have a 1 on 1 battle by crashing with their survive mode final vent and ryuki reviving everyone back and ending the rider war.

[@yeehaw5889]

Here after finishing Ryuki completely, including what exists in English of the novel! That book is like if Inoue tried doing to Episode Final what Episode Final did to the last 5 episodes of Ryuki. A bunch of the scenes between Shinji and Miho are repeated, the Mirror World is completely different again, and there's... some pretty graphic stuff in there. Pure Inoue. :(

[@slushysaturn]

Love to be reccomendee this 4 years later! Amazing vid

[@TabrisRebuild]

Verde was kind of amusing as a prototype Masamune Dan, but man, I hated the special's ending. For the record, not a big fan of Ryuki's ending personally, I enjoyed Episode Final a decent amount actually, just wish that given that it is one of the alternate timelines that sort of connects with Ryuki's central ending that they would've given these 2 stories proper endings to just toy around with since Shiro resets those timelines anyway for Ryuki's canon ending. I still need to see Rider Time though.

[@Reader999]

Rider Time takes place after the main series in the future.

[@trezion2111]

Personally I think Rider Time Ryuki was probably my least favorite of the 3, I just felt like it being a “sequel” to the original ending kinda gets in the way of what the original ending stood for.

[@explodewhendefeated3996]

I totally get that! Honestly if I was to rewatch Ryuki again i probably wouldn't put any of these into the rotation, but i just liked that one the best for weird fanservice reasons haha

[@trezion2111]

Explode When Defeated it was nice seeing so many of the Ryuki riders return honestly

[@trezion2111]

Jeffery Tang no

[@Jackson-hp7rt]

There is one other ending that I remember…and that’s an SIC story for Survive Ryuga, which also included a (imo) very interesting take on Ryuga.

[@mikulitsi1819]

10:47 I remember when this special got aired and being completely surprised by this scene 😅 Plot twist that I definitely wasn't expecting

[@KamenSentaiMetalHero]

I like 13 Riders and love Episodes Final. Never seen Rider Time.

[@kamenriderfunnymoments7219]

you forgot the Ryuki novel written by Inoue!!!

[@explodewhendefeated3996]

I draw the line at reading!

[@leventhumps3861]

I’ve never watched any of these, but I like it.

[@Nymphonomicon]

Was this Kamen Rider side story a tragedy or was this outcome for the best?

[@Usagi2380]

I just got the Blu Ray complete series of Ryuki that includes the Director's Cut of Episode Final

[@RagingSovereign]

What's the ending?

[@CutMan567]

I never watched the movies so WOW these sound dumb, I love it

[@explodewhendefeated3996]

I honestly recommend them for a fun, stupid time. Don't expect anything near the quality of the show and you'll be perfectly fine lol

[@sier236]

Which is the lore ending?

[@BirdOfTheEnd]

The Show's ending. Episode Final needed to be reset anyhow. Monsters are everywhere, Yui is dead, with only two Riders left.