Only The Two
Originally Posted on: 6-10-2024
Contains Spoilers for Kamen Rider Gotchard. Originally posted on mastodon.
Something I really appreciate about Gotchard is I also like how gotchadriver/fuga's driver and the dreadriver are the only drivers that really exist in gotchard.
Yes, there is the valvadriver and alchemisdriver... But they are derivative of the design Fuga created.
Meanwhile the Dreadriver was made by the dark sisters.
(Though I wouldn't be shocked if Geryon took some notes from Fuga's book... That part is purely in the realm of speculation though.)
I'm not one to care about the rider count of a show if it suits the plot, but the fact Gotchard has a small rider count really helps sell the legendary status that a Kamen Rider has in the Gotchard canon.
I just think it's neat. It's a neat bit of world building that there's only really these two drivers in existence, and the other ones that do exist outside of the dreadriver are derivative of Fuga's original design.