I kinda have a suspicion that all Gaim riders have the potential to be good, so they could be not as antagonistic in the teamup movie. Even Zangetsu, the rider compared to Ouja, has the redeeming quality of loving his family, and we know what Ouja thinks about his own family. He sounds more like Seto Kaiba to me.

I think if the apprentice plotline came earlier, there would be less complaints that Shunpei was there purely for comic relief purposes. I read some critique that he doesn't actually fill being the emotional center, as that was some other character I coudlnt' recall.

If nothing else, Junko Komura seems to get a better reception as a writer and she wrote a ton of episodes. I kinda wonder what she could be making in a couple of years if becomes head writer of anything.