nebenbei so als pro tip: wenn ihr einen bürostuhl mit rollen habt und entweder selbst lange haare habt oder ein haustier mit langhaarfell: macht mal die rollen sauber. you'll thank me later (or not) 

like, it's one of those things were you'd just assume it's always been there from the very beginning, though to be fair, the first 13 episodes of a franchise that spans over half a century at this point makes this basically a rounding error lmao

i gotta say, though, what did genuinely surprise me is that arguably the most iconic thing associated today with kamen rider (and the whole super sentai genre in general) didn't even show up in the first season (if you want to call it that) - it took 14 episodes until the first proper HENSHIN! sequence happened, and it wasn't even the OG rider that did it first