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Episode 10: Knight's Crisis
- Kitaoka looked at first like a selfish adult who even refused requests from children, in this case it is a girl. When he learn that the girl's mother was hospitalised and her father (eaten by a Wildboarder), who've kidnapped Shimada to get ransom money for medical fee, he did have a change of heart. He paid for the operation fee to atone for his mistakes.
- The girl protesting at Shinji and Ren when they got into a fight with Shuichi afterwards since while the latter two don't know it, she is fully grateful for Kitaoka paying her mother's medical fee without asking anything for in return.
Episode 14: Revival Day
- One of Kitaoka's first plans in the Rider War was to give Shinji a Heroic BSoD by making him think he killed Zolda. This brings Shinji to the brink of suicide. But Ren helps him by exposing the ruse, despite the fact he says he doesn't care for Shinji. After Kitaoka calls Shinji a fool, Ren says: "He might be a fool, but he may be a better man than you and I."
- In the full scene, Shinji just found out Kitaoka and Goro had tricked him and he just grabs the latter's sleeves and collapses to his knees head bowed saying how glad he is he didn't kill him. Goro for his part looks half confused half wanting to reassure him.
- Pretty much all of Ren's plot for this episode, when he hears Shinji killed Zolda he actually goes to try and offer some comfort then quickly figures out Shinji was tricked and works with Reiko to show Shinji the truth and get some petty payback.
- Afterwards, we see Ren and Shinji team up together against Deadlemur, the two of them working together to take it down. Considering how standoffish Ren often is towards Shinji, it's nice to see them actually making a really good team together.
Episode 15: Iron Mask Legend
- The sheer relief in Shinji's voice when he meets Tezuka. The whole time, he's met Riders that have no issue with fighting one another, but now he finally found an ally with the same goal as him; to stop the fighting.
Episode 19: Rider Gathering
- Combined with Awesome: Shinji shows he's a hero even when he's not a Rider: He just finished off a Mirror Monster, but after returning to the shop he entered the Mirrror World from, he finds that back in the real world Ax-Crazy Blood Knight Asakura has held everyone inside hostage. Hearing a girl cry for her mother, he secretly holds a doll to her face from afar to calm her down. Even after he's found out and is given a chance to leave, he still stays inside because the girl was held as leverage. When he leaves, he gets knocked out by tear gas but managed to get the girl out unhurt. They were carried off to an ambulance, their hands still interlocked. This is the only time in the series where our resident Butt-Monkey Idiot Hero gets any respect at all. Sadly, downplayed when not ten minutes later Asakura makes his Rider debut.
Episode 30: Zolda’s Lover
- At the start of the episode, Shinji gives Kitaoka a box of sweets as an apology. Kitaoka, of course, tells Goro to throw them out, but Goro instead keeps one of them in his pocket.
Episode 34: Friendship Battle
- Goro and Kitaoka have plenty of nice moments together (mostly because of Goro), but this episode takes the cake.
- Goro suspects that Asakura is going to make a move against Kitaoka soon, and so gets Kitaoka out of the house without telling him in order to keep him safe, knowing that if Kitaoka knew about Asakura, he'd want to try and fight him.
- The next day they see Asakura standing in front of their car as they barrel down the highway, with Goro fully intending to run him down... only for Kitaoka to wrench the wheel away at the last moment. Why? Because it's not Goro's fight... it's his. Considering how much of a slimy rat Kitaoka can be at times, it's very touching to see him refuse to let Goro bloody his hands in his grudge-match against Asakura.
- Shinji, Ren and Yui are all forced out of the cafe for the day, and spend it at a theme-park, going on rides and goofing around together. Well, Shinji and Yui goof around, Ren sits off to the side looking stoic as ever, but it's just nice to see the characters of such a bleak, heavy series taking some time off to relax and enjoy themselves.
- We get to see some more of Ren and Eri's relationship together, showing how they both bonded over their mutual enjoyment of riding a motorbike. When Ren finally challenges Shinji to a battle, he's only doing it because Eri's rapidly failing health means he truly has no more options. Despite his rough nature, despite his constant jabs at Shinji, he genuinely didn't want to have to fight him... but now he has to, and it's plain to see how much it hurts him.
Episode 50: A New Life
- Ren finally managing to see Eri one last time before supposedly dying prior to the timeline reset.
- Shiro agreeing to Yui's wishes to end the Rider Fight and reset time so that it never happened, then with their younger selves drawing as the main ones join them.
Movies & Specials
Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode FINAL
- Miho slowly growing to care for Shinji in spite of how she originally treated him throughout the film.
- Really, most scenes involving Shiro and Yui qualify for this. But special mention has to go to the movie's ending credits. It begins with a young Yui playing alone on the swings until a young Shiro approaches from behind. He calls for her and then the two run to embrace each other.
- This even gets more heartwarming when you consider that the swings imagery was also heavily used for young Yui in the movie.
Kamen Rider Ryuki: Ryuki VS Kamen Rider Agito
- Also doubles as funny, this special has a really nice moment where Shinji, Ren, Kitaoka, and Asakura (In addition to the real Kamen Rider Agito) fights alongside each other instead of against each other. Knowing the nature of the Rider Wars,it feels relieving to see the 4 of the Ryuki Riders actually being allies (most especially Asakura, who is pleasantly nice in the video and not the usual ruthless killer he's known as). Too bad it turns out to be a dream.
