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  • Accidental Innuendo: The name of Slash's Wonder Ride Book is "Hanselnuts to Gretel".
  • Alternate Character Interpretation: While Isaac spends most of the series smug and haughty, after his final defeat he clutches his recently repaired Omni Force Ride Book and says in a more somber voice "I am everlasting, just like this power!" Is this a result of him reflecting on his long life and breaking down because of how tired he is of living, or is it him trying to reassure himself that he is still a god after a string of losses to Xross Saber? Could his entire plan to plunge the world into chaos possibly be a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum? What helps that idea is that Storious also wants to have a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
    • An analysis of him on his Pixiv page notes that as he was born into a hereditary clan and intended to be the next Master Logos, he would have almost no relationships with people who were on an equal level to him and would have had few opportunities to make friends, and points out that him being immortal means he would have had to outlive all of his closest associates many times over.
  • Awesome Music: See here.
  • Badass Decay: In a show with this many characters and several of them getting stronger forms as the series goes on, it's only natural that the Riders who don't have access to as many forms as Touma or Rintaro will struggle to keep up with the growing threats posed in the series.
    • Ryo/Kamen Rider Buster and Tetsuo/Kamen Rider Slash both fall victim to this. As the two most experienced members of the first six Riders, they were shown to easily hold their own against several Megid the others struggled with, and showed off their skill when they both dueled Touma. Tetsuo in particular was able to counter attacks from Saber in his Crimson Dragon, Dragon Arthur, and Dragonic Knight forms in their first duel, and Touma could barely withstand a finisher from Ryo. After they both defected from the Sword of Logos and joined Touma's team, they generally started losing more fights, like when they took on Kamen Rider Sabela and the second Kamen Rider Calibur.
    • Durendal is also built up as a super powerful fighter in his debut, effortlessly manhandling Blades and putting Touma in a no-win scenario. Once the heroes figure out how his power works, however, he loses his edge pretty quickly.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: The civilian identity of the third Kamen Rider Calibur. Practically everyone called that it would be Kento, especially after Calibur's new suit actor previously was Espada's.
  • Catharsis Factor: After such a long time of enduring everything the smug, smarmy sociopath known as Isaac has done, it's immensely satisfying to see Touma beat the crap out of him in Chapter 39, wiping that smile off his face and leaving him seething with rage to the point of being left speechless. It goes further in 40, when Touma, Rintaro AND Kento all stomp his smarmy ass together, and finish off by destroying the Omniforce book with a Rider Kick. Isaac is left a broken heap of nothing, and even though he reforms his book later, Storious turns him to dust immediately after, with Isaac impotently screaming at Storious to kneel before him all the while. Isaac didn't just get taken down a peg; he got knocked off the wall.
  • Character Rerailment: Reika Shindai's post-series appearances depict her character more in line with how she was pre-Flanderization, with Girls Remix having her as a no-nonsense swordfighter who acts as a Cool Big Sis to Sakura and in her own post-series special she's simply someone who looks up to her older brother a whole lot, lacking the obsessive feelings towards her brother she was depicted with in the original series.
  • Complete Monster: Isaac Kanda/Kamen Rider Solomon is the leader of the Sword of Logos who grew bored from spending generations watching over humanity and allied with Storious, his guild's sworn enemy, to fulfill his psychotic ambitions. Desiring to use the Almighty Book to remake the world into one where "the screams of humans replace the birds chirping at dawn", Isaac coerced Hayato Fukamiya into sacrificing Luna for a ritual to connect the worlds and releasing the Megid, resulting in a skirmish that kills multiple swordsmen. To keep his subordinates from discovering his true ambitions, Isaac secretly killed the Four Sages and sent Reika Shindai to sow discord among the Northern Base members. He later tricks Touma into using the Primitive Dragon book so he'll be corrupted into a feral berserker by its power, and sets Bahato loose to use him to hunt down the swordsmen. After obtaining Omni Force and declaring himself god, Isaac delivers a global announcement goading the countries of the world into warring with each other, and resorts to destroying entire cities when violence doesn't break out fast enough. When even the Shindai siblings turn on him, Isaac mind controls Ryoga and forces him to attack his younger sister, and later uses the same trick to control Rintaro and Kento in order to force Touma to kill his own friends.
  • Contested Sequel: In comparison to Kamen Rider Zero-One. A small but significant portion of the fan base praise and defend Saber for having a more consistent and well-written cast of characters with great development, the minimal infighting among the riders being a breath of fresh air to them, attempting to have fewer questionable and contrived moments than it’s predecessor and having an interesting setting to boot. Others however, criticize Saber for its underwhelming first arc, its pacing being all over the place, having characters undergoing bigger Badass Decay to further the story (Buster, Slash), having certain plot points overstaying their welcome, or characters being poorly handled on different front (Rintaro’s conflict during the second arc, Kento’s long tenure as Calibur for a third of the show, Reika and Ryoga’s characterizations).
  • Crossover Ship: The crossover specials with Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger have caused a lot of fans to ship Reika with Magine given their Les Yay moment at the end.
  • Ending Fatigue: Isaac is built up as the Big Bad behind the show's Myth Arc, but after they defeat him they still have to deal with Storious, leading to an extended Final Battle that, while full of cool moments, doesn't really feel connected to the plot of the previous two arcs.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Desast. With his fun, interesting, cool personality and design, he has become the favorite for many people despite appearing very little in the story. Him being a villain, yet sometimes being kinder than most characters, along with a 'brother-like' relationship he formed with Ren, has endeared him to many fans. He's called a 'healing character' by many Japanese fans, the reason (aside from the ones mentioned above) is because of the few times he 'hijacked' Kamen Rider Saber's social media to post himself doing something called 'Desast's Walk' (like traveling) and it managed to flesh him out as a character that's not always bound to the main story of Saber. His warrior's death in Chapter 43 finally sealed the deal in him becoming a fan-favorite and a very memorable character. In a questionnaire for merch, Desast got so many votes that his merch got worked on 'as quickly as possible', while the writer of the news said that Desast is 'too popular'.
    • Yuri has also attracted a lot of fans for his funny Fish out of Temporal Water personality and character interactions with the rest of the Saber cast, and for his cool and interesting Rider form and powers.
    • Reika Shindai also attracted quite a lot of fans for being a tough and competent female Kamen Rider who poses a significant threat early on and holds her own against multiple other Riders throughout. This is likely what led to her and her brother getting their own special over a year after Saber ended.
  • Epileptic Trees:
    • Before much was revealed about him, many theories had been made about the current Master Logos, A.K.A. Isaac, with people theorizing he's anything from a secret Megid who infiltrated Sword of Logos to the first Master Logos pretending to be his successors.
    • Many fans love to push out theories of Mei becoming the next Espada after Kento due to recurring "hints" throughout the show, such as her being part of the prominent trio in the ending sequence instead of Kento, a moment or two of her wielding Ikazuchi for self-defense, and by process of elimination for images where both Espada and Calibur appear together. After Kento has returned to the mantle of Espada, this gets turned into Mei being the next Calibur instead after further images for the final arc shows that Calibur is still being used by someone, which turned out to be Sophia.
  • Evil Is Cool:
    • Kamen Rider Calibur, for appearing as an ominous figure that is a total badass in battle, not to mention the transformation announcements of his Wonder Ride Books, his finishers, and deep intentions behind his villainy.
    • Desast is a rogue, wicked Blood Knight Megid who seeks the thrill of battling those who are worthy of being his opponent.
    • Reika Shindai is a mysterious figure who manipulates the Riders towards her own mysterious goal, and eventually gets to show off in battle when she takes to the field as Kamen Rider Sabela. She's also one of the Dark Action Girl in the Kamen Rider series who manages to be a serious threat against the Riders.
    • Storious becomes this following Chapter 40, in which he betrays Isaac and claims the Final Boss mantle, becoming a lot more hammy and gaining a formidable Kamen Rider form in the process.
  • Fandom Rivalry: A Friendly Rivalry one with The Rising of the Shield Hero due to its medieval fantasy themes and the subplot involving the main character being scapgoated by a female villain.
  • Fanfic Fuel: Given how they've been around for 2,000 years, and how the cast are the current generation of the S.O.L. Riders, the Sword of Logos and Wonder World have a lot of history that's ripe for exploration.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • The moment the trademark was revealed, fans were already calling it Kamen Rider Fate. It did not help that the main rider's design seems to be similar to Georgios.
    • Fighting Fairy has been dubbed "Tankerbell" and "Tinkerdumbbell".
    • Zooous, given his animal and book themes and number of "O"s in his name, is often referred to as "ZooBooks".
    • A lot of fans call Ryo "Rider Dad" because of his status as a good father.
    • Given the confusion over how to spell Sabela's name, some fans gave up and started referring to her as "Kamen Rider Girlboss".
    • Sword of ZAFT for the Southern Base swordsmen, due to sharing the red coloration of their uniforms.
    • "Book Jesus" for Touma (paralleling Kouta's moniker of "Fruit Jesus") due to the reality warping powers he has as the wielder of Xross Saber, as well as his Wonder World Guardian status affording him godlike power.
  • Fountain of Memes: Mei Sudo, for how showy and exaggerated her reactions to things are. Here's some of her facial expressions from just the first two episodes.
  • Growing the Beard: In a Word of Saint Paul example, Angela Mei felt her performance as Reika early on was fairly poor and lacking in nuance. It wasn’t until episode 40 that she felt comfortable playing the character.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Tetsuo's run as Kamen Rider Slash was cut rather short, since he needed a considerable amount of time repairing Suzune, leading him to premiere much later than most of the main cast, only to have Suzune also be the first Sacred Sword sealed by Calibur, his Rider powers gone with it. Considering his actor Hiroaki Oka was one of, if not the biggest, Kamen Rider fan in the main cast, those tears over losing his powers may not have been just Tetsuo's. This gets mitigated when Suzune gets unsealed.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • All the comments regarding Kamen Rider Saber being too similar to Super Sentai became more humorous with the arrival of the newest Super Sentai series, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, which received comments about looking too similar to Kamen Rider due to Zenkaiser's bug eyes, antenna, and armor make him look like a Kamen Rider, while his bukly robotic teammates remind viewers of the support robots used by them such as Auto Vajin or various Mini Mechas, and that is going before the fact that both the heroes and the evil organization use the same kind of technology, which harkens to the Cross of Fire used throughout the Kamen Rider franchise. And THEN they both got a crossover movie announced...
    • The original backlash back when it was announced that the head writer for Saber would be the same head writer as the widely-reviled Kamen Rider Ghost, Takuro Fukuda, becomes outright hysterical now that Saber is getting a crossover with Ghost.
    • Given how one of the criticisms for Kamen Rider Ghost was that its Final Boss was retooled from the suit of the summer movie villains, it's quite ironic that the Final Boss of Saber Kamen Rider Storious, is a retool of Kamen Rider Solomon, who was retooled from a Kasshine suit and Jaou Dragon's head, making it a retool of a retool of a retool.
  • Ho Yay:
    • Touma and Rintaro's argument in Chapter 25 devolves into them angrily complimenting one another, saying their positives are why they like one another. Even Mei remarks that it's beginning to sound like a lover's quarrel.
    • Then there's their untransformed duel in Chapter 31, which gives off G-Rated Sex vibes, complete with lying down exhausted and their swords crossing.
  • I Knew It!: Many fans guessed that the current Calibur was not Hayato Fukamiya but instead Daichi Kamijo, due to how obsessed Calibur was with Saber, how he resonated too well with both Jaaku Dragon and Brave Dragon, and how he (and by extension Desast, whom he released) were in possession of the two other Wonder Ride Books needed to complete Saber's Wonder Combo, being the previous Saber himself. Sure enough, they were right.
    • Funnily enough, this happens again upon the third Calibur's entrance, with many automatically thinking it was Kento due to Calibur now sharing a suit actor with Espada. No points for guessing who was revealed as the user an episode later....
  • Love to Hate:
    • Zooous is a sadistic Blood Knight who killed Rintaro's mentor, but is a showy and stylish enough bad guy that it's hard not to have at least some fun rooting against him.
    • Isaac as well for fans who like him. He's Ax-Crazy and utterly self-absorbed, which makes him all the more fun to root against.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Daichi Kamijou/Kamen Rider Calibur was the previous Kamen Rider Saber of the Sword of Logos, until his friend Hayato Fukamiya's sudden betrayal led him to suspect there was a traitor in the guild. Faking his death and taking his late friend's identity as Calibur, Kamijou works with the Megid to access the Table of Revelations so he can use it to confirm his suspicion. When the swordsmen Riders overpower him, Kamijou creates the Jaou Dragon book to counter them and defeats Kento, but seals him inside Kurayami to avoid killing him while keeping his promise to Hayato. After the Megid gather enough Alter Ride Books, Daichi uses them to create a portal to the Table of Revelations while the Megid generals hold off the Riders. Defeated by Touma, Daichi realizes his mistake was not trusting his friends and entrusts Touma to carry on his search for the traitor shortly before his demise. His spirit would later reconcile with Hayato and helps the Kamen Riders defeat Storious in the Final Battle.
  • Memetic Badass:
  • Memetic Molester: Isaac, with his creepily stroking an unconscious and vulnerable Luna's hair (right after he had Reika kidnap her) in Chapter 35. Some of his expressions in previous Chapters (and a disgusting close up of his salivating mouth), as well as his obsession in getting his hands on her only further this, to the point that the fanbase has given him the nickname "Master Pedo".
  • Memetic Mutation: See this page for examples.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: The jingles for matching Wonder Ride Books that the Seiken Swordriver plays are all super catchy. Also, the jingles for the other riders' equipment whether it be their Wonder Ride Books, swords or belts, prove to be just as catchy and amazing.
    • The jingle for Dragonic Knight is also as amazing as it is heroic. It's a fitting form for a hero like Touma.
    • Cailbur gets a special mention for his transformation themes managing to be both scary and stunning. His Jaaku Dragon form brings in a menacing jingle dripping with horror and awe. Jaou Dragon form takes it up a notch with a terrifying and thrilling heavy metal tune that shows how dangerous this Rider is.
    • We need to mention how beautiful it sounds when we hear "KING LION~! DAI-SEN-KEI~!"
    • Kamen Rider Saikou's standby jingle is a bop. Listen for yourself!
    • Xross Saber's standby and transformation jingles are just pure beauty.
  • Narm: Zooous's random flips throughout Chapters 30-31 are completely out of nowhere, and severely hurts the drama of the scene. On the other hand, it can fall into Narm Charm due to how hilarious and in character it is for him. Unfortunately it's really a Death Flag (the actor's last chance to pull some of his stunts).
    • Touma running to save Luna by crossing a bridge of golden energy in Chapter 35 turns into this, with a combination of Syuichiro Naito's awkward emoting and Special Effects Failure diluting the emotional impact of the scene. Naito even tweeted about that scene of all scenes a year after.
    • Prior to the above, a quiet scene between Luna and Touma comes off as awkward due to the young actress showing discomfort talking to the adult Touma like longtime pals and equals. Notably, the character was aged up for the final episodes despite just being an avatar of Wonder World itself, likely to prevent taking away from the emotional gravitas of the series' climax.
    • Any scene where adult Touma interacts with child Luna can feel awkward given the age difference between the actors. There are many who feel Luna should have been given an adult form sooner because of this.
  • Obvious Judas: Reika doesn't have any ulterior motives for turning the Sword of Logos against Touma at all.
  • Older Than They Think:
    • Some fans have expressed some confusion and shock by the fact that Yuri's Rider form as Kamen Rider Saikou is his own sword. Although his is certainly one of the more unique transformations, he's hardly the first to do this, with other Kamen Riders like Kiriya Kujo and Ryu Terui being key examples.
    • Mixed-race representation in toku actually goes all the way back to the original Ultraman, when Noboru Tsuburaya anticipated the spread of tokusatsu overseas, and considered international appeal in the casting - it wasn't till Return of Ultraman that they were able to get the mixed-race Jiro Dan in the lead role. Even in Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Kiva had Yuri Aso played by the Filipino-Japanese actress Yu Takahashi.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Professional wrestler and female bodybuilder Reika Saiki appears in a single scene of episode 4 as the "Fighting Fairy", where she lays a memorable smackdown on the Monster of the Week.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
    • Midway through, Ren Akamichi became disliked by many fans for his immaturity compared to the other swordsmen, refusal to even acknowledge Touma come the Betrayal Arc, and lack of any clear growth. After he threw his lot in with Desast however and got an arc about training with him and moving past his previous character flaws, he's now in the running for fan favorite. Quite a spectacular turn around.
    • This also applies to Saber's final form, Xross Saber. Upon it's initial preview, many fans were disappointed by it being essentially a Palette Swap of Saber's Brave Dragon base mode and called it lazy. Following it's spectacular introduction in Chapter 38 however, on top of the reveal that it's actually an upgraded base mode that can assume different forms depending on which Wonder Ride Books are used, and the fact that it was painted by hand, most fans have warmed up to it.
  • Shocking Moments:
    • It was not particularly surprising that Kento returned as Calibur. The actual gut punch came when it was revealed how thoroughly fucked up he is now, having been Mind Raped pretty much to insanity.
    • Chapter 31 starts with a particularly abrupt Wham Shot showing Isaac working with Storious!
    • Issac's death at Storious' hands at the end of Chapter 40 is a stark contrast to the hopeful battle that had just been fought. The moment isn't unexpected - how it goes down is. It's an abrupt, suffocating moment of terror that stands out in an otherwise action-oriented episode.
  • Slow-Paced Beginning: Common consensus among fans is that the show starts out very slowly as it introduces all of the characters and gimmicks, with not much happening to further the story. Around Chapter 10 is where the series is considered to start picking up steam.
  • So Okay, It's Average: Many fans agree Saber is an okay show and a step up from Kamen Rider Ghost in several regards, but that its handling of its cast of Riders isn't always balanced the best and that lacks in areas like development for several of its characters.
  • Special Effect Failure: Due to starting production during a pandemic, it's clear that Toei would not have as much access to their usual resources, and the effects would have a noticeably lower quality around the beginning of the series.
    • At the end of Chapter 1, there is an effect of Kamen Rider Blades entering by lion and it looks absolutely disorienting as the legs and movement looks like the actor is on a hobble horse.
    • While admittedly, it does look awesome, it's quite obvious whenever it switches from live-action to Unreal Engine.
    • Chapter 2 has Saber activating his Dragon Jackun form, but during his transformation sequence the opened giant Jackun-to-Domamenoki Wonder Ride Book behind him displayed Lion Senki's right pagenote , with all the plant vines sprouting out of that page. This was fixed for the same episode's release on China's Tencent Video.
    • Early previews that feature Kamen Rider Espada's primary Wonder Ride Book has it titled as Lamp Do Alnginanote , despite the Cypher Language title underneath properly spelling it as Lamp Do Alangina. The official release of the product months later has the title adjusted and corrected as such.
    • Chapter 8 raises the stakes significantly, but the fact that the prop Buster sword is seen flopping a bit in fight scenes dilutes the suspense. Same in Chapter 14 - everyone's struggling against the Megid generals, but Gekido flopping around makes the fight that much harder to take seriously.
      • Also, Saber doing a forward roll while picking up Buster's equipment out of despair after the latter had been Taken for Granite, has him visibly struggling and failing to pick up his Wonder Ride Book in the motion, which dampens the emotional impact the scene is trying to convey.
    • Saikou's transformation in Chapter 16 has Yuri pulling out his sword from the belt by gripping the handle normally, before the next two cuts has him gripping the sword's handle guard, and then the last cut with him stretching out his arm has him holding the sword handle once again.
    • Just before Saber's transformation to Primitive Dragon in Chapter 24, we see Saber sheath the dagger sized Rekka.
    • Try your best not to laugh when watching the very shoddy editing of Touma running up the bridge of golden energy in Chapter 35.
    • During Chapter 46, the hole in which Storious knocks down Touma to was meant to be a Bottomless Pit, but looking closely, and you can see a crew down there, likely providing the landing cushions for the stunt actors.
  • Sweet Dreams Fuel: If you ever wanted a show with a large cast of Kamen Riders but where they get along and don't fight all the time note , Saber is the show for you.
  • Tainted by the Preview: The announcement that Takuro Fukuda, the head writer for Kamen Rider Ghost (one of the most heavily disliked seasons in all of Kamen Rider), would be the head writer for Saber caused no small amount of worry and skepticism among fans. However, fans have noted that Ghost suffered from quite a bit of Executive Meddling, so they're keeping their hopes up.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • While Saber's cast is for the most part well-characterized, the fact that it has so many characters and that they're often all crammed together in a scene leads to a lot of them not getting much development or having a chance to shine and bounce off each other.
    • For someone so involved in the plot of the show and one half of its Big Bad Duumvirate, being the explanation he himself gives we don't learn much about how Isaac came to hold his current beliefs, including if he ever was once truly heroic or if he was always contemptuous of his duty.
    • While Storious gets a substantial amount of development towards the end, his fellow Megid Legeiel and Zooous receive much less focus despite being set up as the Evil Counterparts to Saber and Blades.
  • Unexpected Character:
    • Fresh off Kamen Rider Genms -The Presidents- bringing us a crossover with Zero-One and Ex-Aid, we get Kamen Rider Saber X Kamen Rider Ghost, complete with Takeru, Kanon and Jabel's actors reprising their roles. Then a follow up of Specter X Blades, with Makoto's actor reprising his role, along with Kanon getting a Rider form, the return of the Sinspecter form, and a Specter Wonder Ride Book, with Rintaro getting a power-up form based on Deep Specter.
    • Many Fans expected Ikki and Vice from the next series to make a appearance in the final episode but no one expected George Karizaki to make a appearance.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome:
    • Amongst all of the CGI effects, the flames when Touma is using Rekka are extraordinarily well-done, looking just conspicuous enough to make it seem like the flames are otherworldly.
    • Rintaro coming out of the pages of a book is absolutely stunning to look at.
    • Wonder World actually looks decent for all that it's worth, looking straight out of a fantasy book.
    • The unsheathing of the Swordrivers are usually done with a Smash Cut, where users transition from pulling out the dagger-sized Seiken from the belt in the first cut to suddenly wielding a full-sized sword in the next. In Chapter 5 however, Saber manages to sheathe and unsheathe his full-sized Seiken from his Swordriver without the Smash Cut or any special effects, instead achieved through having his left hand hide the rest of the blade protruding out of the other end of the Swordriver while from the front it looked as though he was just holding onto his belt for the action.
    • Chapter 15 features an exotic view of the climatic battle between Saber Dragonic Knight and Calibur Jaou Dragon with a cosmic background.
  • Wangst: While most agree the Betrayal arc broke a lot of old trends and had gripping character-moments, Rintaro's ten-plus episode long inner conflict isn't usually counted among them, with fans making comparisons to Yua Yaiba's own distant treatment from the preceding season.
  • Win Back the Crowd: Saber looks to be one for Takuro Fukuda. After his previous work, Kamen Rider Ghost, was received lukewarmly at best, Saber has received much more praise for its well-placed plotline, handling of numerous Riders and steady Worldbuilding. It also helps that Ghost has been seen in a better light in recent years.
  • WTH, Costuming Department?:
    • For many, Kento's new look after coming back. A lot of people point out his coat looks like a potato sack.
    • Saber's Final Form, Xross Saber, when shown in the preview for Chapter 38 and in magazine scans, received a rather negative reception as said form is little more than a repaint of Saber's base form. For a final form, this came off as incredibly underwhelming. The only thing thing that wasn't received negatively was the new sword, the Haouken Xross Saber, making it the first weapon since the Axcalibur to be used exclusively by the final form.
      • As time went on, however, this reaction died down somewhat, starting with the later reveal that Xross Saber has multiple forms depending on the Wonder Ride Books used, a series first.note  And when it finally debuted, many found themselves won over, with an amazing transformation sequence, a transformation jingle that surpasses Kamen Rider Grand Zi-O's in length, and the debut of Saber's first insert theme, sung by Touma, Rintaro and Kento's actors.
    • This came back however with the final form of the series being the same suit (with a minimal shade difference on the red) as the original Brave Dragon suit similar to Realizing Hopper from Zero One. Though many point out that it's somewhat better for several reasons (it's a lot easier to see the Wonder Almighty Wonder Ride Book in comparison to the Realizing Hopper Progrisekey and it actually has an All Your Powers Combined effect, compared to Realizing Hopper simply being a power and speed boost).
  • Woolseyism: Some of Saber's naming conventions and puns don't translate well into English, so some fansubs substitute those names for these. Expect to see both versions used by editors.
    • [Sword name], battounote ! = Unsheathe the [translated sword name]!note 
    • Sword names:
      • Sword of Thunder, Ikazuchi = Sword of Lightning
      • Greatsword of Earth, Gekido = Sword of Tremors
      • Twin Sword of Wind, Hayate = Sword of Zephyrs
      • Gun-Sword of Sound, Suzune = Sword of Echoesnote 
      • Sword of Darkness, Kurayami = Sword of Shadows
      • Robust Sword of Light, Saikou = Sword of Radiance
      • Ruling Sword of Time, Kaiji = Sword of Eons
      • Sword of the Void, Kyomu = Sword of Null
      • Galactic Sword, Haouken Xross Saber = Sword of the Cosmos
    • Hissatsu Dokuhanote  = Final Page
    • Shuutoku Issennote  = Flash Learning
    • Soukannote  = Issue the Issue
    • Ittou Ryodan! Buttagire!note  = Fracture the Enemy! Divide the land!
    • (Kaishin no) Gekido Randoku Geki!note  = (Intense) Gekido Sporadic Strike!note 
    • Sokudoku Gekinote  = Skimming Strike
    • Ondoku Gekinote  = Recital Strike

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