NeonZ
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If you mean the tv episodes, I really wouldn't describe them as "Wizard x Gaim".
They were written by Sho Aikawa, main writer of Blade's second half and Decade's first 13 episodes. It ended up basically like two new Decade episodes, taking place in what initially seems to be an AU Wizard world, but starring Haruto from the actual Wizard tv series, who is taken to that world. It took place after the Wizard finale, and even references what Haruto had just gone through, but Wizard's main plot itself had already ended, so this is a completely separate menace, and the only connection between Wizard and the final villain was that the villain was a wizard too. They also used these episodes to set up Wizard lacking Infinity in his own part of Sengoku Movie Battle (which was a more direct follow up to the tv show's plot).
The first episode had some obviously low budget parts, like form changes happening off screen and some odd effects, although there were still some nice segments too, but the second part looked much better and had some of Wizard's best action. Tsukasa himself has a big role in the second episode too.
All other Heisei Riders appear and all of them even get lines, but they're all suit-only with replacement voice actors. It was probably the best crossover for the pre-Decade Heisei Riders so far though, since it's the only one where there's some attempt at interaction and characterization for even the suit-only characters, even if obviously brief. Even comparing to Kamen Rider Taisen, which also gave lines to suit-only Rider, the Wizard episodes had much clearer interactions and attempts at characterization, like Blade being startled by Fourze's "space!" cry during battle, Kabuto and Faiz being considered jerks by Haruto, Agito telling Decade to ask next time he attempts to use a Final Form Ride on him, etc.
Obviously, it doesn't stand out much for W-Fourze though, since they've got actual crossovers where they were the focus and had their actors, but for the Riders that only appear as suits, this was the best one. Anyway, like I said, calling it "Wizard x Gaim" is really misleading. Gaim appears twice, at the end of both episodes, and you even get Kouta out of suit too both times, but he doesn't stick around as part of the main cast and is even absent from most of the fighting, although Gaim does get two fighting scenes almost completely to himself and he's also the deciding factor in the villain's defeat.
I expect something similar for Drive here. He likely will get a big debut scene near the ending of episode 47, but I doubt the episode will actually focus on a Gaim x Drive crossover.
