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Besides somebody pointing out the century time difference, there are more reasons.
Yuki and Rim are the only ones who slightly have rival potential.
Last Blade had a flowing story from 1 to 2. Sam Sho had four different stories from 1 to 4.
If you take everyone who ever fought in LB(including Awakened Kaede, Hyper Kagami, Hagure, and Shikyo/Mukuro as different characters), you'd have 22.
If you slim down the cast of SS(just 1-4, no 3D or pocket characters), you'd have 25.
Yuki and Rim are the only ones who slightly have rival potential.
Last Blade had a flowing story from 1 to 2. Sam Sho had four different stories from 1 to 4.
If you take everyone who ever fought in LB(including Awakened Kaede, Hyper Kagami, Hagure, and Shikyo/Mukuro as different characters), you'd have 22.
If you slim down the cast of SS(just 1-4, no 3D or pocket characters), you'd have 25.