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Definitely glad to see the story isn't afraid to deal with heavier topics that fall in grayer areas, though you can definitely see the Japanese inclination towards societal health over individual. Processing loss is a universal human need but shoehorning technology into place to fix it kinda straddl...

Man, first episode in and we already get more character development for Aruto than we got for over half of the entire season for Sougo. I pray this means the new writing team won't go off the bend. Strongest first episode we've had for awhile, the comedy veers pretty close to cringe, but I think it ...

This is to me the ABSOLUTE WORST SEASON in the ENTIRE run of the Heisei Era :/ This season is a low 2, would be a low 1 if not for Decade and DiEnd and a couple of the exceptions to how UTTERLY TERRIBLE the use of all the cameos were. If not for them I would have dropped the series and just read the...

Kabuto, Gaim, then Kiva. Kabuto got me into Kamen Rider in the first place, and it was a masterful showing of how you could have an exciting premise but also realistic, genuine characters even if you made your protagonist over the top, and still managed to make it more mature and developed on top of...

Not even taking pushing Drive's Watch into the movie into account, this season was a TIRE FIRE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS @_@ For an anniversary season of all things they decide to retcon every five to six episodes what happens and why, have characters with zero development and charisma, and with maybe two...

Yeah, its beyond salvaging at this point I think :/ Was a good episode moment to moment, but the whole thing still feels a discombobulated mess. Chase dying feels like it should have been the crux of getting the Drive Watch properly, but instead we get a pass-over to Tsukuyomi getting Rider-fied. No...

Well this is just a right mess now. I'd buy this "merge into one to destroy them all" theory if it hadn't been pushed as pure TIME TRAVEL from episode 1. Or if they had stated it was all merged into one world cause then the whole "each Rider in a different year" idea would have actually worked bette...

So Ora killed Heure.... to get close to Schwartz to kill him for Heure. Yeah, that sure is character development there, Toei. And yeah I saw death flags for Aqua the minute he showed up. If he's the one with the knowledge of who Tsukuyomi really is and her family origins, you know he's not gonna be ...

Man this was boring :/ There's no twist to Ora being Another Drive, nothing of her character it plays off of since she was always wanting power in the first place. Likely this was just an excuse to fit all the Riders in at the last second to make Grand Zi-O turn out as badly thought out as the rest ...

AHHH MY EYES! DAMMIT TOEI, THAT CRACK ABOUT WOZ WASN'T A CHALLENGE!

How in the good lord's name did they find a color even WORSE than that neon lime green, its like every brand of athletic gear in the world threw up on him @_@

Well it was more entertaining, to say the least. Though they're going whole hog on this badly written, badly backed angle they've gone in. Hiryuu was a mess from start to finish, there was no reason Grand Zi-O shouldn't have walked right through him at the start unless you count Sougo's emotional fl...

When your biggest draws to the episode are the Riders from the last anniversary season 10 years earlier, you're definitely on the wrong track. Repeating the whole memory loss/alternate timeline crap makes even less sense than it did before, not even touching the most basic of basic stuff like "Why a...

Welp, I'll admit it, I'm impressed. It managed to replicate most of the feel of an actual Den-O episode and thats leagues better than anything to do with the standard Zi-O quality. The B plot was weak but we already had one good Another Den-O with the movie so asking for two would of course be too m...

Hey I called the "Zi-O is 20" alphabetical overlay to numerical right from the start, it was something that just screamed "Toei nonsense" :P And to the uncle, only because Zi-O is literally hijacking all of Decade's tropes and the bit with Natsumi's grandfather becoming Professor Shinigami was a thi...

Well I was a lot less disappointed with it than I thought I'd be. Pretty clear though that whoever directed FOREVER was the only capable writer on staff so of course they had to ignore everything he did and just go ham on the Imagin being mischievous and steamrolling over everyone's pace the whole w...