Hahaha! Kabuto stinks! I am WINDI-KAYTED!

Bullshit the Advent decks are explained in Ryuki. Why does Ouja have THREE contract cards? Never explained. Why are there THREE Tiger decks? Never explained.

Ryuki explained nothing. Not the decks, not the driving plot of the show, nothing. "The last Rider will recieve the power to do whatever they want, and that will also save my sister somehow, even though I maade the rules and if I decide who has this power, why don't I just use it myself to save my sister? WHO CARES LET'S ALL FIGHT!"

Ryuki was borderline braindead.

I like Ryuki despite the lack of explanations for a lot of the stuff like where did the cards come from and the rules of time travel in this universe and Mirror world people and stuff.

Although, I think the show explained that the two other Tiger decks were fake.

Although it's a bit of a rocky ride, Dragon Knight has a much more focused story from the sound of things, it keeps things much simpler which probably helps but simple doesn't have to mean bad. From everything said in here - even by those who appear to like the show - Ryuki sounds like a convoluted mess.

Honestly if you can keep that it is an adaptation created by a very different culture in mind, I think you might enjoy Dragon Knight, especially if you already liked the action and designs.

I appreciate Dragon Knight's original action so far and I like the acting outside of the fight scenes... but that's it. The acting becomes really wooden for me once there's conflict.

Yeah I think the way they've handled the Riders is probably the worst part of the series so far. The editing is atrocious, the way characters are introduced and killed off is a mess and they are clearly itching to take Len in a different direction but are trapped by the footage they have to work with. Still a lot of problems come from the Ryuki action itself too, like the convoluted powers and the atrocious special effects.

That probably sounds like it'd break a series, but the show is heavily serialised and has a lot of story so for once the action largely serves the plot, rather than the other way round and so there is more than enough to keep you invested even if the action repeatedly underwhelms.

Dragon Knight had way cooler transformations, though.

Ryuki was literally a few beeps and badly super-imposed still images of the rider flip onto the actor. Dragon Knight has like this cool bubble effect with steam and shit like they're really doing something cool.

Ryuki fumbled it's riders a lot, too. A LOT seemed really pointless.

I wish that Dragon Knight made a compromise between the cool special effects of its transformation but no substance and the hand poses yet no special effects of the original.

I don’t think the original transformation s from Ryuki are that bad.

So far though pretty much ALL of DK's Riders have been pointless. I mean Kit has got to grow, and it's been kind of an interesting journey when you look back on it but we have four Rider's down and you can count the achievements between the four of them on one hand. Strike definitely looks set to ramp up the threat level of the villains FINALLY but he has not been executed very well at all yet.

DK 15. DAT CLIP SHOW. What is worse about the clipshows is basically the whole show IS a a clipshow, seriously some episodes have almost four minutes worth of recapping, before a ten second cold open, then a two minute intro sequence. Over five minutes of the episode is basically completely wasted and minus ads and stuff these are like twenty minutes long as they are.

I wonder if this show feels so rushed because they're trying to make up for lost time that their ridiculously long recaps waste.

Yeah, Ouja (Strike's original counterpart) was purportedly the wild card, but all he did was kill a few riders and people muck around aimlessly. He had no point, and I later found out he was only supposed to be a minor charatcer. (as evident in his suit design. The main characters with all the gimmicks and focus have coloured bodysuits, but to minimize cost any minor/short-lived characters had the black undersuit) And BOY does it feel like it. He basically had no purpose after a sort while, and was a total wash of a character. His only highlight was in the EXCELELNT final episode (well, excellent until they smashed the reset button five minutes from the end) where everyone's storylines were capped off brilliantly in what would have been the best finale to a rider series ever.