I thought the ending helped salvage the show for me. Seeing that everything that had happened up to that point more or less worked into Fueki's plan really helped make all of the MotW plots feel like they did serve a point. Maybe it's just because this came after Fourze, where the villain barely had a plan, but I liked the idea behind the master plot. It's just that the pacing was awful and they hinged way too much of the ending on a character whose actress couldn't be bothered to show up to work.

I would've flushed out some of the ideas better in a few series'. Kiva, for example. There were many ideas they displayed but never explained and never used again. Like Ixa's Fake Fuestles. He used them once for Gururu-Fake and never used them again. And the Booster for Ixa's motorcycle. And Decade has to be the worst offender. The entire plot can be counted as an idea they never paid off on.

Mostly what I'd like to see them do is make more movies like The First and The Next. I would love to see one made of Stronger, Amazon, even X. I know The First and The Next (Remakes of the original Kamen Rider and V3) weren't popular, I don't think, but still. An updated version of classic Riders I'd enjoy.

I don't think anything needs changed in Gaim. I'm enjoying it, atleast. Though I would've liked to see Baron get his own Lockseed instead of borrowing Ryouma's Lemon Energy. But storywise I'm loving it.

Recently, I would've liked to see an OOO movie involving the original King OOO as some Mega-Greeed. That would've been fun. But we've had alot of good series' lately storywise.

Except Wizard. Wizard I'd like very much to forget. It needs an entire story overhaul, a reworked (and quieter) belt, and a main character that could actually emote. That'd be nice.

The fact that the Haruto "has no emotion" thing is still around makes me laugh. Maybe actually watch the show.

Ryuki handled its Riders really well. But considering it had 10 riders in its show with each set of characters having intertwining arcs that was well paced, Gaim has slightly more and all its done is that it has been building up to... something?

Upgrade Rant time
Gaim gets like 3 upgrades while the Genesis Driver doesn't get jack shit. Usually, the secondary belt gets an upgrade gimmick that comes out around April/May (Accel,Meteor and Beast's belts all got some sort of super special thing of thier gimmick and even though Birth didn't get a new thing for his he at least got a new form/armor thing) Gaim? If you're not Gaim (Or Zangetsu and Baron because of the Genesis switch), fuck you , you get no upgrades.

Kuuga: The lighting in the show was very bad. In the beginning, it was pretty obvious that a lot of major fight scenes were shot in the late afternoon, pretty much at sunset. Also, with no music to liven the fight scenes, it felt very boring to look at.

Ryuki: [Spoilers] Completely get rid of the story about Kanzaki Yui dying and living until her 20th birthday and just have the remaining riders battle it out. That part of the storyline by itself ruined the series for me. I also didn't like how a Mirror Monster killed Ryuki. It would have been better if Ouja or Zolda killed him instead with him dying in a heroic way.

555: It's perfect the way it is.

Blade: Have the first few episodes show how Kenzaki became Blade, then follow the actual storyline with Episode 1 now being Episode 3 or 4.

Hibiki: Don't call it a Kamen Rider series. Hibiki never had a bike, and the series could easily be rewritten as a Garo spinoff.

Decade: Make it have at least 48 episodes so that he can visit all of the Showa era worlds and actually have a decent ending. Also get rid of the camera motif.

W: It's fine the way it is.

OOO: It's fine the way it is, though I'd prefer if the timing of the Greeds' "deaths" were more spread out in the series as opposed to all dying in the last few episodes.

Fourze: Make Sagittarius become a centaur when he accesses Nova Form. If Scorpion gains scorpion legs in her Nova Form, why doesn't he?

Wizard: Get rid of Rinko. She barely contributed to the storyline and was an awful police officer. The Mage costumes also looked horribly cheap in design. They should have made the blue and green ones look different.

Gaim: Get rid of the dancing component of the series; it served no purpose in the series at all. They could have just made the teams be part of a "gang war" in which they battled using the Invess Games right off the bat.

Yeah, if you want belittling and shit, go to youtube.

Ummm. Yes he did. He totally had a bike. One of the coolest Rider bikes ever in my opinion. This is what bugs me about people who don't watch far enough in to a show before writing it off...

After reading this, I disregarded everything else you had written. You're kidding me if you don't think the final episode wasn't tremendously flawed. OH WELL. Opinions are opinions. Fanboys are fanboys. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have my own guilty pleasures too.

Yup, there was even a part of the story when he had to learn how to drive from Ibuki first. It was very late in the series, but unlike DiEnd for example, Hibiki had a bike.

Besides, a bike doesn't qualify a Rider as a Rider. Most Heisei Riders rarely ever use their bikes anyway. And Beast had a bicycle...

Truth. That's the whole reason behind the beginning of Gaim being centered around street dancers, of course: An unexpectedly clever way of using the word RIDER ironically without having to use the bikes too often.

I think the thing with Gaim is that it's split into different sagas, which kinda works as a double-edged sword. The way I see it, each saga so far as had different antagonists, which means certain characters start getting filtered in and out as time goes along. Unfortunately, it means a lot of characters get shafted, but I still quite like the set up.

EDIT: And to add a bit more of a contribution, I guess with Ryuki, I'd have it end right before the time reversal. Would have been a pretty ballsy way to end a Rider series. I'd also give Tiger more screentime, because for unexplained reasons, I love Tiger and Tojo AS Tiger.

With Faiz, I'd give it an actual ending. It kills me how Faiz had so much potential and they leave the ending ambiguous. With a series that will probably never get a sequel, that's quite frustrating.