Episode 3 is pretty meh to me as well, but I'd still give the series a go whenever you have a chance. The series is mostly just about having fun with it's concept and it's characters.

But Blade is also pretty good so far, so...yeah.

When you have episodes about nothing that early on then it's really worrying but I actually genuinely enjoyed the second episode of Blade.

Don't worry about male leads. You'll be able to pick out Tachibana/Garren as Libra :lol

And the card concept never made sense to me, but I do like how it's implemented. Gives a character incentive to take out a villain just because it means they also get a new attack or power in doing so.

And I remember the Undead speaking English. I think they drop the gibberish thing.

So Libra is a villain in one show and a Rider in the other with a name from one of the heroes in the other show he is in. MENTAL.

I know after all my hating on OOO that I should be harsher on magic playing cards but come on this is Japan, they have giant monster attacks on a daily basis and half their technology is made out of playing cards, right? At least that is what I got from their animation and superhero stories.

I'm glad they drop the gibberish.

Yeah. It blew Gentaro's mind too in the Net Movies :lol

I never had a problem with magic trinkets. They're just one of those things that I accept will be in a Henshin Hero show. If they're explained, then awesome, if not, I try to not let it phase me.

And yeah, I honestly don't remember the Undead speaking in anything other than Japanese (It'd be odd for them to be speaking English :lol), so they do drop it, but I can't give you a time frame for when.

I don't really see how one episode being a little dull early on says a lot about the series but whatever.

Haha I wanna see these films!

As long as I know they drop it sooner or later I'm not too worried. Especially if they replace it with dericious engrish. :lol

It doesn't but I didn't plan on watching like thirty episode of each series to make up my mind that completely defeats the point, "well I'll pursue this series then!..oh I finished it already." I wanted to give it one or two episodes to decide what to pursue.

Alright, I guess I get it. That's like the opposite of me, honestly. If I start a series, I refuse to not finish it. It'll have to do something truly horrible to make me completely drop it.

I only started them because they were my suggestions as to watch next and it was a choice between two.

I think the only Kamen Rider series I've actually dropped, not just fail to finish (Like Amazon), was Faiz.

Back to my regularly scheduled broadcasting.

OOO 33: I really like Mighty Morphin Eiji, yeah the effects ain't great but I like the sense of power you get from his lack of control. It gives a more fantastical sense to the powers that somehow a lot of Kamen Rider shows seem to miss, instead reducing form changes to just feeling like a change of clothes.

I also love the message 'never trust a guy who owns a theme park' :lol But being serious for a minute, why did he have all these nets set up? It was Eiji's choice to bring his friends this weirdo just invited Eiji, did he plan to trap Eiji and himself in a net?

I'm really disappointed in Date as well, getting defeated by a load of bin bags.

Well, I just finished up Ultimatum, and that was pretty awful. Ridiculous pacing, ass-and-twinkles female characters, and unnecessary, half-assed cameos really dragged it down.

Don't worry, everyone has that problem with Blade at first. Kotaro and Kenzaki are by far the worst two.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

We just watched the Wizard Fourze movie and it was quite good. It was a little bit on the long side, but it was funny, it had some great action to it, and the story was decent. I'm not sure I buy the whole time travel aspect, but it worked for what it was and the ending was just down right hilarious. My only complaint really is that Nadeshiko's sound effects got a little bit annoying after a while.

Not sure what to think about Inazuman though, as it just seemed out of left field. Is Toei trying to bring back the 70s completely?

Couldn't sleep so I watched Blade 17

Mutsuki's belt is the creepiest henshin device ever. And apparently it also gives him some sick hops! He also seems to share some similarity to Kenzaki in that he wants to be a hero, although specifically a Rider.

You'd think that somehow after the whole shoplifting incident, Kenzaki would pick up on the kid he befriended being Mutsuki sooner. And apparently when Mutsuki is Leangle, he has that "Ultimate Kamen Rider" idea driven into his head. Interesting...

So Fourze 36: was better than it probably should have been even if it was cringeworthy in how corny it was in places.

The fact that God can play music that both drains life energy and allows them to find the magic doodad makes him a pretty major player, even if he was reduced to basically a glorified monster of the week as well.

Leo's ability to use old Switches is kinda awesome, if you don't think on how much that contradicts the rules of the show too much and he's at least lasted longer than two episodes so far so by this point of the show he counts as a major villain.

Remember the days when the identity of Scorpion was an interesting mystery spread out over many episodes? And how the Horoscopes were bigged up as these unique and extremely powerful monsters? Yeah they sure dropped that huh...

OOO 34: I kinda wish sticking random medals together to see what happens had been a more central part to the series. I mean I know it has but the show never really made any deal out of the random medals most of the time, Eiji just rolled with it with only really the Combos played up as anything special. This episode sort of almost gave me a Ben 10 feel when the seemingly random combination turned out to be key in the way Ben would get the alien he didn't want but then find out that it was actually the one he needed all along. Still I think MMPR Eiji is my favourite form, shitty effects aside, he really reminds me of Hollow Ichigo and I just think it's really cool.

Plus it's a pretty cool character turn to know Eiji is basically using Ankh to support his own idealism, he isn't so damaged that he is like emo and useless but Eiji is an extremely flawed hero in a very interesting way and Eiji almost embraces his problems which makes him seem so human and just generally likeable without it being forced like so many toku protagonists who are just perfect in every way as the show basically screams at you to like them and even if you don't everyone in the entire show falls in love with them anyway.

It was a pretty great episode for Ankh as well, I'm going to be perfectly honest and say I cannot stand Ankh (Although I don't think I'm meant to) and despite he and Eiji being the core duo I find their relationship completely uninteresting. I see nothing wrong with this kind of dynamic but I like the dynamic to feel like it's moving forwards and progressing, I like the tsundere to soften and for you to see their friendship form right before your very eyes ala Jack and Sky from SPD.

And it may have taken 34 episodes but I think Ankh finally showed a moment of vulnerability, admitting he needed Eiji's help and genuinely this time rather than his usual sly asshole insult way of saying it, and literally risking his own life to help Eiji even if it was ultimately to serve him this is the closest Ankh has come to selfless which is both a huge step for his character and a huge step in general since Greed are driven by their own personal desires. I hope this means Ankh's character will actually start to grow now as I have found his 34 episodes as a pouting Topman model a thorn in my side, especially when he's juxtaposed with so many other great characters like Eiji, Brotou and Date.

Fourze 37: Enter Aquarius the water bender with the bodacious rack who was actually really shit but had bullshit healing powers so she didn't die in the first five minutes. I also like that despite in the early episode Kengo's unexplored illness is finally cured and they don't bring it up again.

It was a pretty fun episode, good to see Libra finally get called out on his scumminess but overall eh...the show really has gone downhill since Meteor appeared, I mean sure it's still fun and what have you but in the early days it seemed to actually be about something and was actually trying to raise above its own sentimental silliness but for the last fifteen or so episodes I feel like we're just going through the same arc over and over again and it only isn't filler, in a sense, because these aren't just monsters of the week they are meant to be big bads even if the show does nothing to convince us of such.

There is nothing wrong with being fun, especially given why this was made, but this series was better than 'just fun' once and it just all feels like a downgrade now.

right about to Watch the DC verstion of Wizard and Fourze Movie Subbed By Tv Nihon

I enjoyed that a lot so if you've watched Fourze and Wizard it'll probably be even better for you.

Agito 7--Well, this show's in no hurry to get anywhere, is it? Wondering what the Unknown are up to? Well, we're bloody well not going to tell you because that would get in the way of Shouichi being a good-natured doofus with his adopted family and Gills alternately lying on a gurney or being sad about how little he's really done in three episodes time, which usually results in him going for a lie down. He is the least motivated Rider ever--I swear to God.

Oh and the G3 project is suspended. I wish I cared.

I may have to skip ahead some--this show is slow to the point of being lapped by glaciers. I appreciate it as an artifact of "we're still trying to work out what this Kamen Rider thing is supposed to be in the 2000s," but actually watching it is like watching friggin' paint dry, but with much less dramatic tension.

yea i know i watched and loved fourze due to i watch it while it was still airing and the subs were still being done for it and i love wizard and this one was the best rider team film yet i think due to they drop the hole ferderation x thing

Nothing is explained until the end.

The show is just a collection of questions, the biggest being ''why should I care?'' And it's never answered.

OOO 35: Given Ankh's obvious homosexuality and general flamboyance I thought he would have enjoyed the fashion show. I'm not saying gay people can't be badass - just look at Ichijou but it's really hard to appreciate a spindly Japanese man in eye makeup as an aggressive thug.

I do like windows into the Detective though, it's nice to remember that the body Ankh is possessing is a person with his own personality, hopes and dreams. And now he's woken up! Supernatural doesn't handle possession this well these days even though demons are their main enemy.

I also thought it was really cool to see Eiji use the power axe combined with his other form powers, even if it was with the blandest of forms. And Date became even more awesome this episode, fighting with a bullet in his head, literally.

Although I honestly don't care if Bug is trying to bring back Gamel and Mezul, I have not missed them at all and honestly completely forget they were in the show. I guess that says everything about how shit these villains are. Kyoryuger seemed to base their villains entirely on this show.

I've been meaning to ask this for a while but forget, what is with the Greed and their cloths?

"Paint drying" it is, then! :)

It's a visual cue that morphed into a plot point.

I can't wait to see what comes of this then.

Not a lot.

I think Uva uses it to try and resurect Mezul. I don't even know if that's a plot point. Just that at some point they do more than flap in the background.

Fourze 38 was an absolutely awful episode. It tried to be all melodramatic but it just fell completely flat. Who the fuck cares if Elleen was defeated in battle? She was a selfish, shallow bitch until about one minute of screentime before she "died", I hate when shows assume that melodrama is a worthy substitute for actual depth and assume it means they don't actually have to spend the time making us care.

It was completely superfluous any way, as Gen did some ridiculous dramatic look at the sky while the rain poured on him you'd assume she died or something but all that happened is Virgo took away her memories of the event and sent her on her way. Why the last two haven't been sent to the Dark Nebula is any ones guess. The show felt like it had become a little tired and stuck in its way at times but now it's starting to feel like the show has just given up.

Gen is actually starting to annoy me as well, his sentimental attitude has become completely flat also. It used to be about something, it used to have actual depth, now he seems to be dissolving into another perfect protagonist unphased by anything good at everything and I just find that really boring. Especially as I'm watching this alongside OOO which gives the core trio (not including Ankh) lots of depth and interesting character turns and arcs.

I swear the two shows are forever destined to move in opposite directions, whenever OOO starts getting better Fourze goes downhill. If we're generalising I loved Fourze's first third but I haven't really enjoyed much since, apart from standalone bits on and off and I hated OOO's first half but have for the most part been loving it since Date was introduced.

Also what is Leo like in love with the chairman or something?

I am glad that you're starting to enjoy OOO more.
Shame that you're liking Fourze less and less, though. I personally enjoyed both series for different reasons.

Gentaro's attitude did become a flanderization of what it originally was, seemingly way too bloated of his original intention to be friends with the troubled students to just "FRIENDSHIP!!!!" x10

And Leo's devotion to the chairman was...Yeah. It was odd :lol

I still think the OOO universe and general mythos and lore and what have you is absolute pants but whereas Kuuga had one character to keep me watching in the form of Ichijou, OOO has three characters to keep me watching and actually because there are three of them I even actually genuinely enjoy the show most of the time.

I don't hate Fourze but the first third of the show was really interesting, it made full use of its setting, had great action sequences and really rose above its inherent silly shallowness to have depth, heart and ultimately meaning. Everything that rose it above its inherent mediocrity however has been stripped away thread by thread since Meteor was introduced and now they are running out of time they are ripping it out in chunks and the stuff that is left behind just really isn't that good.

Yeah, this got taken to pretty ridiculous extremes, too. By the time of the big summer movie he was openly weeping because he couldn't befriend a space station. Yes, it was a sentient space station, but he didn't know that until the last quarter of the film.

Episode 36 of OOO was pretty hit and miss, if you expect me to care about a stupid rubber arm shivering in the rain then you are having a fucking giggle that is absolutely ridiculous.

What was also pretty dumb is in the last episode Bug had to go out and get more cores to bring the Greed back to life but then he doesn't use any that he collected so they aren't too strong when they come back. I guess everything he did in the last episode was pointless then...

Gamel and Mezul coming back was pointless in general anyway, it's pretty clear they aren't needed and as Bug put them at a deliberate disadvantage, the first thing they did was get their asses kicked...repeatedly.

MMPR form is also considerably less interesting now Eiji is inexplicably in control of it. Although we got some interesting insights into his character this episode to make up for it.

Also don't Ankh's and Mezul's helmets have the same power?

The chemistry and bromance between Brotou and Date is great though and was where the episode hit, aside from the Eiji focus, as always.

You're supposed to care about the character, not the prop.
Or are you just the guy at the theater screaming that Godzilla is just a guy in a suit? :lol

Anyway, I think the Shachi/Killer Whale medal lets him fire water from his head? I'm not entirely certain...He uses that medal so sparingly I can't remember...

But I don't care about Ankh and I care even less when a poorly greenscreened prop is supposed to be sympathetic as it hides from the cold and rain.

Oh? Well last time he used it it let him see through walls.

I'm honesty inclined to say you're not supposed to feel bad for Ankh considering the show overall. I'd hazard a guess that that scene was just to show how hard it is for Ankh without a body, hence feuling his anger and resentment since he's been kicked out.

I guess that is lucky then because I think he's the worst character on the show. Then again all the Greed are rubbish.

Ankh, and the Greed overall left little of an impression on me. They functioned as villains, but that's it. I remember Eiji, Brotou and Date just fine as well as Birthday man, but Ankh is sometimes interesting, mostly eh. The rest of the Greed only enter my mind when they're mentioned.

To me the Greeed were just there as villains. the only Greeed that left a slight impression on me was Uva mostly because he did whatever he could to survive, even when he had no physical form.

I liked Ankh the most of the Greed. His assholish nature presented a nice counter to Eiji, which also allowed for the secondary Rider to not be the walking asshole of the series, making Date a lot more endearing because of it.