Aouwwgh... Myuuuugh... Fffttt ...

Neeeeyyuu....

Good luck to you.

So what exactly do you not like about it? The main two complaints I hear are 1. the story gets kind of ADHD towards the end and jumps around a lot, which...I guess we'll see, and 2. His final form is used too much, which actually sounds good to me - whenever a Kamen Rider uses their weaker forms instead of the strongest form I'm always like "why not just save yourself the trouble?"

Are there any other issues?

Anyways, Kiva 2 - God I love that OP. The two timelines thing was really enjoyable here, I'm excited to see this become a thing throughout the series. I'm just confused as to why they already seem to have dropped the mask and goggles thing, and why he decided to test his fish paint on a completed violin, as opposed to a piece of scrap wood... Those are minor things I can easily overlook though.

My main problem with Kiva is that the entire show feels like one gigantic mess. While this isn't very clear in the beginning, it becomes more and more apparent as the show goes on that none of the writers seem to care all that much about the details of the show and are only interested in the big picture. This results a number of plot holes and a lot of interesting backstory and lore bits not really getting much focus and ultimately going nowhere. This is especially bad compared to some other shows because, as you can tell in the first episode, history and lore seems to be a big part of Kiva as a whole.

Wataru himself certainly doesn't help matters. No matter what's going on around him, he never really asks important questions and doesn't really do all that much to try and figure out the mystery that is his life outside of a few things here and there. He gives me the impression that he really wants nothing to do with anything going on in this show but the story and everyone else around him keep forcing him to keep going.

All and All, Kiva reminds me of Wizard. Its alright on its on but its obvious that the show could have been so much more if the writers cared enough to work out the fine details.

Which is especially troubling because "the writers" is actually like, just one guy.

But yeah, pretty much what macblo says. It's not too apparent at the beginning, but the writing can get really inconsistent.

I also really disliked all the relationship drama and several characters were extremely unlikable or pointless.

Not to say this to try to influence your opinion, of course. You should form your own opinion on the show. Personally I was enjoying it until the early 20's when I felt its problems really started piling up.

Macblo nailed it. I'd add that repetition (marked by a single violin piece and a weak sauce "punk" song - get used to them, you'll be hearing them a LOT) gets tiresome and the sad fact that the 80's timeline, though more interesting, is paradoxically almost superfluous to the 00's plot, other than introducing the MotW Otoya somehow failed to stop.

Inoue Zone - plotting while shitfaced and angry at the ladies.

Oh I'm just asking so I can prepare myself properly. I'm usually willing to give things the benefit of the doubt, though. I can recognize their faults, but despite that, I still enjoyed Ninninger and Ghost, because I focused more on the stuff that I enjoyed about them than the stuff I didn't enjoy.

That right... with Ryuki, Faiz, Kabuto,...
But ìf you watched Kuuga, Blade, ooo,... they can't just use power up like ordinary.

One could argue Wizard wants to see if he doesn't need to spend as much mana and W can't directly transform into Extreme. Other than that, eh

Costumes ain't cheap, yo!!

And this is why I like it when ultimate forms have some kind of built-in drawback. It raises the stakes of using all that power while also highlighting how big the threats have gotten.