Thanks!

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Takkun has some weird dreams.

Not gonna lie, seeing the Orphenoch dance was delightful.

I will have to watch it and Decade eventually - I'm not looking forward to it though :(

Kiva isn't all that bad. You just have to have enough patience to sit through all of the time jumping.

And the ability to not bitch about love triangles.

Which I might add, that I couldn't do the very thing I said one should be able to do. Yet can do the latter. Odd, ain't it?

I could do both. Loved the time jumps and I don't get the hate for love triangles.

Honestly? Same here. I thought the time jumps were really interesting, even if it was pretty annoying that the '86 team barely destroyed any fangire. Plus the love triangles weren't near as bad as people make them out to be.

I'm glad people are more easily entertained than I am - a lot of work (and crippling back pain) went into Kiva. It's just sooo deep in the INOUE ZONE that I can only enjoy it in a masochistic manner.

Nothing to do with time jumping - just batshit writing.

I've watched Paradise Lost now too 'cause why not. It's mostly okay, the runtime keeps it from being too edgy and boring (also Kusaka dies early in the movie, thumbs up for that!) and the take on the world is rather interesting.

Psyga and Orga are cool too, the designs at least.

Definitely not the worst Rider movie I've seen but mostly forgettable.

You know, thinking about it more, it occurs to me in the 6-ish years I've been a Kamen Rider fan, I've heard Kiva referred to as both "s*** Faiz" and "good Faiz", so...

I feel like Kiva's writing is way worse (even though he wrote a vast majority of Kiva too I think it's still worth noting Inoue wrote literally all of Faiz himself), but there are some elements to Kiva that could make someone enjoy it more. Namely that it's WAY less mopey, especially at first, despite the ever-present ~misunderstandings~.

Kiva's comedy is probably one of its biggest redeeming qualities. 753 for life!

Oh, and also Kiva actually has an ending...

W 25-26. The doll.

I forgot how hilarious (and vaguely creepy and ultimately sad) these episodes were. Very well directed, too.