As one of those three people Kiwami mentioned, I'd just like to mention that I still think a lot of the hate Ghost gets is really undeserved. It definitely has enough issues to keep it from being one of the greats (mostly later on), but it doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for all the things it does well.

that's kind of how I felt about Ryuki. hahaha

I didn't hate it but during parts of it it felt like a grind.

the first (maybe 10?) episodes of Blade felt that way too. It took a while for the Blade story and characters to grow on me.


....and the woman who manned the computer searching for undead looking almost exactly like my Ex-GF didn't make me like the Blade show any better. Lol. I got irrationally angry pretty much every time I saw her.


I have like 3 episodes left of V3 and I don't know whether to continue on to Amazon or X,..or watch Hibiki, which is the next in my Heisei line up to watch. (I bounce between Showa/Heisei/Neo-Heisei)

Looking forward to Gaim, Fourze, Kabuto, Black and Black RX, and Decade. But I'm trying to get to them 'in order',...which means a bunch of others are ahead of them in line

Strangely enough I was in love with Blade during the first half, but as soon as Mutsuki became a thing I started to lose that passion.

I left with like 5 episodes still to watch before the end and have since finished 2 different Rider-shows in their entirety. It's really weird since I loved the first half that people apparently hate but the second half that is supposed to be awesome just turned me off. I will finish the show eventually but still.

But I'm on a Showa-streak currently and I enjoy it, I will start Amazon today.

Basically this, Ghost had a lot of great ideas, and sometimes they're executed pretty well, but they never last long, so it gets kind of frustrating at times.

Gotcha~

Thanks, everyone~

The first several episodes have been rather...boring! The Kaijin are marginally interesting, but it gets painfully repetitive after 5 or 7 episodes! Even Tachibana Tobei feels awkward, as if they don't know what to do with him and shove him in simply due to precedent! Basically relegated to comic relief and main-character-who-gets-targeted-just-so-a-non-Rider-can-be-targeted-and-make-threat-seem-more-real! Over the course of several Rider shows, he has had several different rolls and different friends, and never seems to have the same job! Didn't he own a coffee shop in X?

Does the show get better after Titan's first defeat? The first half feels like a chore rather than fun!

Yes. The next commander, General Shadow, changes the pace quite a bit and once Black Satan falls you're in for a real treat, I the Delza Army episodes are great IMO.

And you can look forward to the last couple of episodes in particular... they are really cool.

I had the same issues as you; Stronger’s start really isn’t the best.

Five episodes into Hibiki and I'm enjoying it so much. I just feel so happy when I watch this show; I really do love everything about it.

good to hear I was thinking about starting Hibiki myself.

I finished up v3 last night and couldn't decide what to watch next. I watched some Dairanger and I watched one episode of Showa Amazons, the theater special.

Pretty wild to see the resemblance to the new Amazons series that came out a couple years ago. The slo-mo leap through the air that ended in a head slice that was pouring out "blood" was definitely reminiscent of the new Amazons. As was the way he really yells the word, "AMMAAZZONNNSS!!"

Since I just finished V3 though I was thinking of jumping to a Heisei or Neo-Heisei next and Hibiki was next on the Heisei chopping block.

It takes me so much longer to get through Showa era series. It's not that they're not good but since they seem so much more 'monster of the week' instead of serialized like the newer ones, I tend to not binge-watch the Showa era shows like I do the new ones.

I do get an absurd kick seeing Tobei Tachibana in all these Showa Rider shows though. It's a weird continuity for sure, he's a cool character however.

If it helps, Amazon is the shortest Rider series ever at only 24 episodes.