My least liked season, Decade. ONORE DIKEIDO! Shinkengers why? What really hooked me into watching the whole show however was the theme. It was an interesting departure from Sentai themes. I finally jumped in the rabbit hole for my FIRST piece of Rider merch is going to be SS W that I have on pre-order...

The big 10, Decade. I'd known about Den-O and followed Kiva through out(watching random episodes) but opportunity struck and I was able to, plus hearing the idea of the show and the theme had me sold.

And I don't regret it one bit.

Faiz was the first series I ever saw. I watched the show when I got high speed internet for the first time back in 2004 when Blade was airing. I knew what Sentai and Kamen Rider were but I had never actually seen either one. I was absolutely taken with how different Faiz seemed to be from Power Rangers. I managed to watch the entire show in about three days. (I was 15 back then, marathoning a show that fast is something I don't have the energy to do these days)

It's not a perfect series by any means but because it's my first and because the stories seemed so intense, even in comparison to a lot of things from today, it's always had special place in my heart.

Well, I actually posted on this thread 4 years ago, but since it's back on the first page I figure I can give a bit of a different perspective. 2012 me was ignorant. 2016 me is... well I can type something new anyway.

I'm something of a special case because I was basically committed to watching everything before I'd even started. Being vaguely familiar with the franchise for maybe about a year, I kind of knew I'd like it and, what do you know, I'm still here now.

The very first episode I ever saw of Kamen Rider was OOO's first episode, since it was the show airing at the time, and following that I watched the first couple episodes of Kuuga. But the series I consider to really be my "first" is Ryuki.

The drama and the characters of that show hooked me like crazy and I distinctly remember downing 5 episode chunks of it in one sitting on several occasions. I was also watching OOO, first playing catch-up, then as it aired, but Ryuki was the show that really got me irrevocably addicted to Kamen Rider.

I liked OOO just fine at the time, but in retrospect I wish I'd have appreciated it more. Even once I caught up I'd frequently let several episodes pile up before sitting down to watch them, which isn't something I do nearly as much now. I thought it was good, but Ryuki was way more exciting to me.

And it's a shame because I think you can easily make the case that OOO is one of the best shows out there (and I have seen it made!), but it took till watching some other shows and some reminiscing to really start noticing just how good it was.

Even now it's not a big favorite or anything, but after watching Den-O and Go-Busters (both of which I adore) and realizing all four of these shows were from the same writer, I started to see that OOO shares a lot of what I like about the other series Kobayashi wrote.

Still haven't watched Dragon Knight though. Not that I'm being an elitist! I just haven't had the urge to yet.

That was a little more rambling than intended so thanks in advance to anyone who actually read all of that.

For me it was Kiva, watched it when it was airing. I knew very little of kamen rider and only found out about it through related video suggestions for sentai videos. It was a big change for me because I never had watch a live action japanese show before to my knowledge, so I was a bit scared. I remember seeing a Blade amv and a few fight scenes from Kiva. Then one day I decided to watch it so I started on episode 13 or 14, the one Rook first appeared in before he had his memories back. I started there because it was the most recent episode and I was confused because of the split story but I enjoyed it. I still have not seen episodes 5 to 12 but I still love it even with the crap that happened in it. Because of it the September of that year I started Den-O, then Kabuto that November. I first kamen rider toy was a Final Form Ride Kiva toy, not the greatest toy but still.

I'm sorry for the big message but I really do love Kiva and without it I don't know if I would of ever got into tokusatsu.

Same. I got someone to watch OOO and I always thought the series was average until looking back and rewatching some moments showed how much I under appreciated the show. I kinda watched while looking back at the greatness of W and looking forward to Fourze afterwards that was heavily praised. It feels really specially flawed. I remember fondly watching the show but there are a lot of problems with the show like not explaining Hina, not going more in depth to Eiji's back story and nothing happening in the middle of the show that make me not appreciate OOO for what it was.

Mine was Fourze. It was good all around imo

My rider series was OOO and to this day it's my favorite. I just loved the whole medal, animal motif and the fact that all the greeds yummy's represented a sin, like gluttony. I also loved that OOO could mitch match his forms which gave a multitude of combinations. Also the characters were so good that I loved all of them and I was sad when Kazari, Ankh etc. died

Can't remember if I posted in this before, I don't think I did, too lazy to double check.

Anyways, first show I watched anything from was Wizard. Fourze was the first season I watched start to finish, since I got into the franchise when Wizard first started airing.

My first one was Gaim. I knew about the toys beforehand but it wan't until I was reading Let's Speak English and Mary Cagle, the author/artist, suggested it that I actually decided to find it and watch it. It only took me 3 days after starting it to finish it. Since then I've only caught up on Ghost and and got halfway through Drive but I keep meaning to watch Decade, W, and a few others at some point.