Loved it when it came out because I was caught up in the hype and the show was very popular when it aired. Years later, I don't hate it but feel like there are better ones out there and it was the beginning of forcefully trying to keep the hype alive for as much as they can. That said, being the toku trivia lover that I am I love the guest appearances by Murai who went on to be Kuuga in Decade after the movie, Morimoto who played Chalice in Blade appear in a small but meaningful role, and Takeda as Otoya.

Kugga slaps, it's quite good so far
 

Kugga slaps. Like I gotta say kugga himself Is pretty much the standard for the Morden rider all though I do kinda wish ichijjo ( hope I spelled it right) had his own rider form, like. Kamen rider tantei Or something.

Glad you're enjoying my favorite Rider! And yeah, I will never not say that Ichijo was the first Secondary Rider, haha.

Planning on watching every single heisei/rewia rider season on episode 28 of kugga, only 1,112 to go.

That is complete Riderman erasure and I do not appreciate it.

Riderman is considered the main one. It doesn't make sense, but he counts as forth main rider, and without that, the entire Showa timeline goes to hell. But on the other hand, then the title of the first secondary "unarmored rider" should belong to Taki from the original show, whose updated version is Ichijo. But the fearless policeman may be the first of the Heisei era.

I think the reason riderman counts is because back then there were way less riders in each series so it was easy to just count all of them main riders. To increase the numbers maybe?

More likely. And this is another reason to scold Toei for not including Tackle in the list of riders. Yes, she died and didn't have her faceplate. But this is also true for Riderman.

Yeah it stinks tackle doesn't count.

Anyway planning to watch kugga from ep30-40 wish me luck :)