Oh, so it's just the OOO parts that are bad? Good, because I skipped over them until the end team-up bit. :D I was gonna say, too, the Skull bits I thought were really well done, and pushed the character from "cool design" to "Dude I seriously think is awesome." Especially since before that the only parts where the real Skull showed up alive was briefly in Begins Night.

I like the OOO forms that aren't three different colours. Between his detailed deisgn and the three colours he seems very over-designed compared to Double, but that effect is halved when he switched to a one or two coloured combination.

Yeah, the Skull portion of Core were great, can't argue that at all.
I still think you could enjoy OOO. It has the best balance of serious and fun (Out of the series I've seen), and if you can get past the primary villain's annoying quirk, it's really a great series.

Also, a minor point to mention, but Shotaro's actor loves playing the character. So in any crossover Double appears in, you can expect to see him reprise his role, which is always a plus.

Awesome. :D

Except for Movie War Ultimatum.

Also, I happen to love the TaToBa suit. It's one of my favorite main Rider designs.

I dunno if I really like OOO's gimmick though honestly. Something about it just pushes me away.

I should also point out I'm much more into simpler, characterful designs as a general rule, so it's not that I think the suit is bad at all, just that I'm into different looks. Double to me is so cool because it just two colours seperated down the center with sparse silver details, even less black, and red for the eyes and driver to pop. Skull even more since he's almost entirely just black, silver and white for his hat and scarf. And little actual detail.

OOO, TaToBa specifically, is a base colour of black with red, yellow and green in large quantities in a very intricate pattern overtop and the same amount of spares silver details. It just doesn't pull me in immediately.

If you want simpler designs, you want to probably go backward than forwards. Toei keeps making the suits and powers more busy each year to sell toys. Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, and Kabuto all have simple streamlined designs that don't overdo the gimmicks. Also, Agito is the single best Kamen Rider series ever made. Kuuga and Kabuto are very good overall for different reasons. I personally don't like Ryuki, but it has it's fans.

Just watched the first episode of Blade. Not a bad start. There's plenty of enigma and intrigue to get you hooked and it moves along pretty quick establishing everyone.

I like how they capture the undead as well, very cool and I look forward to seeing what abilities the different cards bring.

Started Ryuki yesterday, up to episode 5.

Very cool show, though I feel like I *may* not end up liking it as much as W, but we'll see.

Reminds me a lot of Highlander though. "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE RIDER!" :lol

Ryuki is soooooo good and underrated.