So that's it, thanks for the info.

So Kiva isn't all that? Wow... So whats up next? :lol

OOO is always a solid choice.
Haven't watched anything prior to Kiva besides Blade, so I have no clue.

I suppose Den-O is popular for a reason...

Try Hibiki. More people need to give that show a chance.

I intend to. I love the suit designs.

09 and 10 of W down, or Sweets!

Akiko still gets on my nerves but it was nice seeing her come into her own these episodes, especially when she WWE beat Sweets down with that wooden chair. And we learned more about Begins Night.
Mostly what I enjoyed seeing was my first look at Terror, and he is a true Terror. He looks like he could do damage and unlike Fourze and OOO I didn't have to wait until episode 40 to see him!
Shotaro was even better in this episode. I loved him already, but it was nice seeing him do more than over-react to Akiko and boss Philip :lol

.. I sense a disturbance in the Force .. I bad mouthed Shotaro.. Suzu, put the crowbar down!

If you watch Hbiki, you need to suffer through the first 15 episodes before anything happens, so be prepared to watch paint dry. After that, the remaining 15 episodes are great and then you might as well just stop there. The only things that really make Hibiki worth watching is its atmosphere and cinematography, both are which are gone when the new writers take over.

The only series better than Kiva are W, Black, Blade, and Ryuki. So if you don't like Kiva...

That wasn't Suzu, it was me.

I don't know why but the Sweets arc is one of the arcs I remember the best, must be due to the sheer crazyness.

There was alot of craziness :lol Terror, Taboo, Nasco, and Sweets all in two episodes!

Kamen Rider Gaim episode 2

Oh Kota

I really like how kota was working on his henshin pose. I also liked how he would use any excuse to use the Sengoku driver. Need to make deliveries in a tiny vehicle? HENSHIN! Someone needs paint cans brought up to them? HENSHIN! A kid stuck in a tree? HENSHIN!

Again, I really liked the Invess design for this episode, its a multi-colored deer that harkens back to the Deer Undead from Blade. And.... it ate the Strawberry lockseed.

We also get to see Kota using Gaim better and Pineapple arms.

So when the Mutated Deer Invess got destroyed, did the strawberry lockseed that it ate get destroyed too? Or are there more then one of the same type of Lockseed?

Great Episode.

Heck yeah, despite being a rather silly dopant, the story moved forward a lot.

Crazy in more ways than one. And Akiko did more than scream and beat people with her shoe, which was a nice change.

She improves after the movie, and the Fang introductory arc.

Yep and yep, respectively.

I'd go with that. OOO was my first Rider series and I still love it. I really can't decide if W or OOO is my favorite, both of them were great in so many ways...

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You've learned how awesome he is now, so I guess I'll let you go this time.

How gracious of you :lol

And this, students, is whats called a biased perspective.
It presents the opinion of one as an irrefutable fact. It doesn't allow the situation of "What if someone didn't like Kiva?" because it's blind to the notion that different people have different tastes.

What? You mean the OPINION I made is NOT a fact? THAT IS UNLAWFUL!!!! :eek:

I'll agree with you on stopping after 29, but I think the start of the show is a really engaging slice of life story based around Asumu.

I agree again, but I'd also add the original series, V3, X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, Super-1, Black RX, Kuuga, Agito, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Decade, OOO, Fourze, and Wizard to the "better than Kiva" list.

And maybe Faiz.

:p

If you knew what the word 'opinion' meant, I'd be inclined to rescind what I said.
If you knew what the word 'hyperbole' meant, you'd know why you're dooming Kiva to anyone who might not like it as much as you.

You essentially throw your opinion as solid fact. No way around it.

What about Shin or G? :p

They aren't series.

Yeah... I missed that part. :o

I've yet to see Hibiki, but what happens after the midseries change, anyway? What does the new staff do to make it go downhill?

Watched Decade up to World of Agito, gonna stop here because I actually intend to watch Den-O unspoiled. Is it true that Decade's ending is total garbo?

It basically just turns into Kamen Rider Generic. Real Hibiki was an incredibly original show with a very unique aesthetic and tone. A lot of it took place up in the mountains and forests and featured Hibiki and the other Oni fighting creatures that could almost pass for realistic monsters (in design, if not execution). A lot of the focus was on interpersonal relationships, though, especially Asumu learning to become a more confident and self-assured adult by exposure to the various Oni.

Then episode 30 happens and Hibiki is fighting a weasel monster with a wheel motif in one of the ten Toei stock locations while Kiriya comes in and starts creating the exact same interpersonal drama that dominated Faiz. It's honestly not objectively bad (outside of the incredibly misogynistic Shuki arc), but so much of what made the show unique was lost in order to make it more like the other, more profitable shows. And yeah, ultimately the show did become more recognizably Kamen Rider at that point, but it did so at the expense of being Hibiki.

Ending? What ending?

Decade has pretty much no story, and as such no true ending, but yeah, it's "ending" in Movie Taisen is rather bad.

I have a quesgion. Can the Riders in Blade use each other's cards in the series proper? Like Blade using a Club suit card?

I might try Hibikii after I finish Decade, is Kabuto a good one? The suit designs look great, and I want to order a figuarts of one the riders but I don't wanna buy a figuarts character that I have no idea about.

Personally, I loved Kamen Rider Kabuto. The main characters (sans Hoyori) were likeable and fun, and the action was pretty awesome. The story took its rime aa bit too much, but I finished it quite satisfied.

I'm the total minority on this, but I tried Kabuto and could not stand it. Largely because of Kabuto himself being so God damn horrible and pretentious. Minor spoilers about the first few episodes, but:

Kamen Rider has a habit of saying a lot of what doesn't need to be said, and Kabuto is basically this trend at it's utter worst in regards to Tendou, wo is Kabuto. Tendou is a very skilled fighter and quickly learns how to be Kabuto. That's not a problem. The problem is him literally believing he is God's gift to mankind, and the amount of shear ludicrous pretentiousness and forced drama that comes form him constantly saying it. (his name literally translates to Walking teh path to heaven or some bullshit) Because, you know, the audience could never figure out he was a cool guy without him telling us over and over that he literally cannot do any wrong. The only worthwhile character is Kagami who's the total opposite, but he doesn't do anything for a while and is likewise kid of heavy-handed in his character.

People try to defend him as a "troll" (because they are the most endearing of people, you know) but he's not, because he believes he is a God, and little in the show stops him. He's in dire need of a wake up call and never gets one. He's a smug asshat who would have made an excellent villain rider if he had ever been killed by someone with an actual personality.

Also, his finisher is hella boring, and the main gimmick of the riders and enemies made for hit-and-miss action. As for the rest of the show, I found literally every other character besides butthead Kabuto and Kagami to be boring and forgettable, in that I have forgotten them.

I do even remember what the villains did.

Yep.

Kabuto's okay. It's a pretty solid series for the most part, but I didn't think it was anything very special.

Here is the thing though, I did not post any links stating such. I posted and what I post is and always will be my opinion unless there is something to back it up as fact. Nothing against you, but this is something many on the internet fail to understand. Just because you make a statement does not mean you are passing it around as a fact. It is under your user name, therefore making it your opinion.

Kain, Matrix, and everyone else to while I'm here, ease off. No reason to turn it into a fight :p

W Ep 11. I felt bad for Kouhei. Took justice into his own hands, but he did it because they sent his sister into a coma. Now we'll see who this Virus is, and how someone got into the INDEX. o-o I thought it existed inside Philip's mind.

Maybe I should clarify. The INDEX doesn't exist inside Philip's mind, Philip simply has the ability to access it via his subconscious. To put it bluntly, the INDEX isn't in Philip's mind so much as Philip's mind is in the INDEX... if that makes any sense. :lol

It's like visiting a library. :p

Exactly. :D

Sure why not :lol

Yeah, Philip is the only one to be able to access it. If you ever wondered why the book he reads has no words, it's because he's actually reading the information from the Gaia Library (another name for the index) in his head, and the book is just a blank surface so he isn't distracted.

He's "imagining" the words on the pages, so to speak. And much like Philip's conciousness travels into W when they transform, his conciousness sort of "steps in" to the library during lookups.