Yeah, but that's been done before. Look at Ryuki. It's a common thing in japanese fiction.

FINALLY you decide to get back to watching Blade. FINALLY.
I can rest easy knowing that Kenzaki has a potential new fan. =P

I have not watched Ryuki yet, but good to know.

I.......I can't agree with this at all.

Couldn't disagree more. I think Blade's ending is one of the best in the entire Rider franchise. Kenzaki is asked to choose between saving the life of his best friend or saving the world and he decides to go for option #3 - sacrificing his humanity so that Hajime can live. It's really emotionally powerful, especially when Hajime realizes what Kenzaki is planning and tries to stop him. The ending and the lengths Kenzaki is willing to go to to protect his friends is one of the big things that makes him one of my favorite Riders and that puts Blade pretty high up on my favorite shows list.

In fact, I'd love to see Blade get a US version that keeps the plot largely intact but makes Chalice female to make the Blade/Chalice relationship more of a romance. Doing that and keeping the same ending would make it even more emotionally powerful.

I will never understand the "Blade starts off slow" thing. I thought it was amazing from episode 1. Blade is the 2nd best KR series ever made IMO.

Yeah, I don't understand the "Blade starts slow" thing either, I thought it was great start to finish.

It really started as good as any episode of Faiz ever was. It just got better from there.

Also, NemyPred, Missing Ace does not offer a better ending. A less depressing one perhaps, but not better. The whole movie just feels "wrong" to me, like the writer was trying to compress 20 episodes of story-arcs and plot-points into 90 minutes. Everything is just kind of glossed over.

So without further ado, Wall Of Text, engage!

I also kind of admire the series' ending to the series for how ballsy it was. Ryuki and (mostly) Faiz have a decent reputation for their non-endings, but with Blade, it works. The show sets up an epic confrontation between two friends, with the world at stake, and then Kenzaki says "no".

Blade, doesn't have any really apparent themes, but I'd wager one of them is that Humanity, on the whole, is nice. Hajime and the Tarantula Undead both grow to like the less savage traits of Humans. Garren's love for Sayoko is what allowed him to fight in the first place. Mutsuki's girlfriend was, on top of how much Leangle sucks, the only thing keeping him from being a straight villain.

So it's only natural that when the time comes for them to fight, Joker is implied to want to be sealed, so as to save the world, and Kenzaki is still trying to find a way to save the world that lets Hajime live. In the end, he does something truly selfless for the sake of helping his friend, and that's the end, barring one or two depressing shots of Hajime Hallucinating Kenzaki sitting on a bench.

That's why Blade's ending is great.

Switchblade & Fish Sandwich (btw, that's an awesome name)

I certainly see & respect what you guys are saying. Personal tastes differ & I just can't see Blade in that light.

Now just in-case I break the internet with the above comment. let me balance it out.
*rage rage rage* *stomp stomp stomp* *rage rage rage*
Ok, we should be good now. :cool: