White can work if it's properly accented. Gold is a great accent for white. Lots of colours are good accents for white. But Eternal's design makes no sense. It has no focus or purpose. Is he supposed to look sophistacted and clean with that white? Practical and military-esque with the Maximum Drive slots looking like pouches? Exciting and stylish with the flames? Or dark and evil with his black, billowing cape? He's really a list of don'ts for character design. He's cluttered with conflicting aethetics and poor colourscheme. (white and black in even doses accented by metallic blue and yellow eyes?)

If Eternal ditched the Maximum Drive slots, turned the cape white (with some internal colour like gold or blue) swapped the flame cuffs for regular coloured ones and dialed back the crest... he'd still look meh, but he'd be salvagable. Especially if they ditched his stupid Sonic eyes and went for regular eyes, maybe smaller and angled slightly.

It... really stings that Eternal got a whole movie and not Skull.

I mean, Skull is sleek and suave and Eternal is... a loser.

So...a white W suit?

To start. If they wanted a cool looking white rider they could have done so much better than what they did.

While true, I don't think the overall look of Eternal is all that bad tbqh. Certain aspects, especially the flames, are kinda eh...but the overall silhouette isn't all that bad.

Anyways, about to start episode 18 of Ryuki, which is quickly starting to rival W as my favorite Rider series I've seen to date. There are a lot of interesting characters, I love all of the different riders and their designs. It's got a nice, dark mood and feel to it (though at least at this point it isn't near as dark as some have said it was, then again I'm not even halfway through yet), the theme song and opening are fantastic as well (though I do think my favorite is still W Boiled Extreme).

I think this series also more than any of the others I have watched feels like a show intended for an older audience. Like I honestly can't imagine kids tuning in on Saturday morning to watch this, it seems like something that would be on at night for an older crowd.

Do you even know what the hell the term emo means?

Secondly, Kiva has this thing called CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.

He is not the same person at the end of the series as he started out to be. That is something many series seem to lack with the main hero at times. Many times they are a hero at the beginning and still a hero in the end no matter what.

Thank you!

This.

speaking of which, episodes 37 and 38 of Kiva

Everyone's identity is revealed! and Wataru finally got to see his mom. I found it weird how a few episodes ago she was saying how she wanted to see him, and now she's pushing him away, andTaiga...you do NOT grip your mother's throat like that! The Zanbat sword was pretty cool, interesting how Jirou, Riki, and the kid had to combine since apparently the sword is so powerful that it can possess the user. I found it weird how king just got angry and threw it into the wall...what does that accomplish? Speaking of king, Dark Kiva has appeared! and I finally know what "zetsemuts tiemu da" means. How did Jirou inexplicably know who he was? Speaking of Jirou...poor guy got a beatdown. Other than that, he had some good moments. I liked the moment he had with Wataru; telling him that he needs to face reality. 1986 wasn't as eventful as 2008 in these past 2 episodes. I did enjoy these episodes quite a bit, despite their minor flaws. Bring on the next episode!

Zanvat is a beast. There's a reason it needs a power limiter. It's one of the most powerful rider weapons out there being used by a very powerful rider.

Can you really consider Kiva so powerful if he can't use the sword without the limiter or losing himself?

Well considering he has to go straight to his final form for the tail end of the series, for every fight, because his villains are just that powerful, yes. The sword itself was only controllable by the previous King who was himself incredibly powerful. With out the limiter the left over dark influence of King would make him evil.