How was it over hyped? Everyone went into it very skeptical. Having the writing and character development to prove itself is not being over hyped.

I understand that fruit armored Riders after the cliche-fest that was Wizard needed to have trust and build itself up. The show itself is good, and I agree its got good character development and is one of the best Rider shows ever, but the overhype came from people praising Gen Urobochi from on-high.

Once people found out that the writer was Urobochi and the first 5-10 episodes were awesome, the hype train started. People who liked Madoka popped out of the wood work and praised him so fucking much.

I believe the hype went over the fucking top at the episode where Hase was killed off. By then, not only was it a mix of the Madoka people hyping this guy up to impossible standards he couldn't live up to, but also the Rider fans who were craving something more like the earlier Heisei Riders, where characters actually got killed off, developing story arcs that didn't happen in monster of the fortnight formats and the story felt genuinley dark.

Truthfully it does need to end, I don't want it be milked out like Madoka... And... You know how Madoka went after The Rebellion Story.

Pretty much this. I love Gaim, but I cringe every time I see someone say that it's the best Rider show ever or that Rider should just end here because it will never top Gaim. And I see statements like that a lot.

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This... Al this.

I don't. I've never seen Madoka. In fact, Gaim was the first series from Gen I watched and it intrigued me enough to get Psycho Pass and now I want to see Madoka.

Gaim was my first series from Gen too. I thoroughly enjoyed Madoka. It's like Gaim in that it'll play with your emotions but it's good. Rebellion Story I actually really enjoyed because it totally messes you up after thinking about it for a while.

I'm sad, because this show is awesome, but I'm also glad, because it means we should get a satisfying end.

Gen apparently didn't write the final episode, so hopefully it does have a satisfying ending.

To reiterate, the speculation is that it's going to be a crossover special like Wizard had and the true ending of the series will be the episode before that.