The video quality and aspect ratio are entirely down to the subbers who released them, as that is not how the source footage would originally look unless that was edited from the beginning but I highly doubt DVDs would both be that compressed and in an aspect ratio that wrong.

I know the DVDs won't look like that.
But I thought the Blade subs were placed on the TV aired raws. I really have no idea why the quality is so bad (Blade aired in '04), though.

From the looks of it, the source was recorded on a VHS from another VHS which recorded it from the TV.

Blade was one of TVN's first releases and they probably didn't have as good of a source for raws as they have now.

May as well ask here as well, any of the Showa Rider series worth watching?

I've only seen Amazon, but I definitely enjoyed that.

Black's pretty good. :)

Got Black downloading now!

Also, just watched OOO 42 honestly although this show may have started bad, and stumbled many a time along the way, I don't think I've ever been so reluctant for a Rider series to be coming towards an end. It just has such great characters, great dialogue, great acting and a cast that have such incredible chemistry. Shit suit designs, bad effects, muddled mythology none of that ends up impacting on the series at all because every character moment is just so utterly fantastic.

One question though, why do Kamen Rider's never seem to wear cod pieces? The Driver draws attention to the crotch area and it's really distracting to see a bulging penis wobbling about right in your field of vision.

Yeah! Black is awesome! I really need to finish it.

Uhhh... I hadn't noticed?

I guess you mean why don't they have some kind of forward skirt armour, since a big ol' cup to me would just draw more attention. I don't think I've ever noticed any weiner surprises watching KR.

Well I assumed the Sentai heroes wore a cod piece to get that beautifully smooth, androgynous crotch area.