1. Gaim
2. Den-O
3. W

1.Gaim
2.OOO
3.Decade

I'm still trying to decide whether Gaim is top 5 or not.
Hmm...I think he makes it.
1. Blade
2. OOO
3. Double
4. Den-O
5. Gaim

This list isn't set in stone, but as it stands now, this is my current list.

1. W
2. Gaim
3. OOO
4. Kuuga
5. Black

I was really bored and I just thought about this :lol : http://losondro.tumblr.com/post/9903...ed-opportunity

The Genesis Driver was the one story device with the most wasted potential in all of Rider.

1. Gaim
2. Agito
3. W

http://herotaku.com/uploads/monthly_...1400044485.png

:p

WizarDriver?

Just out of curiosity, was anyone else hoping/half-expecting a glimpse of the M-BUS or XVII whenever they did that zoom-pan through space?

1. Hibiki
2. Black
3. Agito
4. W
5. Kuuga
6. Blade
7. Gaim
8. X
9. V3
10. Den-O

-ish. The top five are set in stone; 6-10 are more based on how I feel on any given day.

Oh what the hell, I'll put my rankings up too

1) Gaim
2) Fourze
3) W
4) Ryuki
5) Amazon
6) Blade
7) OOO
8) Black
9) Hibiki
10) Decade

Trailing behind in 11th and 12th are Wizard and Kabuto respectively. I'm yet to see the others.

1- Gaim
2- OOO
3- Den-O
4- W
5- Kabuto
6- Fourze
7- Wizard
8- Decade
9- Blade
10- havent seen any more.

Well here is mine.

01. W
02. Kuuga
03. Agito
04. Gaim
05. Blade
06. OOO
07. Black
08. Fourze
09. Ryuki
10. Amazon
11. Hibiki
12. Kabuto
13. Wizard
14. Den-O
15. Kiva
16. 555
17. Decade

Boom.

1. Ryuki
2. Gaim
3. Den-O
4. Decade
5. OOO
6. Kabuto
7. Kiva
8. Blade
9. Wizard
10. Fourze

1. OOO
2. Gaim
3. Blade
4. W
5. Agito
6. Kiva
7. Hibiki
8. Den-O
9. Wizard
10. Fourze

Gaim's definitely in my top 10. I'd probably place it around the five, six, or seventh spot.

1. Gaim
2. Ryuki
3. OOO
4. Blade
5. W
6. Kabuto
7. Black
8. Faiz
9. Decade

1. Gaim
2. Ryuki
3. OOO
4. Agito
5. Fourze
6. Faiz
7. Blade

I only have a top 7 for now. I haven't watched Kuuga and Black, haven't finished Den-O, don't like what they did to Hibiki halfway through the series, and I don't like Kabuto or Kiva enough to put them on the list. Blade only barely made it onto the top 7. Faiz is there mostly for the fond memories I had watching it in my youth

Gaim actually managed to push Ryuki out of my top spot. It was that refreshing. Pun intended.

I think for me my rankings would be (now granted I only had watched a handful of KRs and still hadn't finished a couple of series but...here it goes):

1. W
2. Fourze
3. OOO
4. Ryuki
5. Kabuto
6. Agito
7. Gaim

1. Gaim
2. Den-O
3. OOO
4. Fourze
5. W
6. Decade
7. Wizard


Still working on Black and V3...

Mine goes:

1. Gaim
2. OOO
3. Fourze

And that's all the shows I've watched to completion right now.

OOO
Agito
Blade
Faiz
Kuuga
Kabuto
Kiva
Decade
X
Super-1
Black
ZX
ZO
J
Shin
Gaim


I don't really have a particular order with how they go but definitely feel Gaim is last right now. If the Drive X Gaim movie fixes things sure but I don't think I can rewatch because of the ending causing me such rage and frustration. I'm going to watch the 3 Showa Movies again even to make sure. I love characters from Gaim but not the series. However, when I watched the end of Decade I felt a hollow feeling inside from it but when I watched the Decade part of the W X Decade movie it made up for it and had a great ending for Decade's series and I love the character of Decade, so honestly I have hope the Drive X Gaim movie will salvage Gaim for me and I can place it higher till then I'd rather watch Shin again, and I will watch Shin again lol.

I am also in the middle of Black RX right now, I'm not sure where that'll end up though.

1. Gaim
2. W
3. Blade
4. Den-O
5. OOO
6. Fourze
7. Kiva
8. Wizard
9. Decade
10. Ryuki

This list is not set in stone.

1. Gaim
2. Agito
3. Kuuga
4. Kabuto
5. W
6. Den-O

Everything else in no order yet

998. Shin
999. Decade
1000. Wizard

Gaim is my top Rider show easily. The harder question is how Gaim does against my other top toku series (Sentai, Garo, etc).

Of what all I've seen beginning to end...

1. Ryuki
2. W
3. 555
4. Gaim
5. Black
6. Agito
7. J
8. Kuuga
9. Shin
10. ZO
11. Blade

1. Gaim
2. Kabuto
3. Den-O
4. Fourze
5. Wizard

Damn, I love a list...

Unfortunately, there's a tie for the #1 spot, as I loved both of these shows equally, for totally different reasons...

1. Fourze
1. Gaim
3. Kiva
4. Ryuki
5. OOO
6. Den-O (still in the process of watching, so this may change)

I feel like such a Rider Rookie compared to y'all!

I've only seen a few series from start to finish so here's my "so far but bound to change list"

1) Gaim
2) OOO
3) Fourze
4) Den-O
5) Wizard

Thus far, for me, we have:
1. Gaim
2. OOO
3. W
4. 555
5. Kiva
6. Kabuto
7. Wizard
8. Fourze
Bearing in mind that I've seen little of either Wizard or Fourze yet, and also bearing in mind that I still thoroughly enjoyed Kabuto!

I think it's time this gets taken to a thread of it's own guys.

This thread needs to get back on track to being about rumors and speculation.

So in essence, you blame Wizard for just about every damn mishap that KR has then? Lmao! XD

Oh man...I'm sorry. I didn't think to do that cuz I didn't think my question would have such a reaction. My bad. =(

Wizard did it.

So what's this about Gaim having the lowest Rider ratings I'm seeing? What happened to the explosion of popularity and sales it had?

Discarding the fact that it got pretty dark and probably turned some of the more vulnerable viewers off, where are you reading this?

In an unrelated Sentai topic, Suzu kept going on and on about. Figured I'd steer direction back to a more proper location for inquiring about it.

It was one of the best shows to us westerners... so it left me confused.

Not really surprising if it did. It was written by Urobuchi after all, and even if it wasn't as dark as his previous works, it was still a bit detached from the usual tone of Rider.

Do recall that that you're comparing apples to oranges here- what works for us in the Anglosphere and related cultures does not necessarily work over in Nihon, and vice versa. Darker seasons tend to do worse over there and better over here, while comedic ones are the inverse. It's a cultural thing.

Also, I still want to see concrete numbers just for my own edification. If it's coming from a place like TV Tropes, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

Followed by a bag of rock salt.

Also this. Gaim seems to be a victim of its own success in that case.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was hoping for - numbers to back up her claims.

And that's precisely why I included the part about "westerners" before. :) I know tastes can be different, and if past seasons are anything to go by, can easily be 100% opposites, so I was taking that into consideration as possible rationale for why it did "bad." Despite, again, how insane sales were at the start. I know they dropped off, like any show would really, but was it really that badly?

First off its not entirely Suzus fault. I told her about it before.

Next is that even I´m not at fault since I heard it from Lynxara on several occasions :lol I dont have direct numbers but I trsut Lynxara enough to take her word for it that Gaims toy sales were through the roof but Gaim didnt have the ratings Toei and Asahi wanted from the show. They were nearly as good as shows like OOO or Double that were in direct comparison alot more successful than Gaim was.

Some speculate that the low ratings come from Kids not really loving the heavy serialized format. It got too complicated for some of them and if they would miss some episodes it would be very hard to get back into the show.

EDIT:

Here are some numbers for the first 27 episodes

http://herotaku.com/blog/1/entry-123.../#.VDKQGxaraR4

If we go by them than Gaims ratings were a good chunk beneath those of WIzard.