I'm glad you're warming to Blade, both the series and the characters. It's great.

It was just a shame that after that episode the next episode mehed me so much I really didn't have a whole lot to say. Tachibana's character arc seems to always stop as soon as it starts and although an Evil Rider should be awesome, the action is so disappointing most of the time in this series I find it hard to care.

So Black Fourteen was probably the worst episode of the series yet, the action scenes were fun but everything else was corny or dumb or both. It is like the show is becoming less focused and more filler like the further we get.

24 episodes kitaaa!

I liked the cygnus zodiarts arc, an even if I don't like meteor design very much I really like ryuusei as a character. So far so good.

Also 600 pages... that's neat.

?! What?! I thought he looked awesome, I LOVE Meteor, it's just a shame his upgrade form sucks.

In general the idea behind his design is very cool, but in action something doesn't work for me. I may warm up more to his design in the future though.

Meteor is like a what-the-fuck-am-I-looking-at design. It's not bad, just kind of out there.

Meteor lacks any inkling of practicality. With Fourze, he has silly aspects, but the overal design evokes an actual space suit with weird shit added on. Lots of Riders that have complex designs usually have some kind of basis, like Kabuto looking like combat armour, or Ryuki being Knight-themed. Then you have riders that lack any practical basis, but offset it by being simple and streamlined like OOO or W. Meteor... it's like he started basic, but then they gave him the big asymmetrical shoulder piece and covered his outfit in stars like he's opening in Vegas. He's got too much going on. He's like the upgrade to a more subdued deisgn. (another reason his actual upgrade is pap, since it goes even more outrageous) It's like he needs more sculpted detail, less surface detail. If he lacked the stars and maybe had the red compound eyes integrated into the blue meteor helmet and not behind it, he'd look better IMO.

Yeah, Meteor has some interesting ideas behinds his design, but overall they don't work together, personally I feel the Trans Blue Parts don't work when the rest of the body has such a simple design.

So, to some up the last major plot turn of Ryuki:

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No we're focusing on Raia. Result!

Den-O 24, Oh crap I though Ryuutarous was annyoing now Ive got to put up with Sieg?