Watched Episodes 40-44 of Blade and finally! Finally the show is where I've been waiting for! I love the 4 of them working together it makes me so happy. Also finishing the character arc of Leangle was extremely long but worth it in my opinion. Love Hajime he is so awesome right now. I love when Garren and Blade are working together and love the similarities with Garren and Leangle. Love all the different pairs with these characters. Also the comedy bits in Blade are outstanding they don't happen often but they are totally laugh out loud funny.

I'll accept that Kuuga is a good character in Decade.
Decade himself, though, is terrible. He's an attempt to rehash Tendou's perfection while also being down to earth, so in the end, he's unstoppable and infallible, but he's a complete dick to everyone while everyone else defends him as "That's just how he is/He's trying to help you in his own way/etc."
Diend varies.

Honestly, I never suggest anyone should watch Decade first. I don't care how much of a taste it gives of the previous 9 Riders (And Black and Amazon), people should be decisive. If they ask "What series should I begin with?" give them a show you think they'd enjoy. Don't just shove Decade in their face and tell them "This one ruins every other Rider, so start here."

Decade lives on, its just called the Super Hero Taisen movies now. I haven't seen Decade but if I do, I think my problems with it are its trying to tell a story but fails at it. I let Wizard pass because it didn't attempt to tell a story it could mess up easily until the last 10 episodes.

Bashing Wizard's story to me is like bashing Mario's story. Its pointless its an excuse to fight shit. Decade though is like bashing a game with a heavy plot on which the game's base lies but fails. Its a legitmate complaint and makes you wonder why did they spend all of that time and money making a stupid story that was put to the forefront.

I'm going to disagree there. Diend and Kuuga were good, but Decade, no, just no. I hated the character. I hated the actor playing the character. He seemed like he was forcing his lines at times and was just disinterested in doing the show in the first place. Not to mention his attitude was just aholish, making me wonder why Natsumi even wants to be associated with him. He isn't Kaixa bad, but he definitely did not even prove himself to be worth of a lead Kamen Rider.

I suppose that since most of my hate was directed towards Diend, I never was particulary annoyed by Tsukasa.

And honestly his jerk tendencies were at least different from 50 episodes of introverted Wataru.
So it was something of a breath of fresh air.

One of the things that really bugged me about Kiva was always how Kiva never felt like the same character as Wataru. Wataru was this weak-willed, introverted, emo kid but Kiva was a pretty aggressive and brutal fighter. It never seemed to fit that well that the two were actually the same guy.

It's kind of an issue with all of Inoue's shows, actually. Agito definitely had a disconnect between the goofy Shouichi and the more direct Agito and Takumi was a lot less cocky and aggressive than Faiz. I can't help but wonder what Inoue's rationale behind that was.

Just saw Den-O: Final COuntdown, so Micheal Jackson stared in Kamen Rider? :lol Im serious I couldnt watch Shirou without thinking of that dude.

Oh and I was thinking and went back and watched the final scene of the series, Ryotarou said Hana was the forgotten singular point from the destroyed future and since Airi and Sakurai had a forgotten kid. That makes Hana the kid and Ryotarous niece? Oh man Im not sure if that answers or makes more questions.

18 - 19 of Black. The episodes that remembered Battle Hopper.

These episodes were very enjoyable, and really raised the stakes in a way the show really needed but it felt like the budget was pushed to the very limits. For the most part I think the show has aged well, all things considered, but in these episodes...Jesus, who the fuck edited this? And who the fuck said this editing was okay?

Plus, although I loved the Sword Saint for really pushing Black to his limits (if it wasn't for really contrived storytelling, Black would have probably died) he had basically no personality and his whole face stealing thing...was pointless.

I also kinda wish the show had more character moments, Kotaro is insanely likeable and they've really handled the dual identity stuff well but Kotaro is barely seen out of his suit, so the side characters are barely seen either.

Also I'm so fucking fed up of that Love and Peace song, the song is terrible anyway but being blared over every fight scene is even worse.

Birugenia is a good villain. He really ratchets up the tension in the fights, giving Black an enemy that's actually on equal footing. The drama he brings to the Gorgom scenes is also welcome and it all ultimately culminates in... well, I'll let you see that one for yourself.

Okay, if you're going to start criticizing Black's soundtrack then you are dead to me, especially if you start with hating on Blackhole Message. Black has probably the best overall soundtrack out of any Rider series - it's one of my favorite parts of the show, and given how much I love everything about this series that's saying a lot.

He has been good in action sequences so far, less so in anything else. It wasn't until you quoted my post that I realised how unclear that post was thanks to my rambling grammar.

I like the rest of Black's soundtrack, but that Love and Peace song is seriously awful.