7 years ago was Kabuto, give or take. And for the record, there has been some good shows in between, just not Kamen Rider good. Not Gaim good.

W and OOO alone both beat out Kabuto. Easily.

Or is that "not Kamen Rider good" some kind of elitist "any show after Kabuto isn't REAL Kamen Rider?" Because I hope not.

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Rika Izumi. What a babe! Sigh.

Go watch the Sailor Moon Toku, guys!
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(It also has Ibuki, Gamel, Shizuka from Kiva and other actors appearing in minor roles in both Sentai and Rider. The Sailor Moon musicals also have quite a bunch of Toku actors....)

Well played Oren. Way to ruin his plan with... however the hell you did that. But still, it's nice to see Mitchy's Dark side cross with his loyalty, and I think Ryouma is quickly on his way to becoming my favourite character. Especially with Duke debuting next week. I may have to start pre-ordering his AC now if I want a chance of receiving it before it goes out of stock

Who else demands and arm's change Oren Arms? I want a frying pan to throw at my riders!

Nincompoop Arms! *Clunk* NEVRE GIVE UP!!!

Just got around to watching it; I've been inexplicably uninspired to watch this episode (and yet I've watched two of Magiranger, a show that isn't even fit to be mentioned in the same thread with anything even half as good as Gaim). I think I figured out my dawdling, though: I really want to marathon this show. Gaim has a plot structure very similar to the early Heisei stuff and I watched most of those (Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade) mostly in sittings of 2-4 episodes at a time. Watching a show like this just once a week is a lot harder.

But yeah, good episode. Poor Micchy is definitely going to a dark place. Oddly, when I first saw the suits for this season and we kept getting early information about all the characters, I assumed Ryugen was going to be pretty minor. Turns out he's the show's most complex and compelling character at this point. I am really, really curious to see where this goes with him stuck in the middle between Kouta, Takatora(bata), and Aguri... er, Ryouma.

Also god damn, how awesome is Marika?

You know, for an episode headling Marika's official debut, Mitchy was the real headline. He's doing such a good puppeter act right now. Working with Yggdrasil, but using Ryouma to let him do as he pleases at the moment and at the same time perserving his friendship with Kouta and Mai for just a little bit longer. That being said, I expect his working both sides while blow up in his face spectacularly because that's what happens when you trying both sides like that. Minato was fairly impressive in this episode, and her fight with Kouta was really good. But the real show stealer was Oren's fake Acorn Lock Seed :lol.