Compared to giant Phantom from Kamen Rider Wizard, the giant brown Bugster has more simple design. I am actually love giant brown Bugster design because their design looks like molecules chain so fits with virus theme....

I wonder if they'll do a crossover with Zyuohger. It has a slight game theme as well.

Anyways, I liked most of that. I didn't really care for the whole lv 1 sequence and I really hope they don't make that a thing that happens often. The rest was pretty cool. It seems fun but I get the feeling it'll take a couple of episodes to really....figure itself out.

I am liking everything so far except for the hospital director. He seems to be the most likely candidate for "Old Man Comic Relief" like Chief Honganji and Sage Edith.

The action scenes were awesome. They were dynamic and funny, definitely a huge step up compared to Ghost. I like a Rider who has a good grasp on what do and Emu seems to be having fun while dishing it out.

On a similar note, the level generation system of the Gamerdriver is something I found particularly nice. Kinda sorta like procedurally generated levels of older videogames. This driver even sounds better than the Ghostdriver, although that's not a high bar to clear.

On the cons, there's the protag himself. To be honest, there's nothing specific to dislike about him. His back-story nicely explains both his profession and his hobby and his babyface looks symbolize his greenhorn status in the medical world. The problem I see is that the actor himself isn't particularly good at emoting. But I'm willing to overlook this since this is the first episode.

Another thing that I would like to comment is Asuna being a physical avatar of a virtual being. This is not a bad thing considering that the Bugsters themselves are virtual viruses infecting the physical world. I'm just curious as to where the story would go with her.

Overall, nice episode, can't wait to see more.

He feels more subtle, though. The ridiculous slapstick at the beginning aside, the show feels like it's really dialing back on the comedy relief. There's far less screaming and goofy faces compared to Ghost and Drive.

Hospital director I love. He's obviously gaga over Asuna, and that to me makes me think it'll be AWESOME and HILARIOUS to watch his interactions going forward, especially if he doesn't know the truth about Asuna.

Wow. Where do I even start. I think Ex-Aid is the series we've all been looking for. There is so much potential for this series. I just hope that after the Drago Hunter gashat is collected, they keep making more because it just seems like it's only going to be ten gashats.

It's worth noting the Director is also Kamen Rider Brave's dad. It's rare that parents of Riders are main cast members, so this should bring an interesting dynamic to the show even if he himself is kind of goofy. Heck...Hiiro himself is described as a tsundere and seems to be going for a comically serious angle, so it'll be interesting to see how the two interact and how much he actually takes after his dad.

There's a lot they could do with him. I don't mind it. If they can just make him more of an Uncle Mario and less of an Edith, I'll be cool with it.

True that. Maybe the character will grow on me yet but for now i am still a bit guarded against him. I don't want to be burnt again by a character that seems to start out good but then becomes bad. I was a fan of Onari in the first few episodes of Ghost after all.

Okay, now I'm definitely interested. Most parents in Kamen Rider are usually dead so this will prove to be a delightful change of pace.

I hope.

I liked it! By the final fight, my eyes were bleeding from the 90's eXtreeeme ACACAC-ACTION! and neon blitz flashes and man, I was feelin' it.

It was pretty surreal overall. I'm a huge fan of weird shit so, yeah, hard not to like it; the baked chicken-headed cannon fodder must be a nod to the whack-a-doo randomness of so many platform games. Seriously, what other explanation could there be?

FIVE YEARS: Okay, so Mighty Action X has been in development for five years.
Also, we learn that, five years ago, some tragedy occurred regarding the Bugster virus. Certainly, these are connected. Perhaps the game itself created the virus? Despite the main plot goofery, they jump in the serious business water pretty fast on that simmering sub. I'm thinking they're aiming for a Den-O // Gaim hybrid since those seemed to be their greatest successes in recent years.

Pretty interesting that Asuna / Poppy Pipopapo potentially sketches out the arc structure of the series:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/k7pBqr.png
So, fifty episodes, five per arc for a ten arc series, maybe?

An aside: I like how terribly acted Poppy Pipopapo is.

An Aside #2: Graphite - terrible costume, killer Game Gear Gauntlet.

An Aside #3: I like the retro-to-death view on video games EX-Aid has. You can tell it's designed by curmudgeonly Gen Xers who haven't touched a console in at least a decade.

"Back in my day, we didn't need no fancy-shmancy drop down menus! There wasn't any problem that could be solved with a frantic A or B button mash! Now git!!".

Man it's kind of creepy seeing everybody ELSE happy with a new episode of Kamen Rider too for a change.

I really think it's more a result of simplifying for the sake of the motif than Toei being out of touch. Ghost reduced historical figures to coats and one word powers ("music!", "electricity!", "swords!"), for comparison. The retro flair makes the games very clearly GAMES! in a way being too modern and accurate wouldn't allow. Games today are complicated multi-genre adventures whereas for Ex-Aid they needed something as simple as "platformer!" (which barely even exist anymore but it was a logical choice for the protagonist) or "racer!" (though it would be hilarious if we see Emu have to buy a season pass to unlock Lazer :p) for the different Riders.