There was not enough fighting in Shin, it was short and brutal but it needed more!

Blade 34-39

Damn, still good despite the Kenzaki lurker two parter in there. I don't understand why the hell the Tiger undead hangs around Mutuski all the time considering she's his queen card.

Kenzaki using King's sword against him was awesome along with debut of Blade King. Minor complaint, but Blade defeated King and used King form in the same episode, I'd have like to have seen an episode in between to spread it out.

Yay! Tachibana's back to being a good guy again! Seriously, why was Tachibana getting all caught up in his beliefs again? Seriously, he fell for another Undead's trap just like last time with Peacock Undead, this time being Trial B. And I knew that the story had to pull out at least one Undead made to look like a dead person plot, with Hirose's dad.

Gaim Episode 6

So Durian... he's a creepy guy named Pierre... OOO, I think we have a problem! :lol

So, I finished The Next. As a movie, I liked The First more, as that one felt more like a "Kamen Rider" movie. This one felt much more like a horror movie with Kamen Rider shoehorned into it. Definitely much darker than the previous, and the mutant pop star killing everyone for no reason (or at least not a well explained one) kind of ruined what would have been a great V3 remake for me. However, I did enjoy the suits and final fight sequence, especially all three riders standing together on the stairs. Still not sure exactly what happened to Chiharu, nor why the movie was written as something that feels so far removed from what The First was like. Also, why was Chiharu both with Kikuma and V3?

Overall, I thought this movie was okay, and I think a different plot would have helped it immensely. I think The First did a better job at being a remake, as this movie left me wanting another V3 remake sans horror elements. There were some cool moments like V3 absorbing the flames in the burning building and the fact that Hongo punched through a guys arm...lengthways.

I also have absolutely no idea as to what to think of that sequenced after the credits. Is Chiharu somehow still killing people, while the Kamen Riders have become cultural icons? Were The First and The Next just fantasy sequences based on the Kamen Rider game machines? Were the movies fiction, while the murders are reality? That part left me with more questions than answers.

I am so, so sorry.

Been a few days off, but finally back to watching Hibiki. Up to episode 27 now, not much longer before the shifts in production.

Still a lot of questions to be answered, am enjoying the shift into the summer season though, having smaller makamou to fight has been much more enjoyable for me than the larger ones, save for the finishers being a bit less epic (most of the time it's just Hibiki going Kurenai and making quick work of them).

I seriously hate that we don't have figuarts of any of the Hibiki riders. This is the only hesei series that we don't have them for right? Hell don't we have most of the showa era seasons covered too?

Hibiki's toy sales were really, really bad. I assume that's why Bandai is dragging its feet on the Figuarts. It is kind of bullshit, though, that now we're finally to the point where all that's left are the 90s movie guys and Hibiki and Bandai's response is to start remaking the other Riders (and Shin - how the hell is Shin getting a Figuart before Hibiki?).

I'd buy Hibiki Figuarts. I dunno if I'd buy them all, but I'd buy as many as I could.

Ryuki 22-24

Aw man, Tezuka's gone. Just as they got to his backstory. I liked they way they covered how he has an understanding of how some Riders in these battles might have good reasons for participating and why he wants the Riders to stop trying to kill each other through his friend Yuuichi, who could've become a Rider to cure his injury but instead chose to to fight since he didn't want to become a murderer.

I can't say his death wasn't sorta fitting in a way though to his arc. He changed the fate by sacrificing himself to save Shinji, who he believed would be the one who could change the fate of the Riders. So yeah fitting, but he could've lasted a bit longer.

Those survive cards are pretty awesome. Even gives the mirror monsters an upgrade. I don't understand Ren's insistence to continue to act like a disaffected prick, when he's essentially a good guy, but alright...

We get a bit of Asakura's past. It's tragic and makes it sort of understandable of how he fell off the ddep ed, but...still don't feel particularly bad for the dude. He goes around killing people because they "vex" him.

Shinji thinks he can change him though, with the news of Asakura's brother still being alive. Good thing something gave him the push he needed to try and stop the rider war since Tezuka's sacrifice for him affected him pretty bad.

He plans on changing Kitaoka too, and at first I thought he might be abit easier to convince to stop the fighting tha Asakura, but eh...the dude's super self centered. Goro being kidnapped did gnaw on his conscience and he did finally give in and decide to save Goro, though, even if it was too late so who knows?

And uh...oh Kanzaki just stopped the Rider War. Um...alright? I guess he can do that. How powerful is he anyway? I mean I suppose he could appear and disappear at will, but can't the Riders jsut...I dunno, just distract him by making him talk to Yui, then jump in the mirror world to beat the shit out of him?

Blade 24-25

Man, this is way more bike action than I'm used to in Kamen Rider :lol