Blade's a really good show, but it is a slow starter. It starts picking up a lot more right around the point where you dropped it.

Yeah she is.

It wasn't so much the pace that killed it for me, it was the terrible action set pieces. And then they introduced Leangle as Garren's former partner who was actually really cool...and then immediately killed him off. I was so done, literally.

Decided to watch Ryuki 29 as a bonus, since 28 was a clip show. Nothing too important happened in 29 either, but it was a fun episode. And a weird one!

I kinda like how, despite what he says, Kitaoka's currently a friend to Shinji and Ren who just...occasionally tries to murder them in a fight to the death. Shinji seems to note this too. Other than that, I liked the goofy antics between the three riders. Not much else to say, aside from, uh, it's a funny, weird episode.

Nope. Two things changed:

1. It showed Ryuki is too smart or too strong-willed to fall for the effects of the Time vent.

2. Kanzaki was able to stop the drawing from getting wrecked.


That was TOTALLY worth a clip show, right? (no)

Blade Scrub 2.

I wish these opening episodes weren't so strong, because it's getting me all excited, and unless I've changed dramatically in the last eight or nine months I'm going to be very disappointed all over again.

Chalice is like my favourite Rider design ever but honestly the second time around I really appreciate Blade as well with all his subtle details. Not really a big fan of Garren though, he just looks like a less interesting Blade with an uglier colour scheme.

Minus editing and cinematography that borders on incoherent the action is pretty great, I love seeing them attack with their transformations to get around the criticism of 'why would the monster just stand there and let them transform'. The only real problem is the special moves lack a sense of impact, and fights often seem to end limply.

But it's the little touches I find most impressive, like when Chalice runs along a wall, as his bow materialises in his hand before dropping to the ground and unleashing a violent assault as he uses it like a savage melee weapon. Chalice's animalistic fighting style was about the only aspect of the action I enjoyed when it starts to slump after the first couple of epispdes.

And I'm so glad they dropped that stupid Undead Gibberish stuff after this episode.

Where are you getting these? I'm curious to see non-crappy-tv-rips of Blade.

The cinematography is one of the great things about Blade. I love it. I love the camera angles. The wide shots.

Thankfully it is still used a few times throughout the show. I'm sorry, but I think it is nice when an alternate race of beings is given their own language. It makes it feel more real.

Chalice is one of my favorite riders ever, it's why I love Blade, well I love all the Riders in it. How is the quality of the scrubs?

What do you mean by scrub?

Subbed series, where the subtitles aren't very good, or missing things. At least I think that's what they are.