I want to say that the guys who did Kamen Rider Dragon Knight made most of the fights disengaging and, to top it off, didn't spend nearly as much time getting us invested in the characters as they should have.

Just downloaded the first few episodes of Kiva. Gonna check it out.
What can I expect? Worth watching?

I enjoyed the first few episodes, stopped watching it a bit after that just because I got caught up in other shows and was a bit put off by some of the negativity I'd heard. That said I really do want to watch the season as a whole at some point.

You can expect some decent character development, and the occasional thing happening and never being explained or ever happening again. it's a show that's more concerned about where it's going rather than where it came from. If that makes any sense. I'd say it's worth watching. I really enjoyed it, despite its flaws.

I really love Dragon Knight, a lot of people here give it shit, because it's an adaptation or something but I think that they need to kind of accept that. Yeah Dragon Knight is a pretty generic story of good vs evil, but compared to a lot of Power Rangers seasons, it's allowed to approach it in a maturer way, that carries a lot more weight with the punches.

And comparing it to Ryuki is largely a null point, as a) it only uses the same fight footage and b) even if it was a straight adaptation (it isn't), you just can't do the kind of things Japan can do in American programming.

Plus by all regards it makes better use of a lot of the characters, especially the movie Riders.

I'm not saying you can't hate it - but most of the reasons I've seen for people disliking this season have been frankly, crap.

I fucking love Kiva, it's one of my favorite series. It's a very fun series with dark elements to it. It's very enjoyable.

To be fair though, has there ever been something you don't like? :lol

Watched the Kabuto movie. Judging this objectively... it sucked. But thanks to watching it together with Convoy, it was still enjoyable, because we were laughing like crazy at all the movie's flaws.

Like the series, it's not really good, but it's still entertaining :D

Dragon Knight 12-14
Show is still sorta boring but I am enjoying Maya's antics a bit more.

I'm sorry if I find this series unappealing but I just do. I want to like it but it just doesn't click. I think it might have to do with that the show doesn't make me care enough to root for anybody. Granted, that might be more like a real war, but it's a standard good vs evil plot underneath. Even with those basic plots in every other TV series, they at least made me care enough to have an emotional response when I see a character, whether good or bad, do something.

Although I do give this show props for using every episode to advance the plot an there being no filler episodes or scenes.

The Blade movie, that's about it from Kamen Rider lol.