Decade Appreciation Thread
 

Because everyone needs more of this rider in their lives. Who here loves themselves some Decade? (or DiEnd?)

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Sometimes I don't think this series gets enough love, but maybe I'm just around the wrong people.

since everyone i know seems to hate it. It was my second rider series and is my absolute favorite by far!

(I'm also rewatching it heeeee, I forgot how funny it was. Oh, Natsumi. You so crazy)

Well you're not around the wrong people anymore :)

Decade was my introduction to the franchise so I've always loved it, even when it's completely absurd (pretty much all the time).

The absurdity is the best part, in my opinion. It's not that indepth, and I can deal with that. It's the fair-weather Kamen Rider.

just passing through on it's way to kamen rider fame.

snrk.

Decade is a deeply, deeply flawed show. It's full of plot holes, unexplained characters, and the ending is pretty much a total slap in the face to the viewers.

That said, it is still one of the most balls-to-the-wall fun Rider shows ever. It is such a blast to watch all the team-ups and cross-series fight scenes. The story may be a mess, but if you can just shut your brain off and enjoy it it's so much fun.

Yeah even more so when you're an American viewer like me. I remeber watching the final episode and it cutting away when Diend shot Decade and thinking damn I can't wait to see what happens next, it must be in a movie..... That came out almost a year later plus 3 more months to translate after a new show (W) had already started :( Needless to say I was pissed but I felt it was a satisfying conclusion to the series. Can't wait to see decade team-up with the Gokaigers in Super Hero taisen though!

By the way can I just say your sig blows my mind with awesome Switchblade?

Decade was the gateway series for me. Because of it, I downloaded the actual series that were portrayed in the show just to compare them. And because of Decade, I came to appreciate all of the riders in their humble glory.

With that said, Decade is my favorite rider, buuuuut I don't really want to go into fanboy mode. ^^;

Double was here, Decade is the pits.

Hehe, just kidding.

Decade was my first full Rider experience. I love it so much, despite how inherently awful it was.

If not for that ending, I would like Decade far more.

That said, that ending was terrible. It's makes Double's ending look amazing by comparison.

It is one of, if not my absolute favorite show I've seen (seen all Heisei except Hibiki). To this day it is the only Rider show I have watched twice through. Once when I had first gotten into KR, then after seeing some of the other shows I watched through it again to see the differences. Still like some of the Decade alternate worlds better than the actual shows themselves.

Oh jeez, Decade, don't watch Hibiki. The beginning is an absolute masterpiece and then then end just gets thrown to the dogs because lolwriterchange.

it makes me so sad because hibiki was so fantastic.

But yeah, the ending made me angry. I was so pumped and then I had to wait AGES for that movie to come out on DVD so it could be subbed. Months of silent weeping.

You may. ;)


And this is why i always tell everyone to stop watching Hibiki after episode 29. The ending, while not objectively crap, is such a letdown after how great it is up to that point. But I would definitely say that everyone needs to watch the first 29 episodes of Hibiki - you're really missing out if you don't.

Decade was my introduction to the series. Decade complete form is still my favorite looking Rider I've seen.

Sure the ending was a great big WTF, and I still haven't had the chance to watch the movies yet.

But I love Decade.

I have it and I have TRIED to watch it, but I can never get into the double digit episodes. Oh well. I liked the Decade alternate Hibiki World anyways haha.

GAH! Decade. endless goodwill built up in the first 3 minutes and then WASTED. alternate worlds, recast characters, meandering plot....and conclusive proof that sentai monsters are stronger than Rider monsters. just terrible.

But it was followed by W which was darn near perfection.

Since every thread needs a good dose of cynicism

I absolutely rank this as the worst Rider show I've seen. It is so tied up in fanwank fanwank fanwank, it ran out of ideas by episode 20, scraped together a couple of showa riders and a sentai (which are admittedly includes the best episodes...god bless you Black). Oh, and a world where the Blade movie riders are somehow important. It ended on a bad cliff hanger. It has awful movies thrown in, near Kiva movie bad, which are so fanwank/Gary sue, they actually destroy the fanwank/Gary Sue continuums (the Movie Wars does get a plus one bonus for the glorious Begins Night/Alternate Skull scene). The concept of a story about someone who exists through other peoples stories is an interesting concept. But not one to carry 30 episodes on...30 eps...they couldn't even get a whole series out of it. Not only that but not one of the new characters is interesting. I don't get the point of the girl or the grandad (or the universe hopping photo studio for that matter), Diend is a decent concept who just never got me...and Decade...Tsukasa isn't a bad character because he's a dick...he's a bad character, who pretends to be a git, but is actually a boring, over moralising character...with no character. And emotahair, the hair that changes to suit your feelings. And a bad actor.

And his final form is hideous. And he's got the worst movie exclusive form ever. Lighter colour and angry eyes...and where the hell did he get Violent emotion from anyway...and where the hell did it go when he was revived...and why the hell is it back in the Sentai crossover images...and what the hell was with the idea he started Super Shocker...which had zero significance beyond explaining his powers...GAH!!!!

Honestly dreading the new crossover as, beyond the fact I'm not a crossovers man and I don't particularly like the move towards Riders existing in the same universe, I prefer the individual universes (note how OOO creators literally came out and said "there's two OOO, one in the main universe and one in the Double Universe...and then made a third for the Let's Go movie). I don't like how, outside a series, knowing other riders MIGHT exist in a universe screws things up a little for me. I'm dreading it cause it's going to try and make sense of all the stupid crap Decade did...you don't make sense of this crap...you leave it be...because it's stupid crap.

AND another thing! *is gagged and dragged away*

No, conclusive proof crossovers don't rely on logic (in the trailers for the new movie wars, you've got the Showas fighting the complete greeed and Terror...wtf???). At all. Throw the complete Greeed into Shinkenger, then watch the blood fly...and it will...cause they've killed dudes.

*shoved back in the bag*

While my love has decreased for the show after each previous Hesiei Show I watch(After I finish a show I go back and watch the respective Decade episodes), I still love the designs, music and the main characters and still enjoy watching it every now and then.

Decade was my first rider series and even though it was off the wall like many have said, I enjoyed it. Sure the cliffhanger ending made me go NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and had me waiting until War 2010 came out, only to read on Wikipedia that the originally planned ending was changed, but still. It was fun and it did its main thing, which was to celebrate the 10th Heisei Rider.

Only thing that bothered me about the series was Narutaki in War 2010, its like he changed character completely. In Dai-Shocker he was anti Decade, yet he was also Anti-Shocker as we also see when the Amazon episodes aired.

And out of honor of Decade returning to the Big Screen, I will be watching his series again.