Wizard Episode 47: "The Truth About Wiseman" Discussion
 

Alas, poor Medusa.

The Holy ring was pretty gnarly, I thought.

Well all I could say is that I called it months ago and I'm not surprised.
And Holy is awesome.

Watched the RAW

-Holy ring was kinda dumb. Just another ring with CGI effect.
-The actress for Medussa is damn good. And again she did a great job with the death scene
-This gate's 'hope' was one of the only ones in the series that made any sense
-Haruto is an idiot. How would he not know the Infinity ring is missing? I can't imagine that super magic rings are like car keys.


And we finally get an answer to one of the biggest questions of the series.
White Wizard is Wiseman. I freaking called this months and months ago. I FEE SPECIAL NOW!

On another note, does anyone know how well KR Wizard has done ratings and merch wise in Japan? I'm curious how it has stacked up against other KR series.

Wonder how many people are gonna come into this thread and say "I called it" :lol

That's what I was thinking too. Perhaps a separate thread should made so we can see who called White Wizard being both Wiseman and Koyomi's father.

All in all I'd say that this is a good start to the end. I'll give 47 a 4 out of 5.

As of July 1st, Wizard was sitting at a 6.1% average, which is a little bit higher than Fourze's 5.9 average (and still way above Kyoryuger) but it's generally doing better with little kids than Fourze. Is's still well below OOO's 6.9, though, much less W's 8.0. Right now it's sandwiched between Fourze and Kiva (6.2) as the second lowest-rated Heisei series. We'll see where it ultimately ends up, though, as that isn't taking the last three months of the show into account; I wouldn't expect a surprise jump in viewing, though.

The toy sales are going very, very well, according to what I've read, although I don't see any numbers on that.

Wow, I had no idea that the toys were doing that well but I'm not surprised that the ratings are so low. I also always thought that Hibiki was the worst rated of all KR. Had no idea that Kiva was at the bottom.

Both KR and Sentai ratings has been dropping in recent years. I wonder if it due to Japan's plummeting birth rate (compared to other 1st world nations).

Actually, according to the list I've seen, the only Rider series to come close to Hibiki's 8.2 since it finished was the double-act of Decade and W at an 8.0. Hibiki's problem was always toy sales, not ratings (although, to be fair, the final ratings include the bastardized episodes, so I can't fairly claim that Hibiki was totally doing fine before the retool).

AoBlue actually was the first to say it, though.