[Locke]

Episode 20 of Kuuga was a really enjoyable watch, although the acting in this series isn't great you really do feel the chemistry between the cast and it really showed how attached I had become to these characters in how much I could share their joy in the fact that Godai is alive.

These really were some of the most heartwarming exchanges between characters I've seen in Toku, without it getting cheesy as all fuck. The pacing isn't perfect in this series, far from it, but I really have enjoyed watching all of these characters grow close and closer together.

I really do think that by the end of this series Ichijou is gonna go down as one of my favourite characters, period. It's a shame more series don't get a great side character like him.

I hope whatever Rider series I move onto after this, it keeps that same sense of reality in the emotions and relationships between the characters, it really makes everything feel like it actually matters.

Once again my only real complaints are around Kuuga himself, the action sequence with Number 26 was certainly much more satisfying this time than it was last time but after so much build up, done with such great special effects, the fight felt so very brief. I assume more is to come of this, but the fight still felt a little tacked on. Which is kinda weird that the tacked on fights are better than the key narrative ones.