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Blade endgame

Wow, this endgame was a good on my scale, not amazing like Ryuki's final episodes but still I enjoyed it. The show treats Tennouji the supposed final human villain before the joker and he wasn't very intimidating at all. I like his plan, and his use of Kerberos was interesting but it felt like just another arc not something leading up to the end.

With the completion of Kamen Rider Blade, I say its probably my favorite Rider series out of the ones I've currently seen. Best pacing, character development, interesting villains and heroes, great ending, and the card gimmick actually didn't bog down the show. I'd argue that it made it better by embodying the themes of the show, having power within your hands and have it be able to be taken away from you and change others' and your own fate.

I do have a few complaints for the series though. Tachibana and Mutski kinda felt pointless in the end. And I don't just mean the final battle but in the overall story. I like their characters but most of the time they're either obstacles for Kenzaki and Hajime or to demonstrate and enemy's power level by having their asses getting kicked. I mean they were useful when the 2-10 and royal undead were still prominent in that they sealed quicker but by the time King form and the Trials and Wild Form show up, yeah they're kind of there only to give moral support.

Mutski becoming free of the Spider Undead's will. Again, I like his story arc and resolution (though he really didn't change that much from the first episode he appeared in to episode 49) but it should have been happening in the middle of the series not god damn episode 42. You know the middle, where the Riders were fighting the Jacks and Queens and not much was happening and Mutski's full submission to the spider rather then his "embrace the darkness" BS towards the end that made him act like he normally does except more like a dick.

Kotaro. What was the point of this character other then to ex posit to when new shit happens. explaining stuff to the audience through a character in a similar situation is a great way of explanation but that character still needs to be useful afterwards. Here we have this journalist sleeping in the same house as a Kamen Rider and gets to talk with him everyday, this would have been a great subplot about getting the truth about Riders out there. Seriously, where the hell was Kotaro with his journalism skills when King was filling the internet with horrible Kamen Rider rumors and speculation. I think we see Kotaro at his job once in the actually series. Hell, I think in Blade vs Blade we got more about what Kotaro does then in the entire series combined.

For all 0 of you keeping track of my top Kamen Riders list, here it is updated. These are all of them I've completed or near completed.

1 Blade
2 OOO
3 Ryuki
4 W

And Way further down in quality..

5 Wizard
Worst: Kuuga