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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

It happens everywhere, and this just makes all the more sense, because unlike G1, Agito has that false sense of maturity to it I mentioned. ESPECIALLY the bit about Faiz. Faiz, and I can't say I've seen it myself, has always been the show I hear LEAST about, except maybe next to Blade. What I do hear is not always positive, so if that was all people had and then they went BACK to Agito, they would've been even MORE suseptable to it's superficial qualities. Combined with only ACCOUNTS on it's story, I cna easily see some people forming some sort of quasi-mythical status to it. Imagining it to be much better than it really was. Still without a yard stick to compare, the masses accepted it as the false icon it had been built up to be, because it's foriegn and different and if you don't like it you just don't GET it because it's from Japan.

Yeah, except everyone who actually watches Agito still has nothing but praise for its story, its characters, and its designs. It still holds up as one of my all-time favorites after two full watches and having seen almost every other series in the franchise start to finish. Honestly, the only two Rider shows I like more are Black and the good part of Hibiki.

And there's a reason why nobody talks about Faiz. It's a show that ends by burning off any goodwill it may have created and then practically kicking the viewer in the happy-sack on the way out.