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Originally Posted by AgileSiamang7

I like Wizard. He wasn't as naive as Fourze, his secondary rider wasn't a two-faced bastard for the first half of his appearance, and unlike in Fourze and Gaim, the female rider gets to live in the end and actually keeps there belt, unlike the secondary rider.

Also it doesn't try to shove forced high school friendships in your face.

No, Wizard wasn't like Fourze. He solved all of the conflicts with crying and plot conveniences, his secondary rider was mostly nothing more than a comic relief because the author didn't want to have him on the show and unlike in Gaim, the female Rider is pretty boring and lifeless.

Also it tries to make us like one of the most terribly written and acted characters aka Koyomi.

But seriously, Wizard is kind of a mixed bag for me. It had some good points, like cool designs, overall good music (if you can get over the incredible Rider Girls-heavy vocal tracks) and pretty neat concepts. It even had a mostly great group of actors.
But the thing is, it's lacking quite a lot. The story is mostly pretty uninteresting due to issues in pacing- in the first three episodes, a whole bunch of info is stuffed right in your face and what follows are a dozen of episodes filled with random events of boredom. Most good sideplots end up being pretty useless and as said before, whenever the main writer has to write an episode with Kamen Rider Beast, he is degraded to a terrible comic relief. From what I know, the author didn't want to include a secondary rider and he sure makes you feel that. Character development overall is a major problem of the show as it doesn't really happen that much. And the show tries to build an emotional finale by focusing on a character with whom you could barely even connect because Koyomi was rather useless most of the time (partly because her actress could rarely be on set because she was so busy)- I mean, Koyomi could sense Phantoms, but she rarely ever made use of that ability. Most of the time, she just stayed home and didn't do anything. And when she did something, she was usually whining about stuff.

To me, Wizard is one of the seasons that wasted the most potential. It could have been an awesome show... but it ended up failing in many aspects. Which is a pity, really.