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WARNING: Sorry for the long post and SPOILERS

Well I just finished up my second viewing of Kabuto and God Speed Love. I love the show to death but there are some serious issues I never noticed until this second viewing.

- Where did the Hopper Zectors come from? How and why were they given to Yaguruma of all people? When Kageyama questioned Mishima about the new rider (Kick Hopper) he had no idea what he was talking about and then we never got any further explanation.

- Drake is ridiculously useless and stupid. I stomached him fine the first time but on a second viewing he is an annoying womanizer with little to no substance who is completely absant for a significant portion of the series, entirely absent during the finale, and only shows up in the stupid epilogue.

-Dark Kabuto is also utterly useless. When he was approached by the Worm and then attacked them they said they would groom him, that he was currently only a child. Then they died and he did nothing at all except sacrifice himself in the finale. After Hiyori left him he had absolutely no reason to exist. Tendou should have destroyed him long ago.

-TheBee. Yaguruma was fine as TheBee. He was a cool guy aside from the whole Kanzen Chowa stuff. Kagami was also just fine as TheBee even if it was brief. But Kageyama is an awful flippant character. Plain and simple. He's greedy, narcicistic, and power mad. He's willing to trade the lives of others for his own and to keep his power. I hated him the entire series but he was slightly more tolerable as Punchhopper. Especially when we got to see Yaguruma kill him

-Tsurugi is awesome and then 180's into a complete goofball. 1) Why does he think he's human? There's no trauma that would explain why he for sure thought he was human and had witnessed his sisters death. 2) When he does discover that he's a Worm he somehow manipulates ALL of the other worms to do his bidding? And 3) Why did he sacrifice himself if he'd become a true worm? What the hell was going on with his character at all? He's awesome, then goofy, then awesome, then evil, then dies. What the hell?

-God Speed Love is a great movie in all honesty. Other than the useless 3 exclusive riders. Ketaros and Hercus were just fine. But Caucasas? Was just ridiculous. He's no one important at all that I could tell. He's just some random goofy looking guy with the Hyper Zecter and was beaten incredibly easily. And I am definitely someone who believes this movie to be a direct prequel to the TV series. The meteor that hit Shibuya is the one Tendou brought from the future. And the Hyper Kabuto that runs around sort of helping out until TV Kabuto gets the Hyper Zecter is the God Speed Love Tendou.

All in all this is still a great show even with these shortcomings. It's fun, has a dark aspect, great rider designs, and a good overall plot. It's just that it's problems do become more apparent in later viewings. It's like they had a ton of great ideas and just fumbled them along the way. I can see where things could have gone better than they did but unfortunately the series hurts from all of the missed opportunities.