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Well, I watched the first episode of Amazon. It was pretty much exactly what I was expecting and hoping for. Certainly a very different sort of Rider, and very great. I am definitely looking forward to watching the rest. But...it wasn't just quite enough to get me to postpone the fruity Riders any longer.

So I'm watching Gaim now. I'm four episodes in. It is pretty great.

Since I caught up with Drive six weeks ago, I've watched Blade, 43 episodes of Kamen Rider, six of X, and one of Amazon. What I'm saying is, the past six weeks have been filled with a lot of very standard, if not sub-standard, definition video. So what I'm saying I'm saying is, man are the modern series pretty. This HD soothes the soul.

Not that I'm holding poor video quality against the old shows or anything. Just saying, it's nice.

Anyway, the opening scene in Gaim is...very impressive honestly. The armies and all that stuff...very big, very dramatic. Definitely hype as hell.

Series and characters themselves have been interesting. Kouta is a riot (dem faces in episode 2) and a total weak and directionless chump, a character type I must admit to liking a fair bit. Kaito is a jerk ass, but a good one. Takatora is...violent. Mitchy I'm liking a lot.

This is one place (of many) where the fact that I know certain Spoilers is probably going to color my experience of the series, (though as spoilers come the eventual twist that Mitsuzane is a total asshole is huge and impacful enough as to be pretty unavoidable) but I am certainly liking him a lot at the moment.

Plot thus far is interesting. I know a bit about the Inves, but not a whole lot...enough that with blatant context provided I can probably guess what happened in episode 1. If it is what I think, well this show stealthily got off to a depressing start, which I suppose is appropriate considering that it's supposed to only get darker as it goes on.

But anyway, as a whole it's pretty good so far, and I definitely look forward to seeing how it progresses. It's supposed to get pretty intense, and I'm very definitely looking forward to that.