[Tokumonkey]

I can't shake the feeling that this show is trying very hard not to be Kiva. This is pretty disappointing, since I really liked tonal elements of that show. I also don't feel confident that this is going to change anytime soon, as the candypop feel of the show seems deliberate.

"You seriously still don't understand how your powers work?" That was wonderful. Also, I really enjoyed Takeru's fantastic, "Yeah, I'll leave your office now," followed by heading right back in as a ghost. That's a good use of the ghost premise.

Unless I missed something, it's not yet apparent that Spectre is working for whoever's controlling the Ganma, which is a bit of a relief. (That might still be coming, but I'm hoping not; I don't want more Chase parallels, as much as I loved Chase.)

I had strongly mixed feelings on the Alice-in-Wonderland Ganma: fantastic design! Doesn't belong on a Rider show.

The formula of needing an object and a person with strong ties to This Week's Eyecon is making the plots feel super-contrived to me. I want to applaud the format of single-episode stories on principle, and I'm not sure we'd benefit from these stories being expanded to two episodes. My hope is that the head writer is getting these stories out of the way quickly in order to get to stories they're more interested in telling.