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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I'm glad you're at least able to get into a KR series.

Anyway, starting off my new year with Hibiki, episode, I mean volume 1.
If I said I knew what was going on, I'd be lying. The intro with the montage of Asumu's morning routine was fine, but then the singing just appears right the hell out of nowhere and is gone.
What can I say, I liked it.

The rest of the episode was just didn't give much. Asumu and his...Sister(?) go to an island where he chances upon the titular Hibiki, they stumble into a trap set up by spider demons, and Hibiki manages to save them.

I'm rather confused

Yeah, Hibiki's first episode just throws you into stuff without much explanation. It gets a lot clearer and easy to follow from here.

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

15 episodes into Agito and not really sure what the fuss is about yet. I mean its good I guess but it certainly isn't worth the praise the show gets so far.

My biggest problem is that so far it has been mystery upon mystery without any sort of clues or hints toward to the bigger picture. At least with Kuuga there were vague things here and there which let me at least try to draw my own conclusions, but so far Agito has given me nothing which is really frustrating because I am trying to like it.

The three Rider format is really working either. I'm a bit more forgiving about this because the show is still in early days and I suppose it was the first time Toei tried a proper multi-Rider show, but right now I'm at a point where the writers don't seem to know how to use them properly. Gills is criminally underused despite being the most interesting Rider by far and G3 has been nothing but underwhelming. It's just been Hikawa and Touhou at odds at each other over it and then sometimes one of them will go out and be completely ineffective.

So yeah - I'm still curious and hopeful but not getting the hype at all yet.

Gills generally gets less focus than Shouichi and Hikawa, but he does get more folded into the plot as the show progresses. G3 itself is never especially impressive, which is kind of its point. G3-X is when you start seeing Hikawa really making a difference in battle.