[GoldenXtreme]

Excite! really gave us the final episode fast! It even melted away my Kiva anger! I loved the ending, the fight itself was awesome and they handled the people who had been erased excellently. I had been wondering for a long time if they would really just revive everyone or if all the lives would somehow be lost. It really never dawned on me that there was another option! I thought it really worked well with the show on a thematic level. The general idea of struggling on and standing by the patients, hoping one day for a cure was great. It was also fun to see where all the characters are now, and one can't help but be proud of them after their rough and bickering start.

I really loved Ex-Aid, it was a wonderful show to have as my first Rider watched weekly. I liked the characters a lot, since they were a rather fresh take on one of these multi-rider shows. At the beginning many of them seemed really bland, but by the end I loved almost all of them. Emu was a really cool protagonist, I liked how he was a well meaning, but occasionally rather manipulative person. He felt very real to me. Hiiro was also a unique take on the typical edgelord secondary Rider, since he was really, really bad at being aloof and emotionally disconnected. Of course, who doesn't like Taiga and Nico's fun and cute interactions! Team Bugster wasn't left out either, with Poppy being one of my favorite female characters in Rider now, and Parad is also very cool. The plot was certainly a hot mess at times, and it honestly had so much content in it that it could probably be 3 separate shows, but it was very compelling and I would love to see this writer again! I'm torn about where I want to rank it, either right above or right below Gaim, but I'm not quite sure yet.

Goodbye Ex-Aid! Hello Build!