[Kiwami]

I finished Kamen Rider Black RX. It was... disappointing

Like, I didn’t hate it, but I got extremely bored by it. There are some real gems scattered throughout its runtime but most of it is filler, in the worst way possible: So many stories we have seen before, so many flat characters, so much wasted potential.

If you look at what you have on paper, you could make something amazing out of it. But they didn't. It's just more of the same, with only a few episodes showing off what could have been, and ultimately the whole show feels like a giant waste.

And that's only if you ignore that it is the sequel of Kamen Rider Black. If you don’t... this show won’t do anything for you.

I wanted to like it, I took so much time to wait after I finished Black to ensure I wasn’t biased, and I think I wasn't, but Black Rx was still an underwhelming experience. Which is sad, because as I said, the foundation is there, they just don’t do anything special with it.

It's the weakest Showa-series I've watched, it's far from the overall worst Rider-series I've seen but it isn't anywhere near the top either. I don’t know if I would recommend it, it's worth checking out for sure but I see no real value in watching it in its entirety. There's just too much boring episodes which you've already seen in multiple other Rider shows in some way or another.

All-in-all: Not a very good show.