[Kurona]

Zi-O for me has certainly been a very... polarised series.

When it has high points it has REALLY good high points - colour me surprised when they made Zi-O and Geiz a fantastic relationship - but there's definitely one too many areas where it suffers. I haven't hated it but it certainly could have benefited from much tighter writing; even when you get past the ridiculous amount of upgrade toys the writers have to sell there's too many issues for me to ignore.

That said, like Decade? One of the best aspects of this series is that when it wants to be fun, it's goddamn fun. The OOO, Den-O and Agito episodes stick out to me as some of the best and most memorable in the series because you could tell they were really enjoying some of the stuff they were doing in it, and there's many points where they brilliantly make effective use of legacy elements like Ryuki's Mirror World for Sougo's development; or Kuroto Dan turning out to be an incredible choice for a twisted opposite to OOO. If the series had kept this consistently good and truly knew what it was going for, this could have been amazing.

If nothing else I'm coming away from this series with "the Another Riders were cool; that was a stupid good Agito tribute; and omfg they got so many actors back"