[Kurona]

Aww, man; I wait for you to get there and everyone beats me to the punch of why this is great! And I've got a headache so I can't say much!



But, yeah; Scissors is just fantastic. Teeechnically we had Another Agito last season, but there even from the start they were hinting at him being misguided and he eventually gets some sort of redemption. But Scissors just changes the game completely.

Like, I said before that Kuuga and Agito are very fundamental, back-to-basics seasons, right? They're naturally quite different from most Showa series due to their supernatural elements, but they're still essentially -about- the same ideals and morals as those series and follow similar formulas, just with a different aesthetic and framing. So Toei finally nails down a Kamen Rider formula, defines them as heroes who fight for justice... and within the first 6 episodes Kobayashi comes out swinging with a Kamen Rider called Scissors who's an evil cop that kills people with his crab! The absolute sheer contrast and how far removed it is from previous seasons just goes miles in showing what they wanted to do here, and I get the feeling that if Ryuki wasn't my, uh, 18th Heisei Rider I would have been able to appreciate it a lot more.

This more than anything was the series that really said "yeah so we can kinda use Kamen Rider as a vehicle to tell any story we want", and I kind of love that. Thank you, Guy Literally Called Scissors. You did good.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Yes. Good. Do more of this.

Well, I hoped you like that; because I'm probably gonna slow down a lot more after the halfway point!