[Shin Henshin]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

For the record, and this probably *is* an unpopular opinion, neither series is anywhere near the travesty people pretend them to be. Ghost has a great cast and several really good arcs, and Wizard has one of my favourite Rider endgames and fantastic designs. Neither are perfect, of course, but there's still plenty to love.

I'll agree with this.

I hate Wizard in terms of the actual series. It's mostly boring, it's mostly uneventful, Haruto is extremely bland and the supporting cast outside of Beast are either uninteresting or extremely annoying. All that said...I can't fault the designs. I also can't fault the idea of entering a person's very being to purge them of self-destructive despair and how Phantoms are born from humans losing themselves and essentially dying to negative emotion. That's a really good concept. Wizard as a rider is really cool with a unique fighting style. Beast is a great secondary (even if his power-up form makes him really boring.) and despite how bleh Medusa was as a character, Phoenix and Gremlin were both very interesting.

I also feel like Wizard falls into the "Better in everything but their own show" category cause every cameo role he's played in other projects has been leagues better, with Heisei Generations being one of, if not his best portrayal.

Fundamentally, Ghost is the better series by a long-shot, but I can't let my dislike of Wizard blind me from when it does do something very well.