[Androzani84]

In my mind, and from what I’ve discerned, some of the big problems with Revice were:

The three fan favourites (Hiromi, Kagerou and Genta) were gone for long stretches of the series.

A lot of focus was given to characters who were controversial (Sakura, Akaishi) or downright maligned (Hikaru, Giff). In general, I think the show suffers from having too many characters to adequately focus on in a TV show. Though that seems to be a result of the author primarily being a writer of novels, which can easily devote a paragraph in a chapter to any character, no matter how minor.

The show clearly didn’t know how to adequately use its 50 episode plot. We get two different Rider form debuts (Tamaki as Over Demons and Invincible Jeanne) in a single episode, which would be a big no-no in any other show. And given that both are depowered within the next two parter, it makes you wonder why they even bothered leaving it so late.

The third arc with Akaishi and Giff. The main issue is see come up is that it dragged out for several episodes of “Heroes come up with a plan, Akaishi has magically anticipated the plan, Akaishi thwarts the plan, Heroes start to come up with another plan”. Given that a lot of stuff near the end of the show was noted to be rushed, I feel they could definitely have had something to work with if they cut this arc down.

Retcons. This show suffered from a lot of obvious examples which make it clear the writers had no real faith in their earlier ideas, and gave up on trying to make them work.

Granted, there were some things people liked about this show, but rather than list them out, I’ll just say that I’ve seen pretty much all of them done better elsewhere. Overall, Revice is pretty much my low point for Reiwa Rider and my second lowest point for Rider overall (only Ryuki beats it out, but you probably knew that)