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Originally Posted by NGW

They were manly tears.

That said I have similar issues with the ending of W that I did with the ending of Fourze. Way to cheapen what was a very emotionally well done moment by bringing Phillip back. I mean seriously, their final moments together were a serious tearjerker, very well done, and then you spoil it by bringing him back the next episode.



W isn't my first Rider series either. I started with Wizard, which is ongoing. My first series I watched from start to finish was Fourze, so I do have a bit of a special attachment there. W I just felt was incredibly strong from start to finish. Rarely did I feel it dragged on or lost my interest. Thematically it managed to find a wonderful balance between fun, lighthearted moments and dark, dramatic ones. The stories and characters were likeable and interesting. We had a great cast of villains with some pretty neat designs (though I still think I prefer the Zodiarts). Was the show perfect? No, it certainly had its issues, and the overall ending to the series I feel was one of them given how strong the second to last episode was (the series really should have ended there, IMO), but as a whole it was really solid and deserves the praise it gets.

I think the problem was a lot of people loved Philip and didn't want to see him leave, plus he is essential to the W transformation so any future movie wars would be rather weird to just have Joker and Accel. Still, they could have brought Philip back in the OOO X W movie war, or in some other later installment. But I digress, W is currently my favorite series (not saying much seeing that I've only watched W, Decade and Wizard) and episode 48 is my favorite episode from that series, again, should have ended there but it's not like the finale was bad, just could've been better.