[Dr Kain]

Once again, the ending to DaiRanger did not stick up a middle finger. The rangers defeated Shadam and stopped the Earth from being destroyed by Great God Dragon. It just states that a war that has gone on for centuries is not going to end in one small year long conflict, which was far more realistic than, "main bad leader is dead, war is over people." That is all I can say here without bringing political discussions into it. Is it a perfect ending? No. Is it a realistic ending that fits the serious themes of DaiRanger? Yes.

Anyway, my favorite rider opening is Break the Chain. The song is awesome (especially the non-tv edit version). The video itself is pretty bad ass, especially the cinematography used in it. I also really love the first Blade opening too.

As for Ryuki, again, the movies to me are not canon at all. They do not count, they do not exist, and that is what makes me more mad that they built this show up around 13 riders and only bothered to feature 10 of them in the actual story. I don't buy the whole, "this is what could have happened" bit because we never actually saw Kanzaki reset the world in the movie or either of the 13 rider endings. If the movie had continued when Ren and Shinji went off the fight those giant bugs with Kanzaki actually revealing who Odin was, and using Odin to reset the universe, then I could except that belief, but it didn't happen. Even Yui's origin is too different in the movie from how it actually happened in the tv series.