[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by blackadder

Seems that lost of people use nostalgia filter when it comes to season 1, despite the fact that season 1 has many flaws as well. People like Dr Kain just can't see it. No Dr Kain, male protagonist being a "cool" guy and a jerkass toward the very lame and useless female protagonist for the first few episodes is not good characterization Thank god, you're not a screenwriter. Plot wise, the series is so much better than the very slow season 1, which episodes mostly consist of jerkass guy with sword fighting with scary monsters while useless girl goes around working odd jobs with weird uniforms

I'm not even comparing it to Season 1 anymore. I gave up on that two episodes ago when I realized this show is not going to be even remotely close to being as good. The first season knew what it wanted to be, Kamen Rider meets Devil May Cry. Yes, the first season has its flaws (I hate Kaoru, I wish she would have died), but at least I knew Kouga's character. Plus, the Horrors themselves were uniquely designed and fantastic looking. They looked like something out of gothic horror paintings. Think of the fifth episode that had the two guys and girl waking up in a warehouse, being haunted by the Horror using the butterflies. It was filmed with a horror movie vibe, it was grainy, a gray tone, and was full of suspense. Or you have the bartender who was hot and cold that lost her fiancee, and then later on, her dad tries to kill Kouga out of revenge. The money schemed Horror that was made of chains from the second episode. Everything to it had a horror vibe as if they were little mini horror movies mixed with a super hero show. That is what made it so great.

Makai was lacking, and there was no need for Kouga to be in it, but it had the mystery of who the masked man was. He looked cool, there was some great choreography whenever he fought. the show was only half as good as the first season, but again, it knew what it wanted to be. It lost some of the great stand alone horror vibe that season 1 had, but the episodes with the casino and such still stood out.

The One Who Shines in Darkness has no idea what it wants to be. It is trying to do something new, and I praise it for that, but it is doing it in the most uninteresting way. I do not care who Ryuuga is because they are not giving me any reason to like him. I do not care who glasses and GokaiSilver are because they are not giving me any reason to like them either. Burai is the only character that I want to know about right now and all he does is sit there and do nothing. All I want is some character development and some god damned armor scenes, since that is the main purpose of this show. Oh yeah, and I want some actual Horrors NOT the Las Plagas!! This is supposed to be an action show, but it has been 10% action (without the choreography), 2% armor (and it has been all CGI), and 88% mindless arguing. I expect better from the man behind Onimusha 2. Right now, this show is the Go-Buster version of Garo, just without an interesting villain to keep it going.

A series does not need to be plot driven every episode, but it needs a balance between stand alone episodes and plot episodes and make the stand alone ones interesting.