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Originally Posted by Switchblade

And welcome to Fourze's biggest overall problem as a series: major pacing issues. The plot slowed to a near standstill in the late teens through mid-30s and then had to rush to cram everything into the last ten episodes.

Yeah the whole show was a bit of a mess honestly, who thought high school drama and space opera were two compatible genres? I think the first half of the series which was almost exclusively set in the high school and simply dealt with the formation of the Rider Club and their daily battles with the Zodiarts were near flawless, easily the best I've seen of Kamen Rider so far and I hope to find something that hits a similar cord.

But then...then it decided it wanted to be more than that, it wanted to be more and more sci-fi, more and more space opera and the more the series grew the less Fourze got to do what it wanted to do so the more things became rushed and the more the 'how much these don't fit together' part of the two genres became obvious.

Checked out another episode of Blade before jumping into Fourze's final episode. And eh, just another story of monsters attacking humans with Japanese men with playing cards rising up to fight them eh? Shame. I wonder why they sealed them in a pack of playing cards in the first place, no wonder they broke out! About the only way they tried to mix this up was with them apparently being unsealed to just be sealed again...the fuck is the point of that?!

The monster design was good, the suits are really growing on me - I especially love how they have an actual impact on the body so they don't just feel like a change of clothes and for an older series I love the fight scenes.