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Originally Posted by XW1n5t0nX

Kamen Rider Ryuki or Kamen Rider W.

I will second the recommendation of W, but I cannot recommend Ryuki as a first season. While I absolutely love it, and if you are interested in the season then by all means make sure to watch it at some point, but it is not a good introduction to the franchise.

W is the best of both worlds between the darker tone the older seasons had and the more fun, lighthearted feeling you get with today's Kamen Rider.

Fourze is another season I like recommending. It was fun in a way that was just really endearing and didn't get obnoxious or feel too, again I hate using this word, "kiddy". It manages to have some genuinely dark and dramatic moments as well, and has one of the strongest starts to any season I've watched.

Beyond that though, I recommend just taking a bit of a look at the different riders, their motifs, the themes (as in...W has sort of a noir-inspired detective angle to it, not the theme songs), maybe read a brief description of the general plot (obviously avoiding any spoilers you can) and pick one that looks interesting to you.

The only ones I would say to hold off on watching are Ryuki, Decade, and, to an extent, Hibiki. Decade is an anniversary season, and one most people don't actually care for, watching it first does a discredit to the seasons before it and a lot of it just wouldn't make sense (what little you can make sense of it anyways). Ryuki and Hibiki aren't really your typical season, with the latter feeling more like a showa era season and even at times not really like Kamen Rider. Ryuki is my absolute favorite Kamen Rider season period, but it's different, dark, and again it just doesn't feel quite like a season of Kamen Rider, not in the more traditional sense. It has some amazing characters, which really are the driving point of the series, but whereas most seasons of Kamen Rider focus on the henshin hero, fighting monsters, leading up to some confrontation with a big bad or something of the like, Ryuki focuses much more on the characters, their relationships and how they grow, their conflicts amongst themselves, it's rider vs rider with the monsters being almost incidental.