[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Ultimately, like a lot of shows, W's problem was pace.

That's why I really wish this stupid 49 episode min/max would just get lost. A lot of good shows get wrecked by the forced limit, and imagine how well W could ahve been if it had less episodes, thus less filler,a nd could be written entirely rather than episodes being aired just as the one four episodes away was being written.

This is another thing I have to wonder is a result, maybe, of Decade jostling things out of order, being a much shorter series One has to wonder if there were difficulties returning to the longer runtime.

W, to me, definitely ranks above Wizard because of the emotional investment it pulled. Like you mentioned, to me Shotaro's crying may be the single most believable piece of acting in Toku. Every character in W had some emotional pull for me, be it big like Accel, Sho and Philip, medium like the Sonozaki's, or small like Akiko. Yeah, she counts.

And Skull. I've never seen a movie exclusive Rider have so much lasting impact on the show, and yet never actually really appear.

Also, on the plus side, now you can watch Message from Skull and Accel Returns.