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And that's Kabuto finished. Apart from God Speed Love and the HBV which I'll check out tomorrow.

First things first - episode 46 was probably the best done episode in the entire show. Despite knowing the big twist about Tsurugi since he was introduced and him then spending the entire show as a dim-witted, unfunny rich boy caricature, I really felt for him through the entire episode.

Then the finale itself was a mixed bag. I don't think it was overly bad, but despite the build up it still felt somewhat abrupt and anticlimactic. The final fight left me going "wait that was it?" and I was pretty disappointed they kept Drake absent for the entire thing then had him randomly pop up for the epilogue. Surely they could have done SOMETHING there?

All in all Kabuto is a show with gorgeous suit designs and a fascinating base plot. However this all gets muddled in poor story telling, ass pull explanations/powers and awful characters (I've mentioned many times how much I love Drake, and Kagami did grow on me but I still don't think he was amazing). This is the first Rider series I've come out really disappointed, to be honest it was pretty much crap all the way through.

Oh well.