[Locke]

Decade 09.

As far as Decade goes, this was probably the most boring episode. I dunno, Natsumi looked nice as a maid but the Decade Undead look less like weird S&M demon animals like in actual Blade and more like rejected Greeed from OOO. And honestly, it's just not the same when there isn't a zebra in bondage gear kicking about... Hopefully a trip to Faiz world will kick the show back into life.

The action was as good as ever though. It's been a while since we've had a moment of WHY THE FUCK NOT. Hibiki is one of the few Rider shows I know NOTHING about. So I chuckled merrily when a random Hibiki Rider just appeared playing his guitar making everything explode. I clearly need to watch more Hibiki, but I'm actually really enjoying Decade for now.

The fight sequence where Decade went Ryuki and used the reflections in the cars windows was pretty sweet. And Blade's Ride form is pretty sweet, even if the CGI is atrocious.

I love how Yusuke is a better protagonist than Decade is, despite the fact the show seems to keep going out of its way to make him seem utterly superfluous and near irrelevant. He gets like one scene an episode, he never transforms, and yet he utterly outclasses Tsukasa in every way and holds the whole series together.