[ryan]

Interesting that people are watching Agito and Hibiki right now, they're the only two KR shows I haven't started at all.

After a two week break from Faiz, I decided to pick up Decade again, and it's been surprising enjoyable.

After a brief refresher of the Den-O and Kabuto World stories I resumed with the Hibiki World arc, which interested me because I knew nothing about Hibiki, except that I didn't think I was particularly interested. And it was pretty good. I was excited to see Jirou from Kiva plays a character, and I've been told these are the actual Hibiki actors, so I'm sort of interested in watching Hibiki eventually.

Am I also to understand that these Decade episodes are in continuity with Hibiki the show? It rather felt like it was supposed to be a coda to the show, since they were the proper actors, and by what happens. In which case, Asumu wasn't too bad, but I'm guessing you'll have to get through the entire show and then watch the Decade episodes before he does anything interesting.

After that followed the Nega World arc, which was, by far, the best story so far. It was surprisingly dark, and featured a bunch of Dark Riders, which except for Dark Kiva, were all from shows I haven't finished yet, and therefor hadn't been exposed to them (Ryuga, Dark Kabuto, Orga).

Oh, and Decade Complete is still a stupid design, but it was a rather neat henshin sequence.

Since Decade has now visited all nine Rider worlds, and now the Nega world, and I'm only just over half-way through, I have no idea where the show is going from here. But I've enjoyed it enough, even if certain things aren't to my liking (like Onodera Kuuga being a complete waste of a character, and apparently Kivala doesn't pay off in the series, I have to wait for the Begins Night movie?)

I still think Decade and Diend's suits are probably the worst of all the Heisei era Rider designs, but they've also got a certain charm/appeal to them, and I've been feeling driven to complete my Decade collection, I recently picked up the original Decade SHF and Diend (already had Machine Decader and VE Decade), so I just need to get a hold of Decade Complete and Diend Complete (anybody selling?).