[Dr Kain]

I have watched through episode 22 of Maskman so far and I have to say that I am kind of bored. The biggest issue with the show is that there is nothing going on. It took 20 episodes to finally get to a nice multi part story, which is part of the problem. There just isn't any real story arcs going on. Yeah, there is the occasional battle between Takeru and Igam (who it seems GUIS cannot even figure our his/her actual gender in the show, nor figure out if his/her sister's name is Ian or Ial), but other than that, the show is dry when it comes to character development. In 22 episodes, Momoko and Haruka have both received only 2 episodes to develop their characters while Kenta has received 5 and Takeru three. Akira has only had three as well, but he really stands out from the rest of the cast due to his maturity level. At least there was finally an interesting mech battle. The designs of the monsters of the week are also quite bland. I also think another of the issues I have with it is its pacing is off due to everything pretty much being handed to the cast right from the get go. Don't get me wrong, I like the show, but it is not even close to being in my top 15.