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Originally Posted by Blade Raider

So, I have a new favorite Kamen Rider series: AgitΩ!

This is my ideal series. I came to see G3-X in action, I stayed for everything else. The pacing is perfect. I never felt it was rushing or delaying. Everytime a Rider's story hit a slow point there was another Rider to follow around. This is the first time I believe a show has three MAIN riders, not one. On top of that, all three are very different giving the show a lot of variety.

Like most Heisei Rider shows, it has a big mystery theme throughout and I'm very happy with the answers to those mysteries. It helps that some of those answers basically makes AgitΩ into the Kamen Rider version of (spoilers because it might enough for some to start guessing the plot) X-Men (one of my favorite 90's cartoons).

If there's any problem I have with the show, it's "A New Transformation," the first "movie" of the show. The main problem being it's impossible for it to be in continuity and luckily it really doesn't matter to the plot of the show or "Project G4" (The 2nd movie that's much better and can be in continuity). It's a bit of a shame as there's nothing really wrong with A New Transformation outside 2 scenes that directly contradicts a major plot point in the show.

Favorite moment: Shouichi punches god. No, really. That happens. Better yet, Hikawa helped with his BFG.

Agito is such a great show. It was the first Rider series I watched from beginning to end and it still holds a really special place in my heart. I loved the characters, I loved the story, and I really loved how everything felt like a mystery that needed to be solved. That's something that I really miss from the early Heisei era, particularly Kuuga and Agito, which both used this format. Nowadays it feels like we either know what's going on pretty early on (like OOO, where the Greeds' motivations were spelled out from day one) or we don't really understand the villains until late in the game (like Fourze). What Kuuga and Agito did so well was that they left the monsters' motivations vague, but gave us enough clues that we could start trying to piece things together. And, at the same time, the characters were working on the same puzzle. It felt like the viewer and the characters were solving the mysteries at the same time and it was a lot of fun. I miss that in Kamen Rider.