[Kiwami]

Finished Den-O. It took me some time, but not because I didn’t like the show, I just didn’t feel like sitting down and watching more than one episode at times so it took longer.
Anyways, it’s a great show and I enjoyed it a lot. The Imagin are so much fun, the suits look nice and the action is good. The big problem with this show however is that a plot is nowhere to be found. They try to put it all into the last quarter of the show and only then introduce the enemy behind the Imagin (which is laughable by the way) and all the tries to tie up the loose ends fail in my opinion. I mean, I can live with the ending but man that stuff comes out of nowhere. No build up at all.

Story is definitely not the strongest point of this show, so it depends if you like the Imagin and their weekly soap opera. If you’re not into that then you probably won’t enjoy Den-O much. I did however, and I will watch the movies later on.

So, here’s my ranking for the shows I’ve watched so far. It’s rather hard to put them into a numbered ranking since some I really like so much I wouldn’t put them behind others, but that’s the spirit of a ranking so here we go:

1. Gaim
2. Kuuga
3. Agito
4. W
5. Ryuki
6. OOO
7. Den-O
8. Drive
9. Wizard

Den-O places relatively low even though I enjoyed it a lot, just because the other shows I’ve watched could entertain me as much but had fewer flaws when it came to the overall story and characters. To me at least. Gaim is at the very top because I think it’s the best I’ve watched yet, Kuuga and Agito are rather close (Agito is the better show but I enjoyed Kuuga a tick more) and W - Den-O are rather close too. I enjoyed those a lot as well.

Drive and Wizard are at the very bottom as they’re the only shows that made me tired of watching which the others never did. I had to force myself to continue with both; I did feel like dropping them more than once. Drive is technically a good show (at least in the second half) but man I couldn’t care less about it. Wait I can, it’s called Wizard. Wizard puts the others to shame, even though I wasn’t as offended by the supporting cast as others were. I actually like the gang. But the show itself is so boring and stupid at times, it has to be my least favorite.

I haven’t decided on what to watch next yet, but I have Kabuto ready to go and I do enjoy the shows designs so maybe I try that. I do know that Blade is a huge fan-favorite, but I want to save this one after Faiz. Just so I can remind myself there’s some light at the end of the tunnel when I have to make myself watch Faiz. I’m really afraid of Faiz. It looks so bad.