[toughfighter83]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

So my opinion on the show after 10 episodes: Meh.

Characters are super weak; only hold together by their stupid one-liners, and even Specter who was kinda interesting at the start is a big walking cliché now. "Oni-chan, don’t become grumpy because of me!", *sigh*. Nothing about this is original.

The toy-demos are so painful to watch, especially the ghost gadgets. It wasn’t a lot better in W, they were annoying there as well, but the way they use the gadgets every episode now is really annoying.

And then there are things like the Ghosts being invisible. That was actually kind of cool at the start when they were transparent to the viewer but the characters couldn’t see them. Then Akari invented the vacuum cleaner thing, which she always carried around and always used to make the Ghosts visible. Like, why even bother having ghosts then?

Same thing with the Spider Lantern: It's now in every single episode, because it has the same effect as the vacuum cleaner. They take the one thing which is interesting about this show (Ghosts being ghosts) and shoehorn two ways in the show to negate that effect in the first ten episodes. Also, neither Ghost nor Specter are using their powers correctly. Ghost hardly flies, never goes through walls etc. They showed he could do it in the Newton-episode, so why not dive into walls or the floor and attack enemies that way? I know, CGI is too expensive, but still. There’s nothing ghostly about these guys. Aside from being invisible for 5 seconds until someone pulls out the Spider Lantern.

And don’t get me started on the atrocious CGI-battles with the stupid Iguana bike. That’s borderline disgusting.

Designs are meh, the base-forms look acceptable but I don’t like a single form-change. It’s like Gaim only worse. And the Ganma are the worst enemy designs I’ve seen in all of Kamen Rider, they are on the bad Sentai-level of badness. And yes, I prefer crazy Shocker-mutants over bland Sentai-mooks with terrible costumes all day.

But every now and then the show is actually clever and interesting. They wrap up the collecting of the Eyecons really fast, which is bad for one thing because it means a new form change in every other episode, but now they can actually do something new. And there are interesting things on the horizon, the Ganma invasion, what was Takeru’s father really up to, what are the Ganma really and what is their realm?

I will continue watching just because right now is a good time for the show to prove me wrong (Drive upped the game way too late) and because for the first 10 episodes it isn’t completely horrible. Just… not good.

i know, i hope for the next kamen rider season i hope they start cutting back on the toys and focus on the story like double. it's one of big reasons i dont collect them. ghost is ok, i just dont like the pointless fighting with ghost and specter, i understand he wants the icons but they should have been addressed after he beat down ghost the first time, at least get the story moving, i mean dragging that, buying toys for every episode is very pointless and annoying like the story wasnt going anywhere.

im still going to watch just for sake of finishing no matter what. that's just opinion about it.