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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

but I also enjoyed Kamen Rider the Next lol

I found The First to be entertaining. It wasn't great, but the suits were neat (almost like prototypes for the look Sangou and Yongou have) and I can appreciate what they were trying to do.

The Next, however, was just bad, and I don't often use that word to describe Kamen Rider. It felt like Toei had a monster movie script and then handed it to some people to shoehorn some Kamen Rider into. It's great that you liked it, but personally I thought it had a pretty weak story.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Anyway, starting off my new year with Hibiki, episode, I mean volume 1.
If I said I knew what was going on, I'd be lying. The intro with the montage of Asumu's morning routine was fine, but then the singing just appears right the hell out of nowhere and is gone.
What can I say, I liked it.

The rest of the episode was just didn't give much. Asumu and his...Sister(?) go to an island where he chances upon the titular Hibiki, they stumble into a trap set up by spider demons, and Hibiki manages to save them.

I'm rather confused

Hibiki's first episode is confusing (so much so that it put me off from watching the series for at least a year), but once you get into it the series is really enjoyable. Enjoy the singing and music while it lasts; as the show approaches the (in)famous 29/30 mark all the stylistic effects (e.g. the kanji on the screen) slowly disappear.

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

15 episodes into Agito and not really sure what the fuss is about yet. I mean its good I guess but it certainly isn't worth the praise the show gets so far.

Prepare to be underwhelmed. In my opinion, the only truly good parts of the show are around episodes 30-45 and maybe the first ten or so. The show is okay, but not really anything great. (Then again, I loved Kuuga, so I dunno.)

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My biggest problem is that so far it has been mystery upon mystery without any sort of clues or hints toward to the bigger picture. At least with Kuuga there were vague things here and there which let me at least try to draw my own conclusions, but so far Agito has given me nothing which is really frustrating because I am trying to like it.

My biggest problem with Agito is the complete lack of focus plot-wise. They do a good job of setting up a mystery at the beginning, but they don't do anything with it for what, 20 or 25 episodes? Kuuga had a story; Agito has filler.

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Gills is criminally underused despite being the most interesting Rider by far and G3 has been nothing but underwhelming.

Gills was criminally underused (and his luck is the worst). Hikawa is a good character, and I think the show could have been better with him as the protagonist. His story in the Project G4 movie is by far the only good part of the film. It's a shame that he wasn't used more seriously.