[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Then I decided to watch Kamen Rider Ghost, and it completely hooked me. After I caught up, I started watching Drive, which I also love. Yet people say that those are both meh seasons? After starting those two Rider series, any Sentai I've seen has been pretty plain in comparison.

Which leads me to my question (which might be better off in the KR section, but whatever). Why do people consider something like Ghost or Drive boring, when there's so much more going on than in Sentai?

I think you may like Kamen Rider more these days because you're less familiar with its tropes than you are with Sentai's. It's a fresher concept for you, so you're enthralled with all the new weirdness Rider has to offer.

I think a lot of criticism of Drive and Ghost stems from both shows being very conventional as far as Rider series go -- there aren't a lot of twists or subversions or surprises that make these shows exciting for many longterm fans. Once you watch a few more Rider shows, you'll start to pick up on the franchise's repeated tropes, and you'll probably begin to see why many get frustrated with these two shows in particular.

As a Sentai fan first, I remember discovering Kamen Rider. The first shows I watched -- OOOs, Fourze, and Kiva -- blew my brain to bits, and I began to think Kamen Rider was the franchise that made my toku heart the happiest. Cut to a few years later, and I have a bunch more series under my belt. I'm way more desensitized to Rider's tropes. As such, I've gravitated back to my first toku love: Sentai.