[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Wall of text and major spoilers for several shows incoming.

Kuuga: Show the first battle between Kuuga and Daguva. The episode just opened with the city burning, Godai lying defeated on the street and they never really explained what happened. I was so confused I thought I skipped an episode by accident.

Another thing: I love the idea from the books that Mika becomes a Rider. I wish they handled that plot in the show.

Agito: The whole thing with the seed of god is crap. It doesn’t work for me, at all. I really would’ve preferred if Agito was a direct sequel to Kuuga instead of a maybe-but-not-really-sequel and that the enemies are the Linto tribe from Kuuga and not "Angels". Give us some more backstory for the lore and have Agito be Kuuga's true successor.

Ryuki: The way the Mirror Monsters are created as well as the final episodes make little to no sense. I mean, I can buy that Yui created them but... it's just not that good. I would've preferred if Yui and Shiro only found a portal to the mirror world and freed the monsters instead of basically creating them, and if Ryuki won the Rider War and used his wish to go back in time and save little Yui and Shiro from their shitty parents so they don’t find their way into Mirror World and unleash the monsters.

Kabuto: I hate how they shafted Hiyori. She's just a price for Kabuto to fight for and she never found her own resolutions. I wish Hiyori would've had more screentime and found her own resolve without Tendo. They even handled the "How human can a worm be?"-question with the female worm general. Which is cool and all, but why? Why not use Hiyori for that instead?

Similarly Dark Kabuto needs more screentime. I always wanted him to basically meet his own supporting cast; people who don’t know Tendo already so that he can be human and learn more about himself. Which would've played way better into his ending.

Den-O: The whole endgame is shit. Kai sucks. They could’ve handled the story a lot better.

W: I already said it, the ending does nothing for me. Philip should’ve stayed dead.

Another thing is that Skull/Sokichi ties into the story very poorly. During the first 10 or so episodes Shotaro is frightened to tell Akiko the truth about her father, then that gets dropped completely and much later when the former friend of Sokichi is released from prison and comes to the agency Akiko herself tells him "He passed away". Wut? When did you learn about that?

I realize it was probably done through a movie but I hadn't watched that one at the time so I was super confused. And this is not a thing you should handle through a movie; it's an essential question for the show, especially if you use time from the show to set it all up. But W is infamous for handling important stuff through movies I guess.

And of course, Akiko herself is annoying as hell. She's miles better than Onari but she's still a major pain in the ass most of the time.

OOO: The final boss should've been Kougami as King OOO. That's all.

Gaim: Yoko sucks. Completely mishandled character. I have some more pet peeves like Ryoma pulling the Yomotsuheguri Lockseed out of his ass and all the useless tie-ins, but as far as story and character goes I would only really changed Yoko. She should’ve realized that she should only follow herself and oppose Lord Baron, not because of what he’s doing is wrong but because she’s done being a toy.

Hiyori's actress got ill, so that explain's the lack of screentime later
Akiko finds out her dad is dead in Begin Nights when Shotaro can't fight the Dummy Dopant who's mimicked Skull. W did the same with NEVER and how Futo Tower got destroyed in AtoZ