[Kiwami]

This was the weakest Rider finale I have ever seen. I liked next to nothing about it. It never even felt like a real finale to me.

Takeru's mom was really shoehorned into this cheap, like damn. For one I'm glad that she didn't turn out to be the Ganma queen, but the pay-off was not worth it. Like, the message is sweet, don’t get me wrong, if someone grows up never knowing their mom seeing her like this is a gift of unbelievable love, but in the point of the show it didn’t feel like that this was the puzzle piece Takeru needed to win. This should’ve been handled in a side-plot much earlier, and they could’ve had some Harry Potter-thingy going on in the finale how the spirits of Takeru’s parents protect him one last time or something which triggers this flashback.

I didn’t feel the side characters either, they did what they were always doing and it felt cheap and fake to me like it always did, and Javel sacrificing himself was terrible. Not sure if it was worse than Igor’s love sacrifice, but at least equally bad.

I don’t know what else to say, the whole thing was bad. The CGI monster was shit, the last battle was cool I guess but I wouldn’t even call it much of a battle, and the last shot was okay I guess.

Then there’s the badly implemented crossover element. Just stop. It’s always bad. Like, Genmu or whatever he’s called was cool, the bicycle action was awesome, but I would rather wait a month and see this in the show it belongs to. Same with the next episode which will be another complete mess. Can they not wait to advertise the next season toys in their fucking shows? Jesus.

Also, another little thing: The explanation behind Yurusen is okay I guess, but that cat was fucking terrified and angry. They probably couldn’t find a professionally trained animal so they took one of the crew members' cats and that’s just terrible. Poor cat.

But, and I want to close with this: The ending must've been really awesome for that Japanese kid who was (is? hopefully not!) terribly ill and watched Ghost in the hospital. I really hope he was at home watching the finale; it would really cheer him up. I hope he returned to his normal life like Takeru did, if that kid died I'll be really sad.