[TF RyuShin]

I felt somewhat similar with you about W and Drive, but it's the opposite. There're particularly so many nitpicks that that I can bring about W than Drive here. I don't want to nitpick the two-parter format here, but man, the two-parter is one of things that hold W to be a great series. Still, I might recommend for everyone else to watch pre-Wizard series first because the post-Wizard series are much more story-driven, especially Gaim and Ex-Aid. I disliked the constant doubts of Wakana and Ryubee basically felt less intimidating compared to later villains. Even as mediocre Saeko can be, at least, she was more compelling than the rest of families.

On side note, let's compare W and OOO a little bit. I have watched the first ten episodes and sometimes before I watched post episode 31. OOO for some instances start to drive its story much fluid than W and it manages to actually make the whole point just by ten episodes. For W, it's hard to take its seriously during its first 10 episodes while OOO starts being serious during the first run. Once OOO Putotyra comes to the scene, you know that it's a serious period and no more useless fillers and more dive to the story. For W, they could just cut the whole Kirihiko's sister arc and the detective arc for more dwell to either Philip or Shotaro. W CJX also felt so sour until the last minute. I just particularly watched W post CJX's debut because of its theme.