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Straying away from all the W talk for a sec, I just finished up Ghost. Earlier I mentioned it seemed like it ranged from either meh to bleh since no one claimed it was their favorite season(Well one person did right after I posted it).

Holy hell this show. See, my expectations with Ghost were that it'd at least be as good as Wizard, it didn't even live up to that. But there was some good in it, two good things in fact. Alain and Akari.

Alain was awesome this season. I loved his arc, I loved his driver, I thought he was the best handled of the three Riders, he's just so good. Another thing too is that he didn't end up getting a big boost in power like Specter or Ghost, but rather they wrote around it and pulled a Mach by having him progress his technique instead. I thought that was nice. He's pretty much a second Chase since he's initially evil, becomes good, has a nice arc to him, and ends up having some of the best character moments in the season. Looking at you Fumi-baa...
Akari meanwhile is probably the best side character Kamen Rider has had since Ichijou from Kuuga. She's right up there with him and is hands down the best side character of the Neo-Heisei era. The biggest thing I love is that she's proactive, actually finding ways to assist Takeru and the gang at every chance. I mean crap, she invented a blaster that doubles as whatever the episode needs it to be after a few tweaks. It probably helps that I had a HUGE crush on Akari throughout the whole season. I mean she's so dorky and cute and efficient and Hikaru Ohsawa is just so... <3 <3 <3

*ahem* Moving on...
With this season I was kinda excited at the theme concept of living life to the fullest, kinda like all the historical figures represented as Eyecons did. The secondary Rider could represent living life for those close to you while the third Rider is like I said, essentially Chase from Drive since he ends up turning good. On paper, this sounds pretty cool. All with a meh execution though. The worst part is that I thought that after however many meh eps there were, the last 10-15 Eps would really kick into high gear and be enjoyable. Every season I've seen up to this point did it(well except for Decade), I mean OOO did it, Wizard did it, Drive did it. Ugh, it was more disappointing than anything.
New Ranking:
Fourze
W
Den-O
Gaim
Decade
Wizard
OOO
Drive
Ghost
Kuuga
Agito

Long story short, it's probably my least favorite Neo-Heisei season. I thought Drive would take that cake but Ghost is definitely it. On the bright side with Ex-Aid I don't think it can possibly be as bad as this, it can only go up from here. So I guess I'll find out if the next season's any good in a little bit.

Game Start!