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Originally Posted by chaos42

Actually there is a reason it didn't do very well in the states. The show was set at weird hours and was changed several times plus some cw stations didn't air it instead running local programing over it, as such it wasn't seen frequently. In addition the toy line was very late and had extremely poor distribution and didn't make it into stores in the south east until the series was almost over and had stopped being shown on local stations.

And with out better promotion the series died

Kamen rider dragon knight is passable its weak not great but ok

masked rider is terribly written as it makes episodes more about the standard fish out of water story as dex is an alien-seriously why is it always aliens.

Also IIRC, the final episodes of the show only aired online.

I think the show could have found solid ground by marketing itself to preteens/teenagers who wanted something similar to Power Rangers, but a bit more mature thematically. Maybe in that little area where shows like Yu-Gi-Oh and Teen Titans thrived.