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Originally Posted by DecoyBlackMage

Hibiki I would say, but the mess happening behind scenes are pretty known about so it is not really weird how that went, half is amazing, the rest is......Urgh...

Wizard, 90% filler, it really hurts the season that for most people is going to just feel extremely droll to get through, and it is a shame due to the fantastic suits, monster designs and ideas, it does not help that Kamen Rider Mage was built up only to not really be much of anything in the show when she finally got to enter the stage.

Decade, I like the concept and overall it works, there was no need to get the actual actors to reprice their roles since it is a dimension jumping season, Tsukasa himself is also a major highlight for me in the show and I too like how it ended. But I do not think that was the intended end, overall most of the things happening in the film where likely supposed to have been the last arc for the series, executives and behind the scenes issues got in the way of the overall run.

I would have loved for the last story arc to actually involve the past riders like Kiva and Blade hunting Decade down, instead of being made into a mess via the movie, the fact that the movie came out MONTHS after the show ended really hurt it as well, shit happened here and it is kinda obvious.

God damn I love the sound effects for the Decadriver, overall my favorite driver in the series.

Hibiki was one of those they should have stuck to the original path, even with the BTS issues and last minute changes, they still ended up following the main story path, so the changes were moderately pointless and they could have explored various ends better in the original plan.

Decade was a timing issue, but also the complete end reworking. That one could have been so much better, the timing wasn't so much of an issue, as it was lack of really having the time to work out the better story paths. Though I'd argue the usage of Blade should be done a little more sparingly. There are some hanging plot threads from Blade's series that they've ignored a bit too much in that regard, but also need to address.

Wizard I have no real complaints about, I mean the entire concept was built around cracker jack rings and other toy emphasis in that regard, and in many ways was meant to kind of be a Kiva 2.0, but took time to find its footing.

*Shrug* Varies series to series. I prefer most self-contained to themselves, but even "filler" content usually has deeper meanings in it too in what it covers. Rider series are fun in that regard from an artistic standpoint of the show as art itself.

Zi-O I like because it sidesteps a lot of those issues by the innate nature of the storyline, so it's more fun and self-parody to itself in that regard, but also done in a respectful light hearted way.