[FreshToku]

Please do not leave your windows open for strangers.

Anyhow, I'm in the same boat of liking Kuuga but I like better the ways the franchise built on what it started. Kuuga's definitely a unique beast in of itself and I wouldn't mind if another series followed it in certain stylistic choices or story beats.

I personally also saw the themes about how gaining more and greater power is actually a burden and curse the first time I watched the show, buuuut I also thought the show didn't successfully convey or carry that theme as well as it could have. I know there's such a thing as reading between the lines, but there were times I felt like I had to fill in the lines myself (especially like how Daguva first appearing to Kuuga happened off-screen!?!)

I appreciate it, though it'll always be a strange in-between of the Showa era of shows and before the more modern style I know today. I consider Agito to be the real start of the kind of Rider I know today, so I look forward to you getting to that!