[Kurona]

TACHIBANASAAAAAN! AREYOUATRAITORRRRR?!?!?!





(TR-8R would have made a wonderful rider but, y'know, we can't have everything)



Okie dokie, so, welcome to Blade! One of the holy trinity of shows along with Ex-Aid and Drive where I give the sort-of-praise and also kind of patronising title of "that was good but I couldn't really tell you why". Like, I like Chase, but I just can't get into what makes Drive a fun show, y'know? Can't really dissect it and think about it as much as I do a Kuuga or a Build or an Agito. Just pretty good really. And the same kinda applies to Blade? Maybe like the Ryuki thread this'll awaken something in me and make everything click and cause me to start analysing everything in deep detail, but while I was watching I mostly enjoyed what I was seeing and I'd happily watch it many times over, but there's not much I was able to say about it.



That said, uh, reactions here... surprise me! Because I adored this first episode! Maybe, maybe perhaps it was because it was my last Heisei rider so by now the tropes of 19 series (plus a tiny bit of Zero-One) I was super familiar with and I was just very happy to see something different, but I was extremely into how Blade just plunged you into the middle of things immediately and let slowly fed you information as you went. It's a very different way of doing things than Rider usually does (even shows like W and Wizard where the Rider's been doing this for a while always has some sort of character or situation to make it a big introduction), and I really enjoyed how it just. Let me figure out stuff as I went. Definitely got me very excited for the season!