[HattoriHanzoIII]

I wasn't a fan of this ending and series. It felt political and in many ways it mirrors the divide in America. I also watch a lot of jdrama and I like to see past toku actors transition into bigger roles. I also like to predict which KR and SS actors/actresses will become future stars and I think that only the actor that plays Jin will have a decent future in acting. His height and looks transitions well for hs/college student roles.

Back to the finale, I wanted to see Fuwa return to his real family who he had forgotten because of the chip implant that allows him to transform with the shotriser wiping out his real memories.

I didn't care for a new Izu being built which will have to start from scratch to become the Izu that was destroyed. I realize there was no way they weren't going to bring her back (I would have preferred that she didn't as her death would mean a lot more to me) and the only other way would have been the secretary key working and having her return as if she was never destroyed which would be similar to Poppy Pippopappo who returned as if she never was gone at all. I think Izu meant more to this series than Poppy did in ex-aid which is why everyone has an opinion on how her return or not returning could have been handled.

Other KR series have also had large casts and have been better than zero one imho so having a large cast isn't the reason why I didn't like this series. Maybe things would have been better if the world wasn't affected with covid 19, but for me I never got into this series. I had high hopes for it too. One thing that was outstanding was the special effects. Zero One by far had the best special effects of any other series.

Many will compare this to ex-aid because of the head writer and while there are some similarities, Ex-Aid is one of my favorite KR series of all time and Zero-One ranks just above ghost to me. Ex-Aid rider forms were also some of my favorite as well. Hyper Muteki is my 2nd favorite form of all time.

I'm glad that others liked it more than I did. I'll read this thread again in a week and see what others have said they liked about zero one and rewatch key episodes and see if I like it on the 2nd go around.