[AkibaSilver]

Blade is the third Rider series of the 2000's I've seen, after Decade and Den-O, and I wasn't ever sure what I was expecting. I've been watching since Wizard, I know how a modern Rider series works, with the new toys, new powers, and the occasional new twist they pull as things inevitably develop. But Blade was something very different. Occasionally weirder than it deserved, far more subtle in its story beats at times, and at times seeming worlds apart from, say, the concurrent 01. It was unsure at first, but I grew to love it, the characters, their bonds, and then you get to the finale, and the bench hits



I may have cried a little. I'm told it's normal.