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Originally Posted by Kurona

I just don’t find Gaim very good. Structurally it’s well made, and while watching it it is the sort of series that draws you in and makes you want to see where it’s going; but ultimately it just lacks any depth or interesting characteristisation. It’s the sort of series I liked when I was watching it but as time went on I realised there was less and less I actually found interesting or enjoyable. Kind of the same deal with Ex-Aid but to a much lesser degree.

I totally agree with this opinion. Gaim is my least favorite season of Heisei that I've watched so far, which is 19/20. My major problem with it is that most of the characters are so depraved beyond my ability to care what happens to them. At least Ryuki had nice guy Riders like Shinji and Tezuka, and eventually Ren, but Gaim only has Zack. The first 9 episodes are a chore to get through, taking way too long to provide exposition on the setting and characters instead of actually progressing the plot. The content written by Haganeya is even worse and contains a lot of OOC behavior and random nonsensical things happening.

With EX-Aid, I genuinely thought the first 23 episodes concluding with the Genm X arc were very good and the show only started to get messy once the Kamen Rider Chronicle arc started, similar to the competition arc in Zero One, although the latter had a better recovery, rising from the ashes like a falcon! EX-Aid kind of just peaked at 23 and everything after that was just okay. My favorite episode personally though is always going to be 19 where Brave Level 50 debuts against Gatton!