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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Well, that’s the end of the show. I’m not quite sure how to put my thoughts on the episode individually, so I think I’ll just put my thoughts on the whole series in.

The good:
Shiguru. I like that that for once the show was ironically using the “Blue thinks he’s cool because he never smiles and knows a few poorly pronounced words of English” archetype, which just makes him all the more enjoyable.

The comedy. While I didn’t think any of the comedy in the last two shows was bad per se, this show basically thrives on it.

Carantula. Just goes to show that the guy who’s most likely to get a redemption is the guy you don’t think will get one until it comes up.

The ending theme. I will be sorely disappointed if Takashi Deguchi doesn’t come back for a later series.

The not as good.

The show’s theme of creativity. As much as the show likes to pride itself on this concept, other than one episode with Shiguru working on a new sword technique, no-one actually creates anything. Even Juru, the one guy who does this on a regular basis, is basically just altering things that already exists (namely, the Kiramai Stones). Yet Garza having done this to Jouki is treated like a bad thing, which kind of undermines the message the show was going for. Which leads to my next point.

Garza. The guy started out as a strong character and his final arc had an equally strong start… but then they squashed it by giving him an anti-climactic redemption that basically required them to rewrite everything we knew about him in order to work.

Yodonna. While the twist of having a humanoid big bad is novel, they did nothing with it afterwards. Most humanoid villains tend to disguise themselves to pull off plans, yet other than her debut, Yodonna never does that.

Garza’s relationships with the main cast. He starts off with a fairly strong rivalry with Juru, but then when Takamichi shows up, he diverts all his attention to him. And then that rivalry gets dropped all of a sudden to go back to Juru for his last two episodes.

The comedy. Yes, I cited this as a strength, but there are times where it can be a bit too much.

The Mecha fights. The lack of any real variety in the combinations used after a while makes the fights feel incredibly stale. The lack at a major combination doesn’t help in this regard.

The sentient Mecha angle. Yeah, people think it’s done better than Abaranger’s, but people don’t really consider that a good example of one, heck in a poll, Juru/Fire wasn’t first place in the Red/Mecha partnerships (that was Sosuke/Speedor), nor was he the second (that was Koh/Tyramigo).

The lack of any real elaboration on Juru’s link with Oradin (and later Galza). The finale tries to answer it but it falls flat and contradicts the start of the series by claiming hat it borough the Kiramagers together, (No, it got one of you onboard. The rest were already together)

Sayo. Don’t get me wrong, she’s great. She just suffers from not getting much screen time.

The bad.

GoKiramager. ‘Nuff said.

Emperor Yodon. The guy was just an unnecessary addition that dragged down the series. He has no personality or clear motives and his final plan is less the culmination of everything in the series so far and more him just making it up on the spot.

With that said, I’d rate Kiramager 5/10. Not bad, but nothing to write home about either. Go-Onger still did basically everything this show did, but better. Even the handoff.

Yeah the backstory was unneeded for the pirated changeman like predator snake villain Yodon emperor. Thus is like genies backstory a low level goon rise to top but feel insecure of his origin in a way, so he lash out to gain power to fuel his ego and hide his true form. They even employed general from planet he conquer destroyed.

I feel lord garza should be the unredeemable villain because the last 2 episodes doesn't feel like there was any personal or emotional stake. I was expecting an epic duke out with super red vs lord garza. Even ryusoulger despite being a poorly written series with the sacrifice at the end and stakes make the final battle more entertaining.
I was expecting the orange kiramei stone to shatter and mabushina must give up her dream to revive her home world to save earth. The whole monologue chant cheering with Yodon just standing there felt so off. Everyone gets a happy ending even the queen is back.

I swore they did another fake out again with Yodon emperor pinned by all 6 kiramager in magazine scans, but it never happened. The same with 02 vs arc1 in last year kamen rider series.
A lot of last minute change possibly like how decade film a fake trailer for his MovieSz a decade agox.

Yodonna will be retuning as well . her movie possibly take place before ending of the series like lupinranger vs. The minjo dream movie starring dan mitsu ft express also confirm to take place very early on in kiramager like a suppose summer movie according to the teaser clip from this finale.