[Daikaijuman54]

I'm going to do a double recap here, because my schedule is pure chaos.

Ryuki arc: Not much to say here, but certainly helped get me interested in watching Ryuki (which I didn't actually watch until earlier this year...). I thought Abyss looked cool, the Final Form Ride was neat (albeit, not too original. Also, because I never said it, my first reaction to the Final Form Rides were simply "what the heck...?"), and at this point, I thought the bikes in Ryuki were the coolest looking things.

Now Blade, having semi-recently seen the first two episodes of the actual Blade show, is certainly an interesting take on the source material. Having the Riders in a sort of ranking system was clever, even more so with the four main Riders being the four card suits. And although Blade The Show had a tarot card theme, I was unaware of that upon my first watch, though unfortunately, I have been slightly spoiled about some things in it, I still plan to watch it eventually.

I couldn't help getting amused about Chef Tsukasa, constantly having the image of Gordon Ramsey in head, or even how despite him being a jerk to AR Blade, he ends up helping him in his own special way, whether intentional or not. Also, being reminded about his stupid quote about having the most heart among all Riders, is still one of my favorite Tsukasa Quotes.

Now that I think about it, could Decade's take on the Blade universe have been an inspiration for Zero-One's business theme?