[Daikaijuman54]

So... Faiz arc...

Again, I've been going off of memory, while occasionally glimpsing the thread to sort of recap, but even that can only get me so far, but here goes nothing.

From what I remember upon my first viewing, Faiz and his bike-mech looked really cool, and the monsters, the Orphanoc, while slightly dull on their color palette, made up for it with their designs, which pretty much outweighs their colors, at least to me.

Not sure why they went with a high-school setting, probably to add some sort of theme for AR Faiz's world to make it memorable (which to be honest, kind of works, because that's one of the few reasons I remember this arc), but even for someone who hasn't seen Faiz (except for his cameo in the Showa vs. Heisei movie and Zi-O's tribute episodes) doesn't have too much attachment to whether or not they did him justice. (Of course, from what I gathered from people so far is something, something, cuss you, Kusaka.)

DiEnd, as mentioned, isn't too different from the Treasure Hunter trope(?)(but even I'd take that over a list of other tropes I dislike), but as a newcomer, I thought he was pretty neat. His design was a crazier look from the Decade aesthetic, he had a cool gun, and his theme song is good (of course, I kind of like Ride The Wind a little better). I don't entirely get Tsukasa's beef with him, even after the show, and the sea cucumber line still loses me, probably not high on my list of Secondary Riders, but I don't think he's the worst. But at least his Final Form Rides are a little more interesting (at least not as weird as Decade messing with the other Riders).

Also, thank you everyone for pointing out Ankh's actor being in this! My reaction was pretty much just like Enchalada's.