[chasesinister]

Finished the series now. It was good. It maintained the action, excitement and intensity all through out. It wasn't perfect but what show is really?

When you're following Shido, the main character, the story flows very well but the problem is the secondary story of Asakura the PM candidate. When the episode focuses on her and her family the story slows down quite a bit. I just didn't care much about her family problems especially her power hungry husband who wants to bask on the reflected glory of being the husband of the PM. Their side of the story just doesn't compare to the main plot.

Another thing is that a few characters disappeared in the show particularly on the side of the villains. A couple of assassins that were prominent in the early episodes just vanished without explanation. The female assassin who started the chain of events by blowing up a passenger airplane was told to do something in episode 3 and never seen again. Same with the assassin that made the first attempt at Asakura. After the attempt failed he was told to go to plan b but whatever plan b was we never know because he disappeared as well.

And the big twist in the penultimate episode, I saw coming by episode 2. I wouldn't say it's the show's fault but more of me being genre savvy. I've seen the US version and other shows of similar genre and I know that when betrayals happen in this shows usually the biggest traitor is the main characters biggest ally. It just always is. I'll give them credit for trying to hide that in the middle episodes but it never tricked me one bit.

As far as our toku friends go, the show was not very kind to them. Only Bouken Silver and Dr. Pacman survive the end of the series. Everybody else gets killed. A lot of toku on toku violence too. Build broke Zyuoh Shark's arm. Dr. Maki kills Zyuoh Shark. Otoya kills Dr. Maki. But hey at least they get to appear on the show.

I don't know if there will be a season 2 of the show. The finale showed that there is an organization behind the main villain who's pulling the strings so there is room for further story lines. I'll be interested for more since the quality of this one was pretty good. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes action and intrigue.