[Daikaijuman54]

I am now here... LIVE!!! (sorry, I had to.)

So overall, I really liked this episode... Of course, once again, Reiwa is still a little on the shaky ground in the early episodes (barring Zero-One, which had a fantastic start).

First off, the Introduce Every Rider In The First Quarter routine, which isn't too big of an issue in a show that's supposed to introduce a bunch of cool looking suits, but then a lot ends up getting sidelined. For instance I love a lot of the Genomes for Revice, but once he gets his first power-up, they're going to become completely irrelevant, granted they will sprinkle them every now and again, but it's mainly the Rider's themselves who get the short stick. Demons has a Death Flag, partly because his belt isn't a standard release, second being his catchphrase as people have pointed out. Evil, we might not see until something really big happens.

Now I actually liked Live's debut, but I have to agree with some of the criticisms about his design, as it does look a little generic. Maybe the visor could have looked more bat-like, or been a different color. Maybe his undersuit should have been a different color, instead of using Evil's because the colors feel a little off (Elemental Dragon comes to mind). But overall, when you consider how crazy some of the other suits in Revice look, he's definitely the weakest.

I actually don't dislike Vice, Interestingly enough. But these abilities he can use are definitely going to be forgotten (remember the Vicecicle?), and he kind of deserves more spotlight than just being the "funny guy." He has some pretty strong scenes when he's alone with Ikki, but when he fights, he's just sort of... there. In short, he needs to take a few steps forward and a step back, which now that I say this, I think the whole season could learn that going forward. I also think that Vice is so peppy and goofy because Ikki is always going out of his way to be so nice, which actually fits how he's an attention hog which spawned Kagerou.

I like Hiromi (yes, I don't mind the crying scene), I like George (who I'm convinced is the mastermind who just wants to live the Kamen Rider experience he's always dreamed of), but this show is falling under the pacing issues of Saber (which I honestly believe Saber did a better job at).

And now Sakura's going to join Deadmans... At least we're getting this out of the way early.

Next Episode: (Vice) "Ikki, think can you hit a woman?"