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New era, new show, new thread! It's Episode 1!

-I'll be rewatching episode by episode again! It's not like Zi-O where I was confused on what my stance after the inital reveal, it's more like.....After I watched Zero One, whenever people'll dicuss it, there's always a bit where I go "Wait, what?!". People really have such a diverse array of Thoughts and Opinions concerning this show that sometimes I jokingly questioned myself if we watched the same show? It's a show that is kinda ripe for analysis on a proper second watch.

-Anyway, the first episode! Drops quite a bit on your head, but only enough that you're not totally drowning in like, characters or worldbulding? It all goes down smoothly and is pretty exciting, imo. Even you're not keen on our protag (more later) as of right now, something here is bound to grip your interest for you to continue onto the next episode.

-Aruto! He's kinda....a loser? Runs around in his high school jersey with the nametag fraying, chronically unfunny, and lost his job. My interest in Aruto at this episode(and the entire show, ngl?) is not "I like/sympatheize with this character and their motivations, and would like to see them uphold/defend those as a Rider". It's more of "How will being a Rider (and the president too, ig) change this guy's life?" Being a charasmtic protagonist that instantly wins you over from the beginning is one thing, but shoving some weird litle freak into the audience's hands and going "trust me on this one!", isn't that more exciting to see?

-Naturally every Rider show has their own unique aesethics, but 01's sticks out to me in particular! The music, the chereo, the finisher cards-all very fun and striking, I love them a lot. Yuya Nawata's preformance as Zero-One has to be one of my all-time favorite Rider preformances, it's just oozes the right amount of spunk for me! (The little spin as he introduces himself, I love it so much!)

-On my general feelings on the show itself. I feel like saying "I enjoyed it!" or "I disliked it!", doesn't really fully capture my inital Zero-One experience. It's..... An Interesting Show. No matter if I was feeling X or Y or Z about whatever it was doing atm, it was always sort of intriguing how this show went about things. (For a simpler answer, if given the choice between randomly popping on an episode of one of Takahashi's Rider series, I'd probably pick Zero-One every time. )