[Kiwami]

Finished it. I'm aware I'm biased at the moment, but this was the best Kamen Rider-entity I have ever seen. Yes, it profits from a lot of factors: No toys to advertise, no creative restrictions to appeal to a certain audience, and a lot of runtime to develop the world, characters and story.

But it's not like all of this automatically guarantees a success. No, they worked hard for this, and it paid off big time.

I'm blown away by how fantastic this was. Everything worked for me. And for how much one could critique this for being very much not Kamen Rider Black, I felt like the spirit was carried on and evolved to a new saga. All of the references were just icing on the cake, the opening to the last episode especially. My jaw dropped when that happened.

It never once felt tacky or weird to me, like so many other "adult"-oriented Kamen Rider projects do, this was a fantastic experience from start to finish.

I did not expect much out of Black Sun to be perfectly honest, so witnessing this made me feel happy. Happy to be a Kamen Rider fan, happy to see Ishinomori's messages still very much intact and worth holding up. This is where it's at, this is where kamen Rider truly shines, amazing stuff!