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Favorite New Show of 2022
DonBrothers. I would go with Geats but it's still in it's early phase. Watching this felt like a breath of fresh air to other recent Sentai, with compelling characters, good storylines, kick ass mechas, what's not to love.

Favorite Movie, Miniseries, or Special of 2022: Kamen Rider Vail. Mostly on how much a dark character learns to love and care, like a Beauty and a Beast story.

Favorite Male Lead Character: This was a very tough choice, but I'm gonna have to go with Taro. Mostly on how relatable I find him, plus he's a red whose badass, but has a lot of flaws. I find him relatable because of his need to tell things as is, which I do all the time.

Favorite Female Lead Character: Haruka/Oni Sister. TBH, at first I didn't like her, she was whiny and just thought of herself. But after a certain episode and how she is committed to the team afterwards, she's been pretty stand-up, just on the fact she fully goes along to the craziness that happens in the show.

Favourite Villain: Olteca. Mostly on the fact he is an inhumane piece of crap, how what he does is just to fuel his superiority on others, on how things like life and loyalty mean nothing to him, and will rub it in the faces of anyone beneath him. Plus the fact in the preceding stories, he doesn't get a half asses redemption arc.

Favorite Writer: Toshiki Inoue. This is mostly to do with Donbrothers, but when he delivers, he delivers, when it comes to compelling character arcs.

Favorite Director: Koichi Sakamoto, when it came to a recent Geats episode (see below)

Favorite Suit Design: Kamen Rider Geats. Not everyday when the main rider is a marksman.

Favorite Weapon/Vehicle/Mecha: Don Onitaijin. Not only is it a kick ass form, but just the fact on how it's built up as the real mecha of the season.

Favorite Fight Scene: Kamen Rider Geats episode 15, nuff said.

Favorite Dramatic Scene: Tsubasa and Kijino's confrontation about Miho/Natsumi, which lead to Kijino calling the cops on Tsubasa.

Favorite Comedic Scene: Revice Hyper Battle, all of it.

Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment: Tsubasa eating dog food.

Favorite Song: Donbrothers main theme and ending theme, if both count.

Favorite Piece of Merchandise: Desire Driver, just on the playability of it.

Biggest Surprise of 2022: Ryuki being in the Geats winter movie.

Biggest Disappointment of 2022: Kamen Rider Black Sun. When I first saw the announcement last year, I was thinking "Hell yeah, an Amazons version of Black, and look, it has an upstanding crew, what could go wrong".
Yeah, when I saw it, I didn't think it was an analogy to modern times. Also the fact the main rider seems to jaded and the fact he doesn't have that much victories as Black Sun, plus on top of the fact it didn't feel like a Kamen Rider show, unlike Amazons witch at times it did.