[Kurona]

I can definitely relate to Kamijo's motivation not hitting me at all. I'm a very themes-before-plot person; if the mechanisms of the story or how it's delivered aren't quite working but all of what it actually means is still there I'm very happy to let it off the hook (to a degree I think it's necessary for watching Tokusatsu), but sometimes it's stretched just... a little too thin. It's as you say; it's way too much delivered in such a short space of time to really comprehend it and it needed far more fleshing out than what it got, but it's treated as... maybe not understandable, but they expect you to just take it as a baseline without anything further? It doesn't even begin to work for me.


I kinda dropped my little "saber-suits-are-so-good" corner because I kept forgetting but I'm absolutely gonna revive it for a bit to say Dragon Alangina is one of my favourite things ever? Strong contender for my favourite Saber suit and it's the one golden moment everything in this show came together for me; I haven't seen a Rider show really use the nature of its powers and tools like this purely for character work without it being motivated by a specific new powerup in a long time, and it just hit seeing Touma be powered up by two main Ridebooks like that and change up his entire fighting style to accomodate the sword of his lost beloved friend. Nothing in the Kento story even worked for me! It failed to hit me in the same way the Kamijo stuff did! But this form and everything they did with it was so incredibly good it made me believe in the strength of that story for a whole episode!


oh yeah and Dragonic Knight is really sexy too you really just can't go wrong with that thing