[DreamSword]

I've finished the main course for Kamen Rider Saber.

If you want the short version of my opinion on it, it's that, unfortunately, I don't see the magic in it that many others do.

Do I think the show is out and out horrible? No, but it made alot of decisions, both character and plot-wise, that just really didn't gel with me. Act 1 showed promise, but after that things nosedived without any real big recovery.

What cemented it in my eyes was a moment in episode 44, wherein every Swordsman is gathered in a grand "Everyone's here, united" sort of moment, and it was therein that I realized "Wow, I don't care about most of these people." And that's a very damning sign for how I tend to approach these shows.

Even things wherein I liked the idea, I felt the execution lacked. Probably the biggest example being that, as much as I liked Ren and Desast's' story, and the lesson that what works for everyone else won't necessarily work for you, the setup in how it all came about felt rather forced to me, and Desast dying meant that one of the few characters I cared about was now just gone.

I guess fittingly enough, it feels alot like Ghost in that one's enjoyment of Saber seems to very heavily depend on how quickly they get emotionally invested, and the show just kinda never hit any sort of high point for me in that regard. So even bigger moments like in the finale really just made me go "Sure" at best. No disrespect to those who love the show; it just wasn't really for me at the end of the day, and I give it a 2/6.

Still gotta get through the post show content though. Might post about those, might not. We'll see.