[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Not really, no. He has one moment a couple weeks ago that does justify his presence, but that's about it. Overall, Shunpei and his goofy slapstick is part of Wizard's big identity problem: it tries to be both a serious action drama and a wacky screwball comedy at the same time and, as a result, neither really works that well.

That doesn't sound nice.
It's basically one of the main problems I had with Kiva

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

If it helps, Shunpei does tone things down some after Beast is introduced.

That's better than nothing.

[KyoryuGreen]

Alright I finished Kabuto just now, and loved the series so much. Gatack vs Kabuto at the end was great, Dark Kabuto was amazing, Felt sad for Kick Hopper and Punch Hopper and their ending, loved Tadakoro's and Misaki's endings especially for Misaki honoring Tsurugi. Drake was nice to see at the end. Kagami is totally badass and one of my all time favorite Kamen Riders, I also think part of his personality was the predecessor for Eiji/OOO. Tendou was amazing at the end. Love this series so much. I think I'm going to finish GaoRanger next and then go back to Kamen Rider, I need to give Super Sentai some love.

[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

Alright I finished Kabuto just now, and loved the series so much. Gatack vs Kabuto at the end was great, Dark Kabuto was amazing, Felt sad for Kick Hopper and Punch Hopper and their ending, loved Tadakoro's and Misaki's endings especially for Misaki honoring Tsurugi. Drake was nice to see at the end. Kagami is totally badass and one of my all time favorite Kamen Riders, I also think part of his personality was the predecessor for Eiji/OOO. Tendou was amazing at the end. Love this series so much. I think I'm going to finish GaoRanger next and then go back to Kamen Rider, I need to give Super Sentai some love.

My brotha! Same reaction I had to Kabuto and Gaoranger is one of my top favorite sentais ever!

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by algo448

That doesn't sound nice.
It's basically one of the main problems I had with Kiva

It's a major issue with the show, yeah. As a series, though, I think it comes together much more solidly at the end than Kiva (at least it appears to be).

[ZeoRangerV]

So I'm 10 episodes into Black and I think now is a good time to fire off some early impressions of it.

The good:
* Kotaro is a great Rider. While he isn't particularly developed, he has the straight-up hero qualities I enjoy in the Showa era riders.
* Battle Hopper is an absolute bro. I sorely regret not preordering him along with Black 2.0 and Shadow Moon now.
* The monster costumes for this show are absolutely brilliant, like, some of my favourite I've seen in Kamen Rider brilliant. They aren't overcomplicated, but are still pretty detailed and even grotesque at times.

The bad:
* Gorgom are pretty rubbish at the moment. I mentioned this earlier, but their plans are insanely elaborate for what they get out as an end result.
* The Showa style storytelling with little continuity is really affecting this show. Usually I can get along with it just fine, but Black feels like its a show with ongoing plot that it simply isn't making use of. Nobuhiko's trapped up somewhere and essentially being turned into the Gorgom god, but Kotaro would rather just bum around a coffee shop than actively look for him? I mean episode 10 was even called "Where's Nobuhiko?" and in reality didn't pay all that much attention to him.

It definitely still has my attention, but I hope this is just early pacing problems and not something that's going to plague the entire series.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

* The Showa style storytelling with little continuity is really affecting this show. Usually I can get along with it just fine, but Black feels like its a show with ongoing plot that it simply isn't making use of. Nobuhiko's trapped up somewhere and essentially being turned into the Gorgom god, but Kotaro would rather just bum around a coffee shop than actively look for him? I mean episode 10 was even called "Where's Nobuhiko?" and in reality didn't pay all that much attention to him.

It definitely still has my attention, but I hope this is just early pacing problems and not something that's going to plague the entire series.

No, that's pretty much how Black is. It tries to be both episodic and serialized at the same time and never really finds a good balance.

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

No, that's pretty much how Black is. It tries to be both episodic and serialized at the same time and never really finds a good balance.

Well that's a shame

[Locke]

I had pretty much exactly the same feelings as you Zeo and that is why I got a bit fed up with Black in the end. The villains sucked, the show refused to move anywhere and although I'm glad it isn't Os level of overkill, Black's lack of weapons or forms makes even the action scenes drag after a while as basically every fight is the same with a different mutant photoshopped in.

The inclusion of heroism beside all the monster slaying and stuff was really enjoyable and made for a great novelty for a while, but Kamen Rider clearly has minuscule budgets compared to sentai so I don't come to my Rider shows for the same popcorn fix, I come for more character and drama focus only to find Black has none.

[Powerman293]

Are you gonna watch Black Rx then Locke?

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Are you gonna watch Black Rx then Locke?

Isn't it meant to be terrible?