[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by algo448

I'm always watching multiple stuff so it takes me longer.

So are you an Undead? Or the whole "no life" thing is metaphorical?

Why ruin the surprise!

I just marathoned the last episodes of Kiva, and now I think I can give my thoughts.

Overall I enjoyed the series. Wataru was a good, solid, Main Rider and Nago-Kun made a good Secondary. I'm pleased they toned down Shizuko midway through, but saddened they phased her almost out of the series completely. And that's really my overwhelming feeling with the whole series. It was good.. But not without flaws.
IXA is a good example. He used Garuru Fake once, only once, and never explained how he obtained knowldge of them. He had the Sticks for the rest. Yet he only used the ability that one and only time.
Where did Sagark come from? Is he part of the Kivat Bloodline?
Usually, when I watch a Rider series, I feel the Feels. When Kengo 'died' in Fourze when Mezool died and said I love you, Gamel. This show.. It had feels but I didn't feels them.
And then we come to the elephant in the room. That ending, Oh My God What The Hell, that ending. Not The Wedding of Megumi and Nago, that was alright. But Wataru's son from the damn future? .. That's how they end the series?! That I had a real damned problem with.
The real star of this series though is the music. Every peice was Epic and made the scenes worth watching even moreso.

It's a series I enjoyed, but with glaring flaws, and nothing I'd watch again.

[KyoryuGreen]

I loved Kiva but I never really let the glaring flaws bother me and enjoyed a lot of things and really want to watch it again lol.

[KyoryuGreen]

Watched Faiz 28 and 29, really picking up right now. I love Kitazaki and totally not what I was expecting but totally fits for him and knew he was going to be Delta for a bit. I love the Delta outfit looks awesome. I like Sawada joining the Lucky Clover, I find them like the precursors to the Greeed. I'm seeing a lot of things I liked from OOO kind of in Faiz. I loved the awkward dinner scene with the 6 of the main two trinities were eating and asking questions to each other it was so funny. I am happy that we are finally getting Takumi and Yuuji knowing about each other finally. I can't wait for more. Onto Kuuga next.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

It's a series I enjoyed, but with glaring flaws, and nothing I'd watch again.

There may be hope for you yet.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

There may be hope for you yet.

Why? Going to watch Goseiger?

[Matrixbeast]

My biggest flaw with Kiva was the disconnect between Kiva and Wataru.
They go way out of their way to portray Wataru as a mousy, quiet shut in with no real aggression, but Kiva's fighting style is wild and unrestrained. It never gave me the feeling that Wataru was in the suit until Emperor form showed up.

Oh, and Wataru's son and Kivat Bat the 4th were so that they could use the original Kiva suit in the finale.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

My biggest flaw with Kiva was the disconnect between Kiva and Wataru.
They go way out of their way to portray Wataru as a mousy, quiet shut in with no real aggression, but Kiva's fighting style is wild and unrestrained. It never gave me the feeling that Wataru was in the suit until Emperor form showed up.

Oh, and Wataru's son and Kivat Bat the 4th were so that they could use the original Kiva suit in the finale.

That didn't make it any less WTF

[Sentai]

Something else I forgot to mention.

Those stunning visuals. The original Wake Up! kick, Gururu/Bashaa/Dogga's finishers.. Used once and then forgotten. That really disappointed me.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

And that's really my overwhelming feeling with the whole series. It was good.. But not without flaws.
IXA is a good example. He used Garuru Fake once, only once, and never explained how he obtained knowldge of them. He had the Sticks for the rest. Yet he only used the ability that one and only time.
Where did Sagark come from? Is he part of the Kivat Bloodline?

A fundamentally flawed show, with some great concepts that are sadly underused. That's Kiva in a nutshell.

Kiva loved to introduce things and never use them: the fake fuestles, powered ixer, shodoran, buroon booster, even the other forms of Kiva fall on that train.

Sagarc is well... a Sagarc, one of the thirteen Demon Races, not like that was ever explained in the show, out of the 13, the Fangire are the most numerous.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

My biggest flaw with Kiva was the disconnect between Kiva and Wataru.
They go way out of their way to portray Wataru as a mousy, quiet shut in with no real aggression, but Kiva's fighting style is wild and unrestrained. It never gave me the feeling that Wataru was in the suit until Emperor form showed up.

Oh, and Wataru's son and Kivat Bat the 4th were so that they could use the original Kiva suit in the finale.

Kiva was brutal and rarely speaked, Wataru was shy and always stuttered, he looked frail. Emperor and Wataru did feel closer though.

That ending, crazy but at that point I honestly didn't care much.

Of the ending I liked seeing Kouhei Takeda again and seeing New Kiva, leads me to beleive that at some point Dark also had a base Kiva form, and that it's natural for the Kiva suit to evolve.

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Something else I forgot to mention.

Those stunning visuals. The original Wake Up! kick, Gururu/Bashaa/Dogga's finishers.. Used once and then forgotten. That really disappointed me.

Emperor man, frigging Emperor stealing the spotlight.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by algo448

A fundamentally flawed show, with some great concepts that are sadly underused. That's Kiva in a nutshell.

Kiva loved to introduce things and never use them: the fake fuestles, powered ixer, shodoran, buroon booster, even the other forms of Kiva fall on that train.

Sagarc is well... a Sagarc, one of the thirteen Demon Races, not like that was ever explained in the show, out of the 13, the Fangire are the most numerous.

Kiva was brutal and rarely speaked, Wataru was shy and always stuttered, he looked frail. Emperor and Wataru did feel closer though.

That ending, crazy but at that point I honestly didn't care much.

Of the ending I liked seeing Kouhei Takeda again and seeing New Kiva, leads me to beleive that at some point Dark also had a base Kiva form, and that it's natural for the Kiva suit to evolve.

Emperor man, frigging Emperor stealing the spotlight.

Ain't that the truth. They used that Booster once, only once. Shame to I loved that thing. I never saw the disconnect though. I always saw Kiva has Wataru's true self coming through.