OMG SUBS FOR THIS SEASON ARE FINALLY STARTING TO COME OUT. *flings self at d-addicts*

[beckerbell]

You know what I need to stop doing? Going to HJU and clicking on the Kabuto threads. It pains me when people miss the point of the series, especially re: Kagami's character. And yet I keep going back! WHY. Especially when 4chan is so much better for my mental health! I love 4chan's reactions to any given Kamen Rider series, but especially

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[beckerbell]

I can understand some hate towards Den-O for how IT WILL NOT FREAKING DIE, despite that it's well past its time, I mean, we've gone all the way through Kiva (were the Den-O cameos/references in the KIVA MOVIE really necessary?) and now we're into Decade and Den-O STILL WON'T STOP, but actually hating Den-O itself? DO NOT UNDERSTAND. DEN-O WAS AWESOME!

OH MY GOD, THIS IS A SHOW AIMED TOWARDS THE 9-12 DEMOGRAPHIC, NOT THE GURO BODY HORROR FETISHISTS

I am seriously kind of impressed--which is maybe not the right word, but about the only one I can think of--at HOW MUCH it genuinely freaks me out what they do to the Riders' bodies in those scenes. How can they NOT know how horrifying it comes off on? I don't even have a squick for that, yet Decade manages to SQUICK ME OUT ANYWAY.

I know I'm shooting myself in the foot by always looking up spoilers, that kind of ruins the fun of seeing stuff actually happen, but. It's hard not to get curious. And then you're hit with something like the Ryuki world or Tsukasa's hair in the Agito world and it's just. I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF DECADE ANYMORE.

IS IT GOOD? IS IT JUMPING THE SHARK ALREADY? IS IT KIND OF TERRIBLE AND I JUST ONLY NOTICED NOW? I DON'T KNOW!

Does Blade keep up that pace throughout the whole series then? It's kind of exhausting, but nice to have a KR series that actually breaks out the plot and does something with it RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING again.

I-- I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel about Decade. It's kind of confusing. .__.

[reisha]

well I mean ._. Den-O is the rider series of my heart but I was still sort of ?????? when the announcement was made. ...which will not stop me from pining for the Cho Den-O movie until it's out on DVD at the end of the year. Or watching the new series if the rumours are true. >_>

I saw spoiler (?) pictures for the future FFRs because they're making TRANSFORMABLE FIGURES FOR THEM. Some of them are like AUUUUGHH and some of them are like 'h-how does this even make sense?'

I'm going into Decade not having watched a lot of the previous Kamen Riders, and I think it actually works in my favour because despite the confusion, I harbour no outrage towards the Ryuuki world, even if it was a complete trainwreck.

I... I think it's good...? It was becoming really slow for a while but I find the new rider HILARIOUS which picked up the last couple of arcs for me, plus next week they're going to the Den-O world, so. And Masahiro seems to have worked out most of the kinks in his acting. ...and even if we don't go into FFRs, I really love the henshins and attacks in DCD because they're so smooth and classy *o*

[beckerbell]

I... I'll probably crab about it (relying on continuing a single series forever is never the way to keep the franchise moving, imo) but I'll totally be there and totally love it. I think I'd probably feel the same way even if Den-O were the series of my heart, too.

Ahahaha, I've only watched three episodes of Ryuki, so my problem with the world is that it made no sense whatsoever, rather than that it ~*ruined*~ a world I liked. But, then, I'm not really sure what I'm expecting from Decade, if it's meant to be serious (like Faiz or Blade) or if it's meant to be comedy (like Kiva or Den-O) or if it's meant to be somewhere in the middle (like Kabuto) and that's sort of messing with me.

Though, I gotta say. Decade's henshin and attack sequences are easily the prettiest I've ever seen. *__* (Though, idk, I really liked the ones in Kiva, too. So maybe I'm just like the general trend they're going in.)

[reisha]

re Blade: at episode 22, I've gone through at least... 4? 5? major arcs and reveals. It really moves fast, but it's exciting and I like the characters, even the stupid ones, so xD

[beckerbell]

I love stupid characters when they're kind of supposed to be stupid, it's when I get the feeling that I'm supposed to find their situations/reactions reasonable that I start wanting to crab about it. XD This is why, looking back at my reactions over the last few series, I think I generally have more positive reactions to Sentai at first, because I'm totally there for the stupid. I just get bored with the repetition, while KR series hook me in with their plots instead. So, I should be good with Blade. XDb