Kamen Rider Blade.

[cypsiman2]

Now your power is at its peak10,000 years ago, a group of immortal monsters known as the Undead faced off in an intense Battle Royale, each one representing a different species of life on Earth, to determine which species would become the dominant life on Earth. The Human Undead won, sealing all other Undead within playing cards, and thus was our

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[acmeeoy]

Fun fact: The old guy who held a large responsibility for releasing the Undead was played by the same actor who was the human identity of Ultraseven. Amane's actress returned as a Zodiart for Fourze.

I think Mutsuki's trauma would have been more understandable if he wasn't a baby but kid at any point in his preteens. Casting a child actor wouldn't have been that tough, since Kenzaki's wasn't around much either. Also, the time he helped people up a bunch of stairs into the light and sealing that Undead with the bird in a cage would be the capstone of his development but lol nope.

The designs for the Undead looked weird, since I had trouble thinking most of them have some unnecessary parts that would get in the way of being the dominate species of the Earth. I guess they could evolve further but the human undead didn't look much different. At least some of the Undead characters were nuanced.

[cypsiman2]

And also, the principal in Fourze was Tachibana here in Blade.

Yeah, Mutsuki's trauma was just so bizarre and melodramatic, and then they never brought it up again but he was still acting not all there, so just...yeah, it was a mess and if this were a book I would have suggested another draft or two before publishing Mutsuki's part of it.

I can see where you're coming from on the Undead designs being cumbersome, my personal taste just differs on this matter I suppose.

[acmeeoy]

And Taichi from Agito and Alternative from Ryuki. They seemed to cram in guest spots for past major or supporting Rider characters.

And then Mutsuki acted like a suave poker player, which was kind of hilarious.

I guess I just have trouble picturing most of the Undead as the single dominant species of a planet. Near the end, there was a plot point I don't remember where I went "can't Kenzaki just wish for every Undead to have a habitable planet to themselves in the universe?"

I initially had trouble telling three of the Riders apart because shoulder-length hair was a thing in the early noughts.

[cypsiman2]

Indeed, so if I ever go back and rewatch Fourze after having watched all the other Heisei riders, then I'll be able to appreciate all the guests all the more. Though, W did have a lot of guest actors, especially from Sentai.

And he was never so annoying or pointless that I just wanted him gone the way some other riders have been, so at least there's that.

I imagine it would have been a lot like with Hajime, where despite clearly not wanting to destroy everything, his nature as a Joker Undead meant that was what was going to happen, and since Kenzaki is also a Joker type Undead, it would go the same way.

That was especially bad for me, as I'm pretty bad at recognizing faces in general.