Charters
Shouichi/ Agito
I’m getting this out of the way right now I am not a fan of
Shuichi at all. At best he's is a dumb idiot and at worse he's a selfish
control freak (he does that too often for me to give a good example). It also
took me a while for me to realize why Shouichi didn't work for me as a main
charter and that would be because he is hardly in the show. For A long of time
he is hardly in this show and he is the main charter. I know people will say
"What about Kenzaki from blade?" which I reply with yes you got me
their but the thing is I like Kenzaki more is the thing.
I know I would not compare to Godai since this is more of a
spin off then sequel but since this is a sequel series I have to do it. Godai
did not have too much in charter (and argue he was bland at times) but he was a
badass who sacrifice himself for everyone else. Shouichi on the other hand felt
more like a Gary Stu at time (not like Takaharu levels but still) with powers
coming out of nowhere and being praised. Hell Godai worked to get to his badass
levels as he did.
Also add in the fact he gave his Agito seed to the OverLord
for real no good reason what so ever you can see why I do not think to highly
of him. While I may not have seen every single rider series yet I can’t say he
is the worst main rider of all time but I can say that he is not my favorite.
Hikawa/ G3/ G3-X
Hikawa's my favorite Rider in the show, while being brash
and hard headed him had a determined and never give up attitude. At times while
the show makes fun of him (and hurts a lot actually) he still manage to say
awesome. I mean heck even when his body is badly bused he works out because he
still manage to prove he is the proper user of the G3 user. And even without
the Armor he is a fine dative as well solving a bunch of cases and using
deceive work it was such a delight seeing him over come all the obstacles to
prove his is the proper user of the G3 armor. You know if Agito was a real
sequel to Kuuga i could totally see Ichijo would have had ended up being G3 but
for what we did get Hikawa is still awesome in his own right.
Ryou/ Gills
POOR, POOR, POOR, RYOU! I do mean that, out of all the 3
riders Ryou had it the roughest with the world keep kicking him even when he's
down. I mean from the very start of the show you can tell he would hated him
from all his friends abandoning him, his swim coach leaving him too, and just
about all his love interest dying on him as well. the world truly does hate
Ryou and even the normal Gills suit is destroyed from heavy water Damage as
well so that explains why we keep seeing more Gills Exceed more than normal
Gills (do question why doesn’t Toei make another Gills suit Oh yeah that's
right that show). I mean the only good thing that does happen to him is he get
a puppet at the end of the show so 2 good thing for him. I mean it gets to a
point where so much bad stuff happens to him you want to punch someone (me it's
Shouichi for too much good stuff happens to him).
The Good
The 3 rider’s styles
Agito rider’s suits were a highlight for the show with
having 3 unique distingue with having the machine police by G3, The organic and
violent/ brute powered that is Gills, and finally the standard form change
rider costume of Agito. All 3 are different but the contras is great with hem
all. And it even shows in their personality’s the one who is stuck up, the one with
the world hates them, and finally the on that fears to be a monster all Showa
rider personalities, mind you they fail at doing so but still I see what they
were going for.
Agito TV special
It’s sad when just 44 minutes of screen time can do charters
more justice then like about just 10-20 episodes. I hated Shuichi but after
this special I actually somewhat like the guy. The charters in here had more
growth then the show itself with also the shining form making more sense and
how Shuichi earned it. Also Houjou punched in the face, AGAIN! And Shouichi is
punched as well.
The Bad
The writing
The writing in this show is very poorly written, what with a
ton of plot points that over stay their welcome, plot points that come and
never explained and also a feeling of this needed another draft. And at worse
at times this feels like I am watching Faiz just slightly better though.
The OverLord
The Overlord is a joke of a villain like I swear everything
that comes out of his mouth is a contrition. At first he says he wants to save
humanity from the unknowns and then kill the humans, he wants to save Agito but
then wants to go ahead want’s him dead. Again have not seen every single rider
villain but he is in the top tear.
Houjou
Just fuck Houjou he really got me so mad at this show that
just he alone made me watching this series unbearable like he was just bad like
really bad. He is an asshole, and liar, a low life, a manipulator, a shack of
shit, unpleasant, deceive, a wanker basically he sucks. Now the reason why I do
not consider him like any higher in the list is because people tell him in his
place. Like yeah people tell him off and all the crap he does because of this
alone I do not put him higher in my books. And believe me he could have been
much worse… MUCH WORSE!
The Grey Area
The Charters
There is a ton of charters in this show and unlike Kuuga
where there is an abundant amount of charters that are useful or just likeable.
But here a majority of the supporting charters are either assholes are not
useful. Don’t get me wrong there are charters I like such as Hikawa and Ryou
but there were charters I hated like Hojou and Taichi or even kino, hell you could
get rid of like Taichi a more annoying charters that would be wonderful things
would be better in the long run. But it does not matter in the end though
everyone and I do mean EVERYONE is at some point cruel as hell and have a dark
side to them as well till very latter on
in the show and like Ttaichi another one would have to be with gills and Agito fighting
because if looks like.
The Unknowns
I’m sorry but I’m putting them on the list. While yes the Unknowns are on the
list I did praise them in the beginning that they were handled well with their
origins but through the show they are their origins are rather screw over at 1
point they are they are either Humans beyond human evolution, the OverLord
Hates them but yet are able to create them. I’m sure there is a better
understanding of their origins in some expanded medium out their but still its
head scratching with their origin.
The Music
This is very objective option right here BUT the music did
not do it for me what so ever. While not all the music is bad mind you but
theirs problems with how the soundtrack is utilize, and some legit problems
with the music as well. Take the opening, probably one of the weakest openings
in a Kamen Rider openings I heard, the singer sounds bored out of his mind and
the lyrics doesn’t make any sense either. And on top of that how the sound
track is utilize like they play the song and then cut out I mean that would not
be so bad… if it did not happen 3 times. And on top of that like the first
theme of the show Believe yourself play in the first half of the show and then
Deep Breath plays as well proving a better transition but they screw that up
with playing Believe yourself AFTER Deep Breath. I mean it’s like imagine herring
Ranbu Escalation and cuts out 2/3 the way in just to play Never Surrender and
instead of seeing Kaito it’s Micchy being showed in the scene. But defiantly
the one that takes the cake is when Shouichi is eating and they play half of
Deep Breath I started to laugh more than anything else
Final Verdict 6/10
This show is disappointing despite all my negative I gave to
worse this show I do not hate it because there is a good show in here somewhere
but the thing in there is just too much stuff to get through to actually enjoy
it. I know I am a minority to not enjoying this show compare to others but
that’s how it is. I mean you could say that I may like Kuuga more than this
show so I am being bios which you’re not wrong by the way but still the fact of
the matter is that I just find the show to be just… OK.
And so ends my last review to come for quite
some time. You see for the longest time I have always wanted to do comics and
after a lot of LIFE EXPERIENCES as it were I decide to go ahead and start on my ambush
project. Not sure if it will be what I hope it will be but I’m going to try regardless
and so then I will devoting more of my time to worse that instead. So sorry to
the people that does see these reviews and thoughts but I have my own dreams,
but I will still report the news however. and I also say thank you to the people that do read these reviews I do appreciate it
