KAMEN RIDER GAIM

[kiryugoji04]

Kain, watch the first episode and tell me it's "just another schoolgirl anime." Please. Humor me.

Although how anyone can find FLCL *boring* is completely beyond me.

[Dr Kain]

So I finally watched episode 4 of Gaim and wow, what an episode. That was quite good. And I have to say it, but I love Ryuden's armor.

[Silver Kamen]

[Inui Takumi]

Anyone else get the vibe that Oren Pierre Alfonso, aka Kamen Rider Bravo, jumped right out of the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series? haha it's crazy. But I will say that it's my least favorite Rider design in the show so far.

[Dr Kain]

[Hellspawn28]

The show is my favorite Rider show since OOO. Foruze was fun and Wizard was a let down, so it's nice to see another Rider show again in the past couple of years. I wonder who the final villain will be again. It would be nice if we got another Kamen Rider as our final villain similar to Odin from Ryuki.

[Inui Takumi]

[Hellspawn28]

The show is much better then Ryuki. Shinji was the most boring and bland main character in an Kamen Rider show ever and the rest of the supporting cast in that show was dull. With Gaim, the main hero is likeable and the other characters are enjoyable so far. Knight, Ouja, Zolda and Odin are the only thing that Ryuki had anything good to ofter.

So far we are 10 episodes into the show and every episode has been great so far. I wish I can say the same for Wizard which started to jump the shark after Phoenix was killed off.

[Dr Kain]

This show has gotten truly incredible.

[Inui Takumi]

[Inui Takumi]

So, what do people think about this show so far? We're about 3/4 of the way through the series.

I'm really loving the story. It feels like a completely different show that what we started with. Hell, it feels different from the show 10-15 episodes ago. The story moves at a good clip and the battles are pretty awesome since they have a lot of meaning. My only gripe is that we've had to stop the show 3 times now to have crossover episode to promote something (ToQger, Kikaider REBOOT, Gaim Summer movie). The last one really hurt since it had almost nothing to do with the current plot and it aired right after a crucial event happened in the story.

Other than that, I'm loving this show so much.

[Dr Kain]

Amazing but the freaking cross over crap needs to stop. They already wasted too many episodes/weeks on this stupid movie tie in crap.

[Dr Kain]

Durian this series, I’ve come to view it as a real peach. It went from cherry and upbeat to dark and serious. I’ve watch a mango through the various stages of the heroes journey and become one of the best examples.

It leaves me pineapple-ing for more and I hope the next series doesn’t fall far from the tree.

[kiryugoji04]

Favorite Rider series, hands down. Holy hell, what a f*cking ride.

[Dr Kain]

The finale was grape, but Jam sucked ass. This series is definitely in my top 5 best rider shows of all time, but Blade, Black, and W still trump it.

[Inui Takumi]

Kamen Rider Gaim has been one of the most fulfilling Kamen Rider stories I've experienced in a long time. From beginning to end, there was always something going on character-wise that kept you invested. With many shows, you'll get to a lull point of the series, usually in the middle of its run, where it feels like the story is just going through the motions until it gets to the end game. With Gaim, aside from a couple of horribly unnecessary crossover episodes, there was always a meaningful development in the story that effected characters in a certain way.

In my opinion, it's one of the best written series in a VERY long time, since there was a natural progression throughout that the story rarely wavered from. It's rather telling when you watch the first arc of the story and realize how different of a show Gaim ended up being but you can still make a thorough outline of how you got from point A to point B.

I've seen mixed opinions on the epilogue episode of the series but I really rather enjoyed it. It didn't reverse anything that happened in the show, which I was very afraid of. And it became a sort of redemption episode for one of the characters. Life continues to go on but the effects of current events are still with the characters. I think that was the best way to go about it and was a great end cap to the show.

I will definitely rewatch the show soon especially after seeing the finale.

[klen7]

[lhb412]

^Wha? Kikaider crossover?!

[sentaison]

[Dr Kain]

Except you can't skip the final episode because then you don't have an actual ending. Not watching the finale is like turning THe Empire Strikes Back off after Luke jumps off the thing.

[klen7]

i think the epilogue took away more than it added especially to both Kouta and Kaito's story lines. All it did for the storyline was a 10 minute "redemption" arc for a villain and relied on a defeated enemy from outside the show's canon in order to do it. It did provide some closure for Jonouchi but otherwise it seems to undermine the endings of Kouta and Kaito.

It did have some humor to it in that none of the cast knew what was going on since the villain was from outside the show.

::EDIT:: Looking back over credits, those three episodes were the only ones not written by Gen Urobuchi. So it would appear the epilogue is just as tagged on as it feels