Kamen Rider Zi-O Episode 1

[nightjaeger]

That was pretty danged amazing.

Tokiwa is such an endearing guy (and very pleasant to look at). Geiz is really irritating - he's meant to be tough and whatnot, but he doesn't come across that way at all, just very full of himself.

I really liked how easily Tsukuyomi was able to take care of Build and Cross-Z. It not only showed how capable she is (and her gun has such a cool visual effect), but it made me wonder: if she is so tough, why couldn't she and a whole army defeat Oma Zi-O?

I'm very impressed with the Zi-O suit design and the henshin poses for both Riders. The visual effects are all just quite generally very cool, too.

I wasn't overly fond of the little person who gave the Build watch to the basketball player. I think they will grow to annoy me very quickly. Woz, however, seems absurdly cool. I kinda want Zi-O to become the evil demon king just so Woz can be happy, 'cause he seems just so lovely.

A really good start, I feel.

Comments

[sonofgodzilla]

The first episode is really shaky. Actually, the first arc full stop is shaky, but I was never sure if I felt that way because I don't know any of the Riders. It starts to get a lot more interesting later on though I'm still waiting for it to really become the show it could be.

And, seeing as I can't do anything without pimping my version of the show, I'm just going to leave this here once more: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13106103/1/Heartjacker

[nightjaeger]

I gather from RiderWiki that the references to past Riders in the first couple of arcs are really specific - like, there's a bit with a Rider from Ex-Aid overlapping with something from OOO where you need to know Ex-Aid pretty well to fully grasp.

Frankly, I'm really just in it for the DCD and Ryuki stuff. :)

Fanfiction: bookmarked!

[sonofgodzilla]

Yeah, they're really not wrong.

But when the DCD stuff kicks in, it's really good - never properly explained and leaves everything hanging like a loose end whilst the series 'does a Hibiki' and goes sideways, but for that brief moment, it's really good.