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Lol apologies if I gave you a bit of an essay to read :sweat: I do tend to ramble on about the things I like.Thanks for all your info Toku Prime, its much appreciated. I am indeed a lover of good, meaty storylines, preferably coupled with interesting characters where the heroes aren't always clear-cut and the villains have a bit of depth to them.
I'm a sucker for all things retro/vintage so dated effects don't put me off one bit, if anything they appeal to me even more than contemporary CGI! :laugh: I think I'd like to get stuck into a Kamen Rider - I've always heard good things of Faiz, BLACK, Kuuga and Agito.
Black was a fun show. It's well known for the high-tension storyline in its' final arc, but it's not all gloomy as there's a lot of times where the actors clearly realise that they've been given some pretty cheesy lines to recite and respond by really chewing the scenery. :laugh:
Kuuga is one of the most beloved Rider series and a lot of people would argue it has one of the best stories. It's really a combination of Kamen Rider and a Japanese police procedural show (which are supposedly well known for being slow-burning, atmospheric character dramas) and it digs into the characters much more than a lot of other toku shows.
Agito is the series that set the template for the other Rider shows that came after it. It's often said to be the greatest toku work of Toshiki Inoue (the other contender being Choujin Sentai Jetman which tbh I prefer :sweat. Those two shows are both up there as some of the best in their respective franchises, but the general feeling is that Faiz is where he started overcooking things a bit. Faiz is very ambitious, but it has some rather major pacing problems and people noticed that Inoue had started to repeat his favourite tropes, which became his bad habit in later Rider shows that he was involved with. I'd say go for Agito before Faiz, but it's up to you.
I'd also repeat my suggestion of the current show Kamen Rider Gaim. The shows from the early 2000s have a reputation as being the Rider shows with more involved storylines but Gaim really got back to that and I dare say it's surpassed at least a few of them. It introduces seemingly clear-cut good and bad guys, only to slowly reveal another side to those people that cause allegiances to shift and really mixes things up.