Best and Worst Kamen Rider Finales

[Lynxara]

I would be very curious to see if there was anyone who'd be willing to argue that any Rider show's ending was worse than Decade's.

 

[Kenori]

Decade's ending suckiness is directly proportionate to how Shitacular his movie followup was.

If that movie had delivered HALF the crap it promised in that ending trailer, then I wouldnt hate the ending to Decade nearly as much.

 

[Khaiden]

Faiz's ending is absolutely PERFECT. It is the icing on an otherwise awesome cake. Faiz is a series with one theme: life after tragedy. Everything about this series, from the big bads, to the main and side character plots, have something to do with this theme. No matter how bad you have it, no matter how hard things are, no matter what happens in your life, you have to push onward. You see it in the whole theme of the bad guys for the year. The way the orphenochs had some kind of tragedy and died because of it. You see it near the last episode when Keitaro loses Yuka.

Now, that's a nice way to look at it, but I think all they needed to accentuate this was that final scene when Takumi finally says he has a dream.
Of course, it's understandable why Orphenoch King has to be kept alive.

So they don't show the fight with the Orphenoch King. The Orphenoch King was a silly one off monster anyway. I thought it was PERFECTLY symbolic of the overall plot to Faiz. You don't need to see the death of the Orphenoch King because the death of the Orphenoch King is completely irrelevant to the overall story trying to be told.

We did see the fight, as short as it was. And we did see the ''death'' of the Orphnoch King, you can see how he gets Rider kicked clearly.

So yeah, Faiz's ending has a lot deeper meaning than a lot of people with the "OMG WHAR THE EXPLOSIONS?!" mentality can usually see. Hell, I probably would have been one of those people if it that series hadn't resonated with me so well.

I think most of the hate is not about the lack of explosions, but more about the lack of deaths. I still think it was a bit unnecessary to keep Lobster Orphnoch alive.

 

[MattComix]

Now, that's a nice way to look at it, but I think all they needed to accentuate this was that final scene when Takumi finally says he has a dream.

But his dream just ends up being Keitaro's silly world peace through clean laundry thing!

Even putting aside that, I think for that moment to really work they needed to give Takumi a dream of his own. The laundry thing might work for Keitaro because it's goofy yet sincere, which is kind of what his character is supposed to be. But it really falls flat as a dream for Takumi. For a character to have had "I have no dream" as a major point, he really should have been given something of his own rather than a hand-me-down from one of the supporting characters.

 

[Kenori]

Mattcomix has a point. Ill elaborate more on this when I'm not on my cell phone

 

[Toku Prime]

I would be very curious to see if there was anyone who'd be willing to argue that any Rider show's ending was worse than Decade's.

What ending, they didn't bother with one :anime: Decade was my first show and I had no expectations. I ended that series hyped up to check out all the other riders I'd seen glimpses of. On the other hand Hibiki has some of my all-time favourite episodes of Kamen Rider, so when that show went low it felt like a much bigger drop. Is Hibiki's ending worse than Decade's? No, but it felt like it at the time :disappoin

 

[Khaiden]

But his dream just ends up being Keitaro's silly world peace through clean laundry thing!

Even putting aside that, I think for that moment to really work they needed to give Takumi a dream of his own. The laundry thing might work for Keitaro because it's goofy yet sincere, which is kind of what his character is supposed to be. But it really falls flat as a dream for Takumi. For a character to have had "I have no dream" as a major point, he really should have been given something of his own rather than a hand-me-down from one of the supporting characters.

I absolutely loved it when he said that. He has become a full-fledged Kamen Rider. His dream is to help others and rid the world of as much evil as possible. He just says that in Keitaro's words, because that's what Keitaro wanted too. I think Takumi was metaphorically speaking at the end.

 

[KingRanger]

I have always wondered why Faiz's ending gets so much hate? I will never understand it.

Faiz's ending is absolutely PERFECT..

It gets hate because it was awful. They shoe horned in Kiba as the final villain so they could have a final battle. There was no resolution AT ALL in faiz. I find it really funny that you can't see that.

 

[bleachjoj]

It gets hate because it was awful. They shoe horned in Kiba as the final villain so they could have a final battle. There was no resolution AT ALL in faiz. I find it really funny that you can't see that.

Exactly. Kiba went 180 just so the show can have another antagonist. Then turns good again and the show just ends. Actually Faiz's problem is that the characters don't act like real people.

 

[Guardian07]

I'm getting the bad stuff out of the way first.

Decade - I hate the ending so much I made up a different one in my mind. The Tsukasa/Decade we know is actually an imperfect copy or clone of some sort of the main villain, Dark Decade the destroyer of worlds. In the end Kamen Rider Decade teams up with the Heisei Riders in a final showdown with Dark Decade and put him down once and for all.

Narutaki would have been right all along that Decade is the destroyer of worlds, he just got the wrong one. It explains Tsukasa not having any memories at the beginning of the show; just having been born, he doesn't have any memories to remember. It explains Tsukasa's personality; being a "offshoot" of the original, while he's a dick he's not evil like the original one and had a capacity for good. Also, IT MEANS DECADE HAD A MAIN VILLAIN OF HIS OWN!!!

Now how hard was that? That said, watching Kamen Rider Decade during its run were some of the most fun I had watching a Kamen Rider show.

Hibiki - Though some parts irked me, I was overall pretty neutral on Hibiki's ending. And that's the problem. "It's ended, huh?" I said out loud, and just shrugged. Which is a terrible shame because I really enjoyed most of the series.

Kiva - not a terrible ending but the last length of the series was so agonizingly bad.

Kabuto - It was mostly a let down and waste of potential(Hiyori, being built up as one of the most important characters in the series, spent the least few episodes cooking and ignorant of everything that's happening. And don't get me started on how they clumsily attempt to explain away the Red Shoes System. Or how the Hoppers were wrote out of the story after being treated horribly by the writing). The ending itself was not too bad, just kinda "meh".

Best endings

Black - Epic. Emotional. Bittersweet. Tragic. Heroic. And still I don't think I did the ending justice. I was depressed for weeks(okay, maybe just two) after the final episode.

Kuuga - Kuuga's formula is a very unique among Rider shows, and the last two episodes were the perfect end-cap for that formula. That last fight goes down as one of my absolute favorite fight scenes in Kamen Rider, not just because of the awesome choreography and filming, but the stakes behind it, the emotions, the tragedy, and the underlying subtext of the scene.

W - A lot of people came down on the final episode for "bringing back Phillip". They don't talk about how it brought closure to Wakana's personal growth and the fate of the Sonozaki family, expanding Shoutaro's character just a little bit more, and put forth its own interpretation of the notion "hard-boiled", which I for the most part agreed to. Wakana went through the entire series as a puppet, used and manipulated by everyone around her. Even when she does it willingly, she's still to some degree manipulated. The last episode is her taking control of her own mind and making a decision on her own, with the only help is Shroud telling her to do what she thinks is right. And she decided to use all her godly powers to recreate Phillip's body. It's not some cheap fake-out. The Gaia Impact, which has the potential to turn every human being on earth into Dopants, is used for one purpose; recreate Phillip's body.

I wholly admit it's not perfect. The last episode was really rushed, and I had to watch it twice to get everything. But I just loved what it wanted to convey. Besides I really think the ending works perfectly as an epilogue chapter of a novel.

The rest are in-between, with Agito, OOO, and Blade as the better ones. And I've only watched Black and Black RX for the Showa era. Black RX's ending was great, but not the best.

It gets hate because it was awful. They shoe horned in Kiba as the final villain so they could have a final battle. There was no resolution AT ALL in faiz. I find it really funny that you can't see that.

I wouldn't say it's perfect but I don't think it's as horrible as you made it out to be. Kiba went through so much **** and still believed in the good in people, then had everything thrown in his face yet again, when Yuka was killed by humans and that finally pushed him over the edge. He was a mental wreck when Takumi kicked his ass and roused his ideals once again. Finally, in a moment of "F it, I don't care about anything anymore", he tried to believe again and fought alongside Takumi, and died a hero.

In my opinion, he acted very human and illustrated the very 'real' clash of one's ideals and the realities of the world around him. At one point he turned on his ideals, and then sought to regain them back. It showed him as a very conflicted, and human, character.