Yellow Stranger
Lurker
I got to side with Kabuto. Garo is overrated, even though I do like the series, but Kabuto is far worse. Tendou Souji acts like a fucking god in the series, to the point where he's boring as hell and the treatment he gets from Fanboys doesn't help at all either. The worms have less of a reason to be around than the freaking Makamou do but yet somehow because they "Molt" and go reallly fast, they are considered great. Then you get an Depressed Yes man, A gimp no one likes, a Pedophile, an Idiot, and a painfully oblivious Worm/Human and have them just fight the worms/each other for 20 episodes. Plot Advancement, other than getting an unnecessary power up for the godmodding Rider? Forget about it, We are 46 episodes into the damn series, and you still don't know what the hell worms are doing besides killing and mimicing humans, which now seems to be a tacked on power, instead of plot relevant. And in mysteries with some of the lamest revolutions to match with them, and it's no wonder why you got a series that only excels the lackluster storytelling of Faiz in flashiness.
Garo, while not being really all that mature, at least had a decent plot twist that I didn't seem coming, and a couple Gonza moments aside, a series that was refreshingly free from an over exgerrating character making a joke of everything.
I'm still wishing for a story to be told as tightly as Blade's was. Yes It was stilll a bunch of silly men in costumes beating each other up and selling toys, but if you paid attention to it even slightly, you began to knew how fucked the riders were, until they found a good solution to beat the undead, and the ending pulled it off beautifully. Yes the Series had it's negative points, but in the end, I feel the way they pulled off the story made the series a stand out amoungst most of the new gen riders I have seen. (Still got to see Agito and Kuuga though.)
But yeah back to my orginal point, I have to agree. Kabuto=Most. Overrated. Rider. Series. EVER.