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New era, new paradigm, new rider, new fresh start. Did it work? To be honest, in a vague sense, yes it did. Zero One was a very necessary redemption for this franchise (Zi-O, as strong as it was, only went so far). Haven't seen anything beyond episode 39, but the series has been on steady track long enough for this bold claim to be made.
1. We still have monsters of the week, this is good. It shouldn't need to be brought up, but after two certain deviants it needs to be brought up. Not as much as usual, but we can blame covid or that.
2. Villains are top notch, no complaints.
3. The writing, sort of mixes OOO and Drive, taking their best elements and merging them into something new.
4. Lots of action, definitely why people come to this.
5. The MC is not wimp, kind of jokey but the guy wins his battles.
6. The secondary protagonists that aren't riders are actually tolerable, that's pretty rare in most rider entries.
7. Unlike Build it actually pulled off the multiple villainous factions schtick decently well and pulled off the political stuff reasonably well.
8. The music is tolerable which is actually saying a lot these days, Kamen Rider hasn't had strong music in a long time (last entry I can remember having a decent OP was Wizard although Drive's was close). On top of that, unlike Ex-Aid, the opening actually occurs in the episodes without being removed for no damn reason.
9. It's pro-technology and man do we need machines to become more advanced than they are now. It feels like tech is so primitive these days. There's that one with the mangaka and "soul" whatever that's supposed to mean, but I never read any manga so I can ignore it.
10. And finally the pacing is actually kind of decent, most episodes have a habit of not feeling slow most of the time, which has been a problem since Ex-Aid's second quarter.
Zero One is based and the kind of based we've desperately needed for a while. Zi-O certainly helped but most of it's successes involved erasing old stains, not only blowing the devil entry the fudge out (although it did a splendid job in the first two episodes). Saber is going to have to be solid in its own right to finally banish the beast into the pit of darkness, but for now it's safe to say Zero One has redeemed Kamen Rider.
1. We still have monsters of the week, this is good. It shouldn't need to be brought up, but after two certain deviants it needs to be brought up. Not as much as usual, but we can blame covid or that.
2. Villains are top notch, no complaints.
3. The writing, sort of mixes OOO and Drive, taking their best elements and merging them into something new.
4. Lots of action, definitely why people come to this.
5. The MC is not wimp, kind of jokey but the guy wins his battles.
6. The secondary protagonists that aren't riders are actually tolerable, that's pretty rare in most rider entries.
7. Unlike Build it actually pulled off the multiple villainous factions schtick decently well and pulled off the political stuff reasonably well.
8. The music is tolerable which is actually saying a lot these days, Kamen Rider hasn't had strong music in a long time (last entry I can remember having a decent OP was Wizard although Drive's was close). On top of that, unlike Ex-Aid, the opening actually occurs in the episodes without being removed for no damn reason.
9. It's pro-technology and man do we need machines to become more advanced than they are now. It feels like tech is so primitive these days. There's that one with the mangaka and "soul" whatever that's supposed to mean, but I never read any manga so I can ignore it.
10. And finally the pacing is actually kind of decent, most episodes have a habit of not feeling slow most of the time, which has been a problem since Ex-Aid's second quarter.
Zero One is based and the kind of based we've desperately needed for a while. Zi-O certainly helped but most of it's successes involved erasing old stains, not only blowing the devil entry the fudge out (although it did a splendid job in the first two episodes). Saber is going to have to be solid in its own right to finally banish the beast into the pit of darkness, but for now it's safe to say Zero One has redeemed Kamen Rider.
