Kamen Rider Decade, was it a complete disappointment?

[Galaxian]

Decade is my favorite series and the real reason I got into KR in the first place.

I had only seen Den-O and Kiva before I watched Decade, and I only saw those two as preparations for Decade, so I wasn't attach to any of the original Riders who got left out of the series. Still, watching other KR series now, I can see that Decade did not completely ignored his older fans, and each world is riddled with small inside jokes and Easter Eggs from the previous series (like the tennis scene in Faiz's world)

The plot is paper thin, but that's because it's actually made up of several different little stories that are being interrupted one after the other by Decade. The plot becomes more complex when one takes into a count that each world that Decade visits have had a developing story which started way before the series.

It lacks character development, because it never truly tries to develop the characters. At the beginning, we know as much about Tsukasa as he himself does, so the story cannot be about changes to his character if nobody knows how he truly was to begin with. Instead the series focuses on revealing who Tsukasa truly is to the audience through his interaction in the different world. It's kind of like a character study about Tsukasa.

 

[Wing Saber]

I admit that Decade's excution needed work. Other than that, it was still very exciting to watch, especially in seeing all the Riders team-up together again. As well as being the first to crossover with a Sentai.

As for the AR worlds, it opened the possibility of what could have happened in the original versions. So it was a very flexable series.

 

[Nnnkingston]

Considering that Decade was my third series, I didn't really have super high expectations because I wasn't super hyping it.

 

[Dark Kabuto]

I never said i hated decade, i'm on the fence about it, while i don't like it at the same time i don't hate it, i don't think it's amazing or that it sucks in my opinion it's somewhere in between.

It's a relatively short series compared to other Kamen Rider series. You'll be able to finish it in a couple of days, so there's really no reason why you shouldn't give it a chance.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

http://reggiocomics.blogspot.com/2010/10/scans-kamen-rider-double-character.html
http://forums.henshinjustice.net/showpost.php?p=1126597&postcount=13817
http://forums.henshinjustice.net/showpost.php?p=1128748&postcount=13846
http://forums.henshinjustice.net/showpost.php?p=1129389&postcount=13852

Found it! So does anyone know if Decade ever had anything like this released? I imagine the information in there might be really interesting.

 

[Bad Wolf]

It wasn't my favorite series when it first aired, but after a re-watch, I found myself to like it a bit more, I still think that some things could have been better planned out (the Final Form Rides, Diend, The movies, the return of Shocker).

In my book it was an alright series, not great, just alright.

 

[FieryRed]

I don't recall ever reading anything like that from the data file. I'm searching it for right now, I remember Kou translated most of it here in a thread a few months ago. I think what took me by surprise the most was that I sort of got the impression W was meant to be the series for 2009 while Decade was a last minute thing, which is why I'd love to see any sort of data stuff on it translated one day, especially now that they can talk about issues that went on during the show as well. Decade's production seems pretty unique among Kamen Rider shows that it would probably be a bit more interesting than most.

I always thought that it was kind of weird to see Decade having only 31 eps, whereas other KR series usually have close to 50. And Decade's premise, even though it is basically a series built around tributes for Heisei KR, has a really thin plot that just revolved around Tsukasa Kadoya and his travel through other AU and gained the designated Rider's powers. At first, I thought it was an interesting show, but it just couldn't hold my attention even with its shorten season. And Tsukasa, as a protagonist go, was not very interesting nor was he a sympathetic character for me to root for. I thought a series like this would've gotten alot of pre-planning from Toei, and its storyline would've been more well thought-out, but I didn't get that feeling from watching the show.

 

[Savior Den-o]

Decade is only series I can watch with a guilty pleasure

 

[Galaxian]

Not even guilty pleasure for me (that's for the Cho Den-O series :laugh, I just thoroughly enjoy Decade.

 

[big_j_ny]

Decade is still one of my favorite series............but it is because this Rider series was my "gateway drug" to watch the other Heisei Riders not named Kiva at the time.

The only major disappointment was the planning of the MAIN PLOT (which they basically flat out stated in Movie Wars 2010 that "Decade had no story"), which you can basically blame on the entire production crew from top-to-bottom...........since I don't even think Riku Sanjo or any better writers could have fixed the mess of Decade's plot, especially since the show already had 3-4 writers taking over one another in the show.