Hibiki attempted to change too many things at one time, and as such it turned off a lot of long time Kamen Rider fans by doing this, to the point that a lot of people just don't want to watch it because it's "not a real rider"
Once the series changed hands a lot of the viewers came back because it had a more familiar feel to it, and fortunately there wasn't too great a change to kill the reasons why its fan base had become so in love with it to begin with.
I for one loved the series. Its currently my favorite KR series to date thanks to the characters, the writing and some of the best KR music to date.
That's possible. She reminded me of Magiranger's Rei from her crying scene. If you compare the Magi ep and the scene in the Hibiki movie you can see where I thought it was the same person.
I rewatched from ep 1 to 33
And my opinions is still the same as the actors about the latter half, it wasn't good =/
Still i'm happy with what i got in the first 29 episodes ^_^