Agito is kind of boring, yeah. I don't understand the fascination. When using language exchange apps for Japanese, I've usually brought up the subject of toku and people around my age, late 20's, all remember it fondly from when they were kids and enjoy it the most out of all the Rider they saw as kids. Very weird and confusing. Maybe its better if you switch your brain off.
I generally watch these with my brain off already so this isn't a good sign haha.
Agito basically plot dumps most of that in the end lol
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Dang, kind of a bummer because while there is
some intrigue happening it's not really anything crazy or interesting enough to keep me super invested.
Also I only see stuff people I know who like Toku say. Not really hip to the general consensus on these shows.
I'd guess Agito's success was due to the combination of the increased drama with the running mystery plot. Agito actually was a pretty big mainstream success at the time. Its ratings increased even more over Kuuga's, reaching the 10s which is actually kind of crazy since even 80s toku struggled to get to that level in spite of higher average tv ratings. There's a reason Inoue led the franchise for so long afterwards, only getting a diminished role after several consecutive failures. Still, if the drama is actually annoying you rather than making you look forward to the next episode then, yes, I can't see you enjoying Agito much.
In addition to that though, if you don't like Agito I really doubt you'll enjoy Faiz. It follows the same format dragging on mysteries for most of the show with tons of drama to delay everything, only with a bleaker tone, but in Faiz's case the answer to the mysteries and overall story resolution is rather messy and rushed.
That's interesting. I find Agito to be a huge step down from Kuuga in just about every way so far. In terms of characters, story, mystery, writing, directing. It's just a whole lot less appealing and feels really bland in comparison. I kind of find the way Kuuga went about things to be incredibly unique and masterfully told in a lot of ways. Not to say it doesn't have flaws, but I wasn't expecting anything from the show only to be blown away by just about every aspect of it only to be followed up by a show I'm not feeling into.
It's not so much the drama I have a huge issue with, it's more the fact that I don't really like these particular characters that much and the mysteries surrounding them don't really leave enough breadcrumbs to want to dig into them and the ones that do leave way too much info that it appears really obvious. It's totally possible even the ones I do think I know can just be me being thrown for a loop, but we'll have to see. Just gonna be a tad frustrating if I have to wait 50 episodes to know when I had the answer the whole time lol.
I'll reserve judgement of Faiz, seeing as it could be saved by me just liking the ton, mystery, or characters more but I appreciate the heads up! If not, I guess I'll just look forward to that banger opening every episode like I do with Agito. But yeah, this is just my opinion. Not trying to shit on anyone who really likes Agito or say it's objectively bad, but it personally hasn't impressed me with much so far.
To it's credit I really enjoyed the scene with Houjou confronting his mentor and I enjoy a lot of the G3 banter. Their chemistry seems pretty genuine. The Houjou stuff is kind of annoying because I get he is supposed to just be That Guy, but I find it hard to believe he is continuing to leverage himself after making mistake after mistake. Using Tsukasa's position makes sense at least for this time around.
