My Top Ten Kamen Rider Series

With Kamen Rider OOO finishing soon high chance it will be in my top ten, but before that change I want to list the rider series that I love the most. Now I barely saw any showa rider series because they are hard to find, but I did episodes of V3, Amazon, and Black RX and I will continue to watch them. Also when you are done with this list look at the most recent one http://kamensentai.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-top-fourteen-favorite-kamen-rider.html

10.Kamen Rider Decade

I can't hate this series completely, sure it had some bad writing with the parallel worlds and the fact it left as a cliff hanger. Also there are some worlds that were bad like Ryuki's, but there are great ones like Hibiki's and Black RX's. The main hero also isnt one of my favoirtes and there is the other Kuuga, but Diend helped to save the show and Decade did have great moments like Black and Black RX.

9. Kamen Rider Kiva

This was the first Rider series that I have seen and because of it I found more and more series. You think for the first series I saw it would be higher, but compared to other rider series it can fall flat. The main character is very amusing and his story works well its just some of the minor characters and the sub plots and bring it down. There is also how IXA was used by everyone in the show some I can agree, but come on Ryu (spider fangire), Rook, and Kengo?!

8. Kamen Rider Ryuki

A lot of people love this series and I do like it for being very original in the franchise, but there are issues with it as well. I love the war story with the riders fighting to the death, but some of the characters arent used the most. There are riders who dont have a lot of episodes sometimes to show something about this battle. There are even some minor characters that are enjoyable, but can be ignored and there was one who was thrown in near the 30 episode mark. Not even all 13 riders appeared in the series the last three appeared in movies which kinda ticked me off, but it makes sense because they could have been killed by mirror monsters. Also there was the ending which I wont talk about, but wow it ticked me off.

7. Kamen Rider Faiz

This was another dark series that did very well with original ideas and probably the best monsters in the franchise. I really liked the orpenocs with some being rebels or killing humans, also a lot of their desings are amazing to look at. Characters are also a big plus to the series with having minor characters that affected the series greatly and having the main characters fixing things up. There were some dull moments though and a good amount that were pointless. Also near the last episodes things were feeling rushed mostly at the final episode itself. This series also had people using the gear which again ticked me off, but this time it was more reasonable then Kiva.

6. Kabuto

I always hear so much love for this series, but I think its a little over rated IMO. Worms are sort of like orpenocs, but this time they are less deverse with most of them killing humans all the time. The fights were also really great and thats why I think people loved this series a little too much. There are good characters, but some are really ignored like Drake. Thebee also had the mutiple users, but it was only 4 and its very reasonable. Also the main story comes in a little too late for me, but still the episodes before that were very fun to watch with I will say the funniest scenes in the franchise. Also Sasword is a big personal favorite rider of mine, but again the ending was a little off it didnt feel rushed, but all I can say that the series major flaw is way too much focus on the main rider Kabuto himself.

5. Kamen Rider Hibiki

Now I am at the series I think is the most under rated in the franchise, why did people hate this series? Sure it was different, but I love original ideas and no one hated Ryuki for that. I guess its because it went with a nature tone, but Amazon had that as well and I hear love for it. Sure the first episode was odd, but after that everything was handeled very well even though the director did change during the series. I like the riders in this one because they had great development with the other characters and they also get amazing development. This series also has the best writing I have seen in the franchise. I didnt like the mutiple random riders that appeared because mostly all they did was fight and nothing else. I also liked the use of weapons, so what if there was no offical rider kick finisher, the finishers in this series were fun to watch. The creatures though were odd mostly with the big ones. The ending was also very well done because its what the series has been mentioning the whole time its about one boy becoming the man he wants to be.

4. Kamen Rider Black

Ok I did see one showa era rider series and its a big favoirte of mine. Black did a lot things that affected the franchise completely mostly with a different story other than the others with a big organization trying to take over the world. It still had that, but it changed it up when Kotaro's brother is kidnaped and he tries to save him. Reminding me of Kotaro he is easily one of the best riders of all time his character is so enjoyable and understandable. I love the fight scenes as well even though its old its some of the best old school fighting I have seen. The last episodes were also some of the best of the franchise and the rival characters were great, but the focus on kids was a little annoying at times.

3. Kamen Rider Kuuga

I mean there is no way this series couldnt have been on this list, it reborn the franchise and is easily one the best. First the dark tone is nice, but other rider series had that as well so why did it get so big? Its because of the great writing and characters that helped support this show and this rider series really brought up the form change to the franchise. I know Stronger and Black RX did do that as well, but Kuuga made it a stable in the franchise. The monsters are some of the best as well with them being brutal by killing as many humans as possible. Also how Godai deals with all these deaths is a big pluse for the show how he wants to protect everyone's smiles. Again he is one the best main riders of the franchise because of his simple view on life and how that affects his bravery a lot. Also ending was great as well and the fights are again some of the best, Without this series Kamen Rider could have been a thing of the past.

2. Kamen Rider Blade

This is another rider series that I think is under rated, but not by a lot I just dont hear a lot about it thats all. At first the series was doing good and kept my attention, but near the end of the Garren arc the show just went to awsome easily. The story was really good keeping a mystery of whats going on till near the end of the series. The characters are also some the best with all of them having amazing moments and big part of the series. This is also a rider series where I see the full skill of a rider because they mostly used cards in the battles. In some battles they use they wit and full potential to defeat an enemy. Villians are also really good with some big main ones and minors one that push a character further. Again with the fights are my favorite of all the series I saw because they really shown the full potential of the riders. I really loved the desing of the riders as well the card motif mixed with bugs worked really well. Then there is the ending which is easily the best because it just hits everywhere and it comes unexpected of what the main hero does.

1. Kamen Rider Double

Yea you say this coming if you saw my review for this series. Even though it didnt have the best ending, all the episodes were fun for me to watch because I love detective shows and even though it was easy to guess whats going to happen it did have some twists I didnt expect and the writing was really well done. I also love the fact of how fast the fights were because it really focused on the good parts and then there was a huge focus for the story. The dopants are some of my favoirte villians because all of them had something different and original like the Liar dopant. There was also a great cast of characters even thoug minors are just well minor they have great moments with helping in the case.

So thats my list and if you got opinions just be nice about them and I will say one last thing, I didnt care for Den-o that much.