[UNFINISHED] My thoughts on Kamen Rider Zero One -- SPOILERS!!

Good but flawed towards the end

I kind of just watched this show then took like a year break to later watch all it in school lol. I can only blame the workplace competition arc for that because holy crap that arc was boring.

Characters

Sento Kiryu is like a scientist guy ig. He's an ecentric protag but like I never felt an attachment for this guy. When I saw this guy's base form and just some promotional stuff, I visioned this series would be based on real life scientific stuff instead of the animal + inorganic theme. I really thought that red and blue appearance was some magnet based power. I kinda just felt betrayed ngl. I also didn't expect the bromance aspect from Sento and Banjo. I mean yaoi ain't my type of thing but I suspect the whole Sento and Banjo relationship is one of the big things people like about this KR season so maybe this show is piggybacking on that. Speaking of Banjo, I love Cross-Z's design, it just looks cool. Cool dragon and punching the hell out of enemies is like his thing. But why the hell did they then introduce his super form "Cross-Z Charge" 6 episodes after his debut as a Kamen Rider. Not only did I wait till episode 11 to see Cross-Z, he just transforms into his super for like the next several episodes in place of his cool design. And Cross-Z Charge is not even a good design. It looks metally and the head looks like someone spilled ooze on the guy's head. Also about how this guy's main staple is punching, it turns out that later in the show, everyone is just throwing hands. Punching is just what everyone does. I mean there is a story reason why: hazard level (the weird form of power scaling they added) increases physical strength where at one point some of the characters just went to get gas-chambered just to increase their hazard level. They actually let themselves get captured just to be experimented on to increase their hazard level like some people when they go to a tanning salon. Anyway, because hazard level increases physical strength, the characters are really just landing haymakers for a lot of combat. It just sucks because I also want to watch people use weapons or KR Build's multiple forms interchangebly but it really devolved into punching. Next there's Misora, she's not a Kamen Rider but she's also a part of the main cast. I'm dumbing it down a lot but she a really grumpy character who I guess is supposed to mesh with Kiryu. She's an important character because she has the power to create one of the macguffins of the series: the fullbottles. She got that from like an alien from Mars who lives in her armband or something. The whole alien thing is kinda weird but even an alien is the main villain so maybe I'm just weirded at how the whole alien revelation was thrusted onto us where the show went to space sci-fi instead of only technology. I'll skip talking about the journalist woman because not really interesting other than one plot twist that doesn't go anyway cause it gets resolved quickly. There's Kazumi or Kamen Rider Grease and I guess he looks cool and simps for Misora but other than that, ehh. Maybe my biggest failing was having every character fall through me. I do feel bad for the character though. All his close friends just dropped like flies. I think I'm supposed to feel emotional when they did start dying but like, how can I when they died so frequently? Last but not least is Gentoku or Kamen Rider Rogue. Character is quite cool. He's power hungry and wanted Japan for himself. All that is really only because of another macguffin called Pandora's Box which made him and two other villains go evil. It's kind of questionable to make that evilness become reversible through the ol' gas chamber bath but I also do like Gentoku after he became unevil. He's kinda funny, knew all the evil he did was bad, and added to the main character dynamic. I gotta say for all my complaints, the show actually became funnier near the end because of these main characters.

Story

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