Kamen Rider Ex-Aid

In my own opinion I really enjoy the show despite its my second favorite Kamen Rider of all time and also despite the direction that it have taken were the story was heading to but including the my favorite suits in the show though they do look funny. The plot of the series is having doctors who become a Kamen Rider to save patients lives is interesting enough for me able to understand a simple story. I wish Ex-aid would have a couple more episodes but we have gotten 45 but not only that the extra like the movies which were fun to watch and enjoy with my experience.

"Ex-Aid" is one of those seasons where you have to understand it from a stand-point. This is a Kamen Rider season made for a whole new audience than initially intended back in 1971. Rider fans of the Shōwa-era are going to find this garbage, but listen from a neutral source right here.

I enjoy Ex-Aid for what it is. Much like Gaim making fruits marvelous, it does the same for chibi avatars in Ex-Aid. Its story is as basic as it can be, make sure the civilians are safe from the antagonist and defeat them. Ex-Aid uses the advantage of the current CGI tactics to get away with some scenes, and for the most part, it is decent. True that Ex-Aid should have used more practical tokusatsu techniques, but given its theme, you can't really blame it.

The designs are either a hit-or-miss. Either you like it, or you don't. I will admit, it threw me off initially, but it has grown on me, and the Level 1 suits are generally cute. The only major flaw in the series is being too flashy and bright in its special effects. By episode 5, you'd wish they could tone it down a whole lot.

All in all, it's pretty decent. Ignore the designs and stick to the plot. You have just a decent or good time.

If this series is of any indication. Why, you might ask? Well, because it seems the writer of the new Kamen Rider season is a huge fanboy of the best tokusatsu writer of all times Toshiki Inoue, of which the second half of this series tries to be a continous, heartfelt homage spanning from the very beginning of the maestro's own career (the piano scene taken from one of the episodes of Choushinsei Flashman) passing though Changerion and all the Kamen Riders of the Maestro and including some scenes that look like they were taken straight out of Inoue's own animes. Homage that doesn't turn into a 100% clone or ripoff because Yuya Takahashi in this one gave his own personal spin (there is no love triangle to speak of here) but, interestingly enough, the moments where it hits harder are the ones more close to the poetic sensibilities of the Maestro. I genuinely find funny that a Dragon Ball animator (whose Dragon Ball output I don't care, not for him but because I don't care of neither Super nor Daima) who was at his debut as the main writer here and who also put some slight nods at DBZ at the end of the series not only did not turn a tokusatsu into a shitty Dragon Ball spinoff the way the terrible Kamen Rider OOO by the presumed tokusatsu veteran Yasuzo Kobayashi and the most recent No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger episodes did but also he did a better job at mimicking Inoue than what the people under the direction of his own daughter Akiko is doing in said episodes, which is totally absurd. This series also had already some elements reminescent of Paprika by Satoshi Kon (the inspiration for Zezt, if you haven't gotten the memo) and some KM Black throwbacks, which is also a nice touch. This makes me hopeful for the upcoming series, I must say.

Is it your traditional Kamen rider in terms of suits? No, but is it a refreshing change? Absolutely.

It took awhile for me to get used to them but there's a certain charm to the over-the-top suits and I think that this show would of not have been as successful without these over-the-top suits.

The characters are all fun and well developed. Sure, some characters die and get revived, but this does not diminish their impact or make them less likable! I'm glad that they are all alive. It's a happy rider show with terrific fight scenes, effects, and likable characters.

Also, Dan Kuroto is the best villain in Rider, SHIN DAN KUROTO.

The suits are hit or miss either you really like it or you really hate it from the bottom of your heart but personally I really like it and the story line is sooooo good.