Kamen Rider Decade (Tokusatsu)

There are many worlds that live side by side, unbeknown to each other. However suddenly these worlds are starting to collide and destroy each other. The only one who can do something about it is the mysterious boy Tsukasa, who has the power to travel between the world with his friend and caretaker Natsumi. Tsukasa has the power to become Kamen Rider Decade, and must use his powers to battle against the previous 9 Kamen Riders, whose worlds he must save but whose worlds all reject him.

(1 Season, 31 episodes, Finished)

Everyone is always hating on Decade, and to be honest I can't really understand why because overall its a great series. Sure they could've made Decade less pink, but he is still a decent Rider. Anyone who is a massive fan of cross-over stuff will love this series because its all about how Decade has to go and fight the previous 9 Kamen riders from the Heisei Era (because this series is celebrating 10 years of Heisei Kamen Riders). Not only does he meet them, Decade can also turn into the other Riders and turn the actual Riders into super weapons, which is a pretty cool trick. That being said anyone who now expects to be able to see the previous Kamen Riders again will be slightly disappointed because each of the other Kamen Rider's stories have been altered slightly so that they are different from the original versions yet still keeping the same basic story going. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it can be a little disappointing. On the plus side though the series comes up with a number of their own original worlds that revive some of the previous stories of the Kamen Riders (e.g. there is a world based on the Kamen Rider Blade film). Most of the characters are pretty enjoyable, except for Tsukasa himself who spends most of his time going around being a douche, then whipping out a cool realisation about that characters that he supposedly knew all along: frankly he's 80% annoying, 10% cool, 10% hate-able. The one major let down of the whole series is that it never ends properly and just goes into a giant cliff hanger that I'm not going to spoil. But it is very irritating and the only way to get any sense of closure is to either watch the Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider Decade Double cross over film, or skip the last 6 episodes in favour of the Kamen Rider Decade let's go all riders film. On that note there is also an additional film called the Decade X Den-o film, but really its all about Kamen Rider Den-o and Decade makes a couple of cameos in it: might as well have called it the Kamen Rider Den-o with Decade showing up here and there film. All in all though i feel this is a good addition to the series even if a little short and with a disappointing end.

Rating - 

6/10