Hai! Aruto Ja... Naito!

Overall it was pretty good, the fight scenes and the choreography was good, the CGI and special effects are probably one of the best I've seen in Kamen Rider, on par and sometimes exceeding Build. The main characters are nice as well. Besides Aruto, I quite liked Jin and Izu, although the other main characters are also really good. However, many of the Humagear characters shown throuout the show were extremely boring, I felt it would've been better if they showed less of them. My only other two gripes with it was first, The ending felt a bit rushed, which I can't really blame them for. Kamen Rider Zero-One was, from what I've heard, supposed to be the usual 49 episodes we see in most Kamen Riders but due to covid restrictions, it had to be shortened to 45, which may or may not have been the reason the ending felt a bit rushed. Secondly, none of the characters actually died. This may seem like a really strange thing to complain about but there were so many moments in Zero-One where I felt like a character was going to die, only for them to magically come back a few episodes later and this kept happening and happening. Quite major plot armour if I do say so myself. My opinions on the Kamen Rider suits are a bit off a mixed bag (I won't base my rating heavily on this topic as it is highly subjective, but I thought it was worth mentioning). I quite liked the Zero-One and Zero Two suit, MetalCluster Hopper was good as well. I wasn't a particularly big fan of Vulcan and Valkyrie's suits though. They seemed a bit plain and I didn't like the glossy finish on them. This was resolved with Vulcan's final form however. Jin's first form (flying falcon) wasn't all that great as well. I didn't think the suit being mostly pink with some white was a great choice, although again this was resolved with his later form, burning falcon which actually looks really nice. Horobi's suit was fine and I particularly liked the Ark forms of both Horobi and Zero-One. I felt as if many forms were underused especially the Zero-One forms used in the first quarter of the show (Biting Shark, Flaming Tiger, Freezing Bear, etc.), whereas in Build for example, they were able to incorporate those basic forms even until the final battle. This wasn't a big problem to me but I felt it was worth pointing out. Soundtrack throughout the show was on point as well.

TL;DR: Pretty good, nice main characters, rushed ending (due to covid), some nice suits, good soundtrack.

Final Rating : 8/10

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