I began watching this series thinking that the girl who can no longer perform Ballet and motorcycle mech with arms can provide for an interesting story. Ogata Rin (the ex-Ballet performer) is thrown amidst a world of military controlled government and terrorists. Of course, both sides use these ridiculous motorcycles with arms as weapons. The story is reminiscent of the same civil complications that could be seen in Toshokan Sensou. However, Toshokan Sensou was done correctly since it was not attempting to be serious and had a lot of clumsy humor mixed in with the story. In contrast, RideBack tries very hard to be serious and evidently, it has the opposite effect.
As the series progressed, there seemed to be a lack of drama. Hence, the writers decide to kill off one of the supporting characters in a stupid and useless manner. The ending is also very average and doesn’t strike any feeling or emotions as a well established ending of a drama really should. Overall, there is not much to talk about with this series. The only reason that I watched it to the end is that it was a short series (only 12 episodes). I think that unless you have kept up with it as it was airing, there is no particular reason to pick this one up when it has completed airing.
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