So yeah, Wizard... it's not bad. But it's also not great. It is fun, I like the transformations with the touch-belt and the rings, I like the fact that it is magic, I enjoyed the actors very much and the fights were great, very well choreographed.
But the story and character development is severely lacking. I know, we are talking Kamen Rider here, no one is expecting a fantastic story and mindblowing characters, but I started with Gaim. Fucking Kamen Rider Gaim. Where you want to know how the story continues, where you care and root for the characters and where one week without it feels like someone stole your candy and pulverized your favorite teddy-bear.
Wizard's story is just so predictable and boring. Whoever didn’t see the ending coming from miles away had their eyes closed and ears shut. With Gaim... I didn’t knew Mitsuzane would go completely apeshit, even with the signs that are clearly visible if you go back to older episodes, I just now remember the episode where he demanded from Kouta to throw his Driver away. And we don’t even know if he will be the final boss and how it's going to end.
Granted, I didn’t see Beast's role in the end coming and it was great, but if I had to wait a week between episodes I knew I would have figured it out.
And the last fight was fucking lame. Seriously, the first fight against Minotaur was more hype then this.
I'm satisfied with the ending I got, I wont ruin it by watching the last two episodes which are basically advertisement for Gaim, but in the end, someone already said it here, the show was painfully stretched like bubblegum. They could have told this story in 10 episodes without any problems. Okay, it lives on the traditional “One new monster per week”-vibe from the original Kamen Rider, and some of the mini-stories told and characters you meet are very cool.
But I think engineering a more focused story with little side-stories here and there like with Gaim is better then having only side-stories and throw in a big plot behind it that totally sucks. I mean, watching the last two episodes where they really tried to end it well was so painfully. I was like "get over with it already, we all know how it ends" and that’s no great way to end a show.
All in all: I like Wizard, it's fun and I definitely recommend it to any Kamen Rider-fan, just alone for the action and the great actors, but if you really want tension and very well done characters, watch something else.