If Pinky & the Brain taught five-year-old me anything, it was that watching someone try to take over the world was usually far more fun than watching someone save it. This is a mentality that's stuck with me throughout the years, even if series focusing on super villains are a bit few and far between. Thankfully A-1 Pictures decided to scratch my itch earlier this year with an original anime production that goes by the name of World Conquest Zvezda Plot (released in Japan as Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda ).  

Kamen Rider Ryuki  is the third entry in  Kamen Rider 's  Heisei era, and the 12th installment over all. It ran for a total of 50 episodes in 2002, complete with a feature length film, a TV special and one Hyper Battle Video crossover with the previous series,  Kamen Rider Agito . When people start being mysteriously abducted without a trace, online journalist Shinji Kido is sent to investigate. He discovers an Advent Card Deck, and is sucked into a nearby reflective surface into the Mirror World. Attacked by monsters, Shinji is saved by Ren Akiyama - who appears in the Mirror World as Kamen Rider Knight. Ren warns Shinji to keep away from the Deck and the Rider Battle, where 13 Kamen Riders must fight to the death in order for the victor to have their wish granted. Uninterested in the prize but wanting to protect innocent lives from the monsters and end the fighting, Shinji makes the required contract with a giant dragon named Dragreder to become Kamen Ri...