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10-10-2020, 08:23 PM
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MaskedRiderAsakura
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Yeah, that's exactly my point. There are way too many depraved characters in Gaim and no real heroes for me to root for. I'll contrast with some other Rider shows to explain my point.
Ryuki has its own depraved characters but there are also real heroes like Shinji and Tezuka, and their philosophies are what gives Ren the development to become a hero. Antiheroes need heroes to keep them in check.
Faiz is generally considered a pretty dark show but the dark themes are useful to highlight the more powerful themes of hope and kindness. Even when faced with many tragedies, Takumi is still determined to protect dreams.
Build's major themes are love and peace as it stays a very lighthearted and comedic show despite all the very terrible things happening around it. Real heroes don't let their hearts get eroded by cynicism.
Fourze has a moral about friendship at the center, teaching that even people who are very different and have nothing in common on the surface can create a hardy bond founded on mutual respect.
Then there's Gaim....
Gaim is just dark for the sake of being dark without using it to teach any important morals and that's depressing as hell.
I don't see this as being true at all.
Kouta is firmly a hero. Zack is definitely one after becoming Knuckle as well.
Takatora starts off as a anti-villain who only does the things he does when he sees no other viable option. The minute Kouta presents an alternative, Takatora is more than happy to go along with it because he ultimately doesn't want people to die.
Oren Pierre Alfonso starts off beating up on the Beat Riders, but only because he sees them as reckless delinquents using literal weapons to settle petty rivalries and to be fair, they kinda are. But he's a soldier and he's highly disciplined so it makes sense. He takes Jonouchi under his wing, and he actually ends up becoming a genuine (if slightly ineffective) hero himself.
The theme of the series is about power and what people choose to do with that power. So yeah, it's going to be a pretty dark series, because realistically speaking, most of the people that crave power don't have the best of intentions. But it also underlines just how heroic Kouta truly is because he never lets that power corrupt or twist his morals and yeah, he's the one that gets the ultimate power and saves the world at the end of the day. Gaim starts off as a deconstruction, but comes back right around to becoming a reconstruction. You have the idealistic hero archetype who ultimately successfully remains the idealistic hero, you have the typical Tsundere Shonen-rival character who actually follows through on his beliefs but ultimately still has a good heart behind him, you have the loyal best friend who actually isn't all that loyal but does learn from his mistakes and grows, and you have the Well-Intentioned Extremist villain who you'd initially think would stick to that extremist ideology, but actually
wants
to be proven wrong. The villains are so depraved, but that only makes characters look even better when they act genuinely heroic.
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