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08-04-2012, 09:01 PM | #11 |
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He's close to my least favorite.
I like him a bit more than Gai but...yeah just a bit. Sadly, yes, I agree. Shame as a character he sucked. I saw his death as part of a reoccuring theme in Ryuki; Be careful what you wish for. It was like Kanzaki or Kagawa saying "oh you want to be a hero? You're gonna get it.....". What I liked was that I didn't see it coming until it happened. I was convinced Asakura or Shinji would kill him. Funny you should mention that. I've been debating that. Maybe making 1 thread to discuss both since 13 Riders was short.
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08-04-2012, 11:41 PM | #12 |
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I love Episode Final; it's one of my favorite pre-Double movies. It's a cool ending to the Ryuki story, it fleshes out some of Kanzaki's plan more, and it has Miho (I freaking love Miho). Add in the Agito cameos and it's all great fun.
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In 41-45 I loved seeing Magna Giga finally do some damage against not only Asakura but Toujo. It was also great to see Asakura kick the crap out of Toujo. Both were bad guys but still, it was like karma coming to Toujo. I'm surprised Goro didn't end up hooking up with Megumi too. That one episode where they seemed evenly match alluded to them falling for each other.
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08-05-2012, 04:37 AM | #15 |
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I was sad to see Tiger die, but new it was coming. I kept holding my breath worried each time he showed up could be his last, but glad he made it as far as he did. I liked that he was able to go out that way, and actually made me a bit teary on seeing how it played out. Pretty much became one of my favorite Rider characters after his story ended. Next is that damn ending.
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08-05-2012, 11:10 AM | #16 |
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I was sad to see Tiger die, but new it was coming. I kept holding my breath worried each time he showed up could be his last, but glad he made it as far as he did. I liked that he was able to go out that way, and actually made me a bit teary on seeing how it played out. Pretty much became one of my favorite Rider characters after his story ended. Next is that damn ending.
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08-05-2012, 11:35 AM | #17 |
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But, he was a killer who only made friends and loved ones to eliminate them and make him more 'heroic' from those loses. He's a terrible person and character. Sad to see him die? Hell no. I celebrated Tigers' death, he didn't deserve to go out doing something positive. He should've been killed the same way all of the other awful riders on the show went out; Ouja
In a lot of ways I think Toujo is probably the most tragic character in Ryuki and certainly the most psychologically fascinating. He means well, he just has such a totally wrong outlook on the world that he just keeps doing bad things that he thinks are for the greater good. |
08-05-2012, 12:21 PM | #18 |
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I don't think Toujo intentionally made friends just to kill them. I think he legitimately cared for his allies, he just had a really skewed understanding of his mentor's motto, due in no small part to him being pretty mentally unstable. He just took the "a hero sacrifices those he cares about" part too literally, seeing it as a requirement for heroism rather than a component of it. I always think that one of the more darkly humorous parts of these episodes is when Imperor helps him out and says something along the lines of "hey, we're friends, right?" You can practically hear the switch in Toujo's head flick over to the "gotta kill you" setting.
In a lot of ways I think Toujo is probably the most tragic character in Ryuki and certainly the most psychologically fascinating. He means well, he just has such a totally wrong outlook on the world that he just keeps doing bad things that he thinks are for the greater good. Toujo is tragic in that he has no true concept of what being a rider in the Ryuki-verse means. Nor does he understand what real ethics and heroism are. He may think that he means well but he has such a disconnect with reality and other humans that his credibility as a 'hero' is destroyed. I understand the irony of his death, that he finally performed his first heroic act, in the process of dying. But it doesn't change my view that he was horrible. The most tragic character is really Shinji in my opinion. But I'll save that for nexts weeks discussion since it involves spoilers from the final episodes.
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My favorite thing about Episode Final is that it gave us Ryuga, but I'll get more into that when the time is right.
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08-06-2012, 02:03 AM | #20 |
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I don't think Toujo intentionally made friends just to kill them. I think he legitimately cared for his allies, he just had a really skewed understanding of his mentor's motto, due in no small part to him being pretty mentally unstable. He just took the "a hero sacrifices those he cares about" part too literally, seeing it as a requirement for heroism rather than a component of it. I always think that one of the more darkly humorous parts of these episodes is when Imperor helps him out and says something along the lines of "hey, we're friends, right?" You can practically hear the switch in Toujo's head flick over to the "gotta kill you" setting.
In a lot of ways I think Toujo is probably the most tragic character in Ryuki and certainly the most psychologically fascinating. He means well, he just has such a totally wrong outlook on the world that he just keeps doing bad things that he thinks are for the greater good. At some point he stopped trying to do everything right and wanted to just do whatever it took to be a hero. I saw his death as a karmic death; he spent a few episodes taking lives to be a hero, and ironically it was giving his own life that ended up being the most heroic action of all. I didn't see it as redemption for him so much as it teaching him a lesson. Also with the karma, I saw it as punishment as well, like "oh now you're a hero but...you're also...DEAD".
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