I don't think so, no. I love Kouta.

Well people are sharing the opinion that Kota is a crybaby, a loser and a cheater (yes I am serious) and a thief. They wish Takatora was the lead.

I LOVE MY KOTA TOO

They want to call him a crybaby and wish someone else was Gaim, that's fine. But the thief argument makes no sense.

Well Kota stole Peach, that I am sure of but they mentioned Cherry Energy got stolen by Kota.

Well IIRC Kota stole Peach to hear the Overlords, negotiate with them and stop Helheim? But Cherry??

Oh right, I forgot he stole Peach from Marika while they were in Helheim. Still a stupid argument.

He didn't steal Cherry, he won it. That's how the things sometimes work (honestly kind of questioning it myself)- lose a fight, lose your Lockseed. This was established back in the first episode; by their logic, Kaito's a thief (Mai's Himawari and Hase's Matsubokkuri), Micchy... Well alright no point going there- but you get the idea.

Either way, this kind of reaction is to be expected. They want an anti-hero for a "grimdark" series and instead they get someone who refuses to let fear, chaos, and the general shittiness of the world change him. But then we on this side of the pond do have a disturbing fondness for antiheroes.

Exactly. I'm still confused where the crybaby thing came from, though. Recently he's gotten emotional because he couldn't stop his best friend from killing his brother, his sister being kidnapped by an Overlord, and Mai being kidnapped by Micchy.

But even then he never actually cried. He just stood back up, swore to right the wrong, and Lockseeded.

He didn't lock himself his house and hide in the bathtub. (Sorry Wataru, I love Kiva but.. a lot of the time you needed your ass kicked)

Yeah, I don't know what people want Kouta to do. Be the next Tendou Souji or something? Kouta's shaping up to be one of my favorite leads, right up there with Shinji and Shotaro.

There you go, if you managed to track down my reply you can see how angry I was.

His logic is as flawless as his grammar.