I got my cancel out music going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzvRsl4rEM

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Well he did steal the Peach Energy lockseed for shits and giggles (he had no idea it was going to give him what he needed to locate overlords), but I wouldn't call stealing weapons from bad guys a moral failing per se.

He also seems to get all his power ups from DJ Sagara just handing them to him, but there are plenty of Riders who don't do much to 'earn' their power-up items (Tendo and the Hyper Zecter, Tsukasa and the K-Touch, Wataru and Tatsulot, etc).

It seems to me that some people want Kouta to be someone who makes 'hard choices' and 'does what he has to do' when his central character is that he doesn't accept that sacrifices and questionable deeds are required to achieve peace and happiness.

Do you see this episode, It Established that Kouta is an idiot hero like Shinji because he won't kill that Bastard Micchy, You know what happen to Shinji in Ryuki. I am not spoiler alert you if you hasn't see that show. I know Kouta's actor try to based his character on Yusuke Godai from Kuuga

It is very heartless of you to declare Kouta an idiot just because he can't yet bring himself to try to kill someone who was once a good friend. We've known about Mituzane's increasing evil for 20+ episodes, but Kouta just found out about it. It's only human of Kouta to want to try and save his friend, rather than jump right to the 'Well, he's hopeless. Time to murder him." attitude that so many on the internet seem to want.

Well, to be fair, Tendou got the Hyper Zecter from himself .

What happened to Shinji wasn't the result of him being an idiot hero, and Kouta's not of below-par intelligence because he hesitates in killing someone whom he considered his best friend. It takes a little more than 3 episodes (and likely only a day or two) for someone to jump from being someone's best friend to outright deciding to murder them.

Dude! First of all, Micchy almost kill Kouta twice, Send his only brother to the bottom of the sea! Kidnapped Mai and he even have Overlord Inves to brutally beat up Peko and he okay with that?!

Not cool, Micchy.

Why you do this?! You are Kouta's best friend NOT his enemy.

NO!!!!!!!!

Well, Kouta doesn't technically know about the sea. He doesn't know about the first attempt. He also learned all of this within like a day or four. What if you learned your best friend, who you trusted tried to kill you? I don't think you'd be like BRING IT ON, but rather trying to take it all in.

Koutas on that journey, denying the fact his friend is gonna use Mai to resurrect the Queen.

I don't think even Micchy is aware of that fact. As far as he knows, he's "rescuing" Mai to save her from the imminent destruction of the human race. Redyue is playing everyone in this scheme, including Micchy.

It's also kind of obvious that Kouta is clearly in denial concerning Micchy, since he always shakes his head and runs off whenever Kaito brings him up.