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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I feel the contrary. Haruto really can't hold a show, in my opinion.

I think the problem a lot of people have with Haruto is that he's a really subdued character. Coming off of year after year of Riders who were in one way or another really over-the-top, it's odd to have a hero who isn't shouting his head off, hugely overreacting to everything, or waving around his underpants all over the place. Haruto, to me, is at least as likable as any of those characters, he's just more willing to get down to business - in a lot of ways he's probably the most old school Rider of the entire Heisei era. He reminds me a lot of guys like Kazami Shiro or Jo Shigeru. As a big Showa fan I really enjoy that. The problem is that this isn't the kind of hero that a lot of people are used to in Kamen Rider anymore.

I also like how he can do comedy, but he does so in a much more subtle way than the last few Riders. The shoe bit in the first Mayu episode, for example, was great.