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Originally Posted by Locke

So OOO 43 really didn't leave me as much to praise but that doesn't mean it was a bad episode.

It was an especially great episode for Hina who manages to be endearing even though she is one of those many Kamen Rider side characters who are just kinda...there. I guess she is more likeable because she is determined to be there and the show puts no expectations around her, it isn't like she's supposed to have a purpose and isn't living up to it, she is just a woman with a huge heart dragged into the middle of this and deciding to help anyway, even though she could just walk away and has every right to do so. I dig it. This show just nails the formula for great characters, it is just a damn shame it can't seem to nail a great story as well.

Also, they should have designed Uva on a cockroach instead, that would be much more fitting.

Huh, I didn't even consider Uva's endurance and a cockroach's.

I still don't get why Hina exists. I don't hate her, but she is the deffinition of non-essential. You could have removed her outright and given all her scenes to... fuck, what's the diner girl's name? Mix their characters together and you get Hina's personality with the usefulness of providing the heroes with a place to stay and a job. Boom. Could've even shifted the Maki plot onto this hybrid character for extra effectiveness.