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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Ryuki: Limit Ouja to be a more infrequent character to maximize his appearences, and give him something of a personality. Not soem ham-fisted backstory, but some charrisma, some interesting character trait.

I don't think anything is wrong with Ouja at all. Yeah, when you take Ouja at his absolute core, he's basically just a psychopath with constant urges to kill but that's what makes his character stand out to me. Asakura didn't need to be charismatic, that's what Kitaoka was there for and, as shown, Kitaoka wasn't the type of Rider Kanzaki needed. He needed somebody that would do damage; nothing more, nothing less and that's exactly what Asakura brings to the table.

Remember up to the point he was introduced there were 6 riders and to put it bluntly, in the grand scheme of Kanzaki's plans, they all sucked. Shinji and Tezuka didn't want to fight, Ren wasn't nearly as heartless as he claimed to be, Kitaoka was too caught up in strategizing to do any actual fighting, Jun was too busy screwing around and fanboying over Asakura and Sudo didn't have any real wish and only killed people (Riders included) who got in his way. Even after Ouja's introduction, the only Rider to even come close to Ouja's killing power was Tiger.

And that right there is Ouja's interesting character trait. He's the only Rider capable of doing what needs to be done and it shows: outside of Knight Survive, I don't think he's lost a straight up fight and he's the only Rider with an actual body count (Ren's doesn't count because Odin let him get the kill and he came back anyway, and Satoru only killed Alternative, who wasn't part of the actual war). Ouja didn't have any sort of redeemable traits that could be exploited to get him out of killing everybody. Really he could have faced Odin himself had he not been so obsessed with Kitaoka.

Plus Ouja could be pretty damn funny at certain points.