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Originally Posted by VoidinToku

I'm not saying he shouldn't care about his friends, but there's barely any character developments between the two. Almost all toku heroines are shoehorn for comedy relief or damsel in distress like W and Drive. There should have been an episode or two covering or foreshadowing their friendship and Poppy/Asuna bugster origins/background in details. The writer love to tease about something important like Poppy being a bugster in the Christmas episode and never bought it up for almost 15 episodes. I felt the show is limiting the itself a lot by trying to becoming more kids friendly comparing to the early Heisei era. After Dan's death, Pallad raise the stakes, but it doesn't feel as threatening as I expected especially with the same weak revived busters and disposable common ride players.

Except...the reveal that Poppy was a bugster wasn't that important at all. In fact, it was intentionally played up as anti-climatic because 1. it was incredibly obvious and 2. there were MUCH more important things going on in the story than Poppy being a bugster. Sure, now Poppy's bugster background is being given more plot relevance, but that's because Poppy is more relevant in the story now.

Also, Kamen Rider is a kid's show, but even ignoring that, how is any of this relevant to the show becoming too "kid-friendly"?

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Btw why wouldn't you care about their chracters' development. If they already have a strong establish friendship then you would feel more emotional when Poppy switch side to fight Emu. This way it wouldn't feel like writers just come up with an emotional plot and stuff it down our throat.

Nobody's saying they don't care. You just seem to have this idea that Emu can't mope over Poppy's betrayal unless they've already had a Godai/Ichijou level bromance, nevermind that Emu reacted similarly to when Kiriya, a guy he's barely known for a day or two, also lied to/deceived him.