[GoldenXtreme]

I really owe Blade a rewatch, it completely baffled my the first time I watched it but I think my mentality was all wrong. I took the show dead seriously at the time and needless to say that isn't the best way to approach that particular show.

On the subject of Shinji-esque protagonists, I get the argument that Kenzaki and Takeru fall into the same sort of role, but I disagree. Shinji works as a protagonist because Ryuki desperately needs a character to ground the show because so many of the other characters are such desperate people. Shinji works as a connection back to reality, with his loser-ish personality and earnest desire to help people also helping to ground other characters around him. I don't know if I would consider Kenzaki a particularly grounding force in his show, since he is usually getting up to as much weirdness as everybody else, even if he does have the loser personality and earnest niceness going on. Ghost is also grounded enough already that I don't think having a protagonist like Takeru to ground it really helps the show in any way. Now Kagami from Kabuto? That is a character I think serves the same kind of role as Shinji, the only sane man in a world of unmitigated chaos.