[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

I legitimately don't understand the hate that Kiva gets. It wasn't perfect, but the action was fun, the story hooked me in, I cared about the characters, and I thought it made sense that he mostly used Emperor form. Why would you use a weaker version of your weapon when you have a stronger version with no drawbacks?

The reasons why people hate Kiva are completely baffling to me. Like, how can you overlook how elegantly they weave the two timelines within each episode and dwell on shit like, "they never explained where the castle dragon came from, so this show sucks." Like -- what!? Why are you complaining about Emperor form when we just witnessed some devastating emotional and thematic parallel artfully drawn between Wataru and Otoya from decades apart?? Are you literally 12 years old???

Is is a perfect show? No. The ending is a little anticlimactic and the treatment of the women characters can be iffy at times (though its treatment is a damn sight better than the majority of other Kamen Rider series of that era). But those are not good enough reasons to completely discount a show that was very well done for like 90% of its run.

So much of my contempt for the larger toku fandom (not Tokunation, you guys are gems, even when I disagree) is crystalized in the nonsense disregard for Kiva.