[DreadBringer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mesnick

By the way, given the complaints about Tacoon's willingness to give away his driver to Geats, I think that many people do not understand Keiwa's position. It's not about naivety, but about the difference in priorities. For him, the DGP is primarily about saving the world, not about competition. Hence the willingness to cooperate to the detriment of oneself. Because the main thing for him is that Jamato does not win and all the dead civilians are resurrected. And his own desire is a nice bonus.

I obviously know that he's cooperative. I do think that he may be able to cooperate by fighting more of the Jamato Riders himself to get more belts for other Riders, instead of just letting them be to ensure other people's elimination after being in safe position. Taking action for others while still maintaining your safe position. Though which is why I suspect that this is probably done due to Keiwa still feeling insecure to some extent (obviously he's lot more confident than early on) for some parts in the game and felt safer/more guaranteed if he leaves the quest for getting all the Drivers back to Ace, based on his talk with Neon of them being dependent on Ace.

Not necessarily about Keiwa but also it seems that some can forget that being competitive and caring for others' well-being isn't mutually exclusive, as being competitive seems to be associated with cutthroatness and willingness to do anything to win (yeah Michinaga's a type of this), along with "nice guys finish last". But yeah, one can both really motivated to go for victory, like doing their best to complete the task required to win, while still care for others' well-being, including for competition, not wanting to see them end up in bad shape as you beat them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rabbitman

Spot on there! We all saw how he basically did the same thing in the kick the can episode. Also all those times he gave away the boost buckle.

My problem this week was that Buffa should have killed the final jamato. Keiwa killing it before confirming Geats had obtained the driver and was safe, well, it just makes Keiwa look stupid, right?

Regarding the Boost part, some people also seems to equate kindness with naivety for this (and KR portraying many kind ones as that doesn't help..), I gotta say there's a difference between Keiwa getting tricked to giving it away like ep. 2, or intentionally giving it to help others he knows are in difficult situations, Neon for ep. 4 and Michinaga for ep. 5 (well yeah for giving the Driver to Ace, my thoughts above). We also see in ep. 7 that Keiwa refused to give Michinaga his Boost Buckle if there are no difficult situations (outside of obligatory Jamato fighting), even as Michinaga guilt-tripped him.

Though for the part of defeating Bishop Jamato, seems that he needs to do it before the Bishop Jamato tears the Riders apart by making the Riders fight each other via illusions seen in Buffa and Na-Go attacking each other. (in place of a child being threatened like you suggested, and killed Riders don't return.. unless Keiwa wins).