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I would also like to apologize for my previous post, as I see now that it was too broad a statement to give the insight I was going for. Like Daiji, I'm trying to hold back a lot of thoughts that may be perceived as unhelpful, or, "a bummer to read", but the desire to complain is tempting sometimes and I guess the Kagerou got out here.

Fortunately (unfortunately?), your review of Episode 11 gives me the perfect opportunity to complain in a way I hope you will find relevant!

Putting aside the narrative problems, if there's something I can blame for the immediate decrease in my enjoyment of the show, it's the focus on Little Miss Angst, whose existence may have contributed to me softening on Reika a little.

You've already compared Sakura to Ren and Aguilera to Kaito and I'd compare Sakura to Yaguruma and Aguilera to Kageyama, which in your case, that probably just makes you like her more. However, as I mentioned in the Kabuto thread, I have little tolerance for pretentious types and I think this is one of the worst examples, cause now Yaguruma is the female lead, there is no escape from it. A kid talking about how they want to become invincible and beat everybody is typical kid behavior, but as a young adult, it sounds insufferably pretentious and edgy!

I don't recall this getting brought up yet, but Kinoshita's original pitch for Revice included a female Primary Rider due to his confessed bias towards what he calls, "strong women". It was vetoed, mostly for marketing reasons. Makes you wonder who that character would've been, doesn't it?