[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Not my intention. Shows don't need to be dark to be good. I mean, just look at Fourze.

Yeah, I disagree with that view, just that, previously Gotchard gets accused of people hating it due to it being 'light-hearted' or 'kid-friendly'.

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Originally Posted by Leo Novum

Ex-Aid was it it's best when it was about videogame doctor riders being whimsical.

Well, I guess Ex-Aid, theme aside, would fit a darker type of KR show, like the Riders being at odds with each other and/due to the sheer amount of unlikeable people in the cast, and the scale of the damage done by the virus the villains launch, etc.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Feels like there's a double standard for that complaint, that even somebody rude like Takumi has a lack of goals, while the good guy Keitarou has the huge ambition of turning all the world's laundry white. I guess a character with a clear goal can be more intriguing to watch though. At the moment, Shouma is on the run and the plot is happening around him, but Hanto is running towards something and driving that plot forward, which makes me curious to see where that goes. Of course, Hanto isn't any less heroic for that either. It's totally cool for him to have a personal goal as long as it's not harming anybody else and even cooler to have one that helps others. Shouma is a selfless hero, but he's afraid to pursue his own happiness and that's not healthy, as those who care about him wouldn't want him to stay sad and even he admits that his sudden disappearance would bring sadness to the Nakamuras.

Yeah true about Faiz, though seems that people don't know much about Phase 1 seasons in detail. For Keitaro, guess in general KR series don't really touch upon what are the good guy's aspirations in their daily jobs (but ofc they'd have those jobs), other than if they'd want to make everyone happy like why Aruto wants to be comedian, and Keitaro wants to clean all laundries to make everyone happy too.

And as I said to someone else above, some people just depict Shoma suffering as the cost of being heroic, that he won't be able to be happy if he chooses to be good, which annoys me as seemingly another 'virtue is weakness' view as if someone chooses to be evil, they'd be able to be happy and successful (and the view that 'realistically bad guys always win'), with the KR challenge seen as giving up the thing they want the most. Though Shoma's well-received so far, what you said, about the plot happening around him, it'd be why goody two shoes are often considered as 'just there' (applies more to non-MC), they generally create the plot less unlike villains such as the Stomachs who hunt happy humans for Dark Treats, they react to problems to mitigate it, as creating the plot often involves stirring shit, done more by assholes or villains.

I feel that I don't know what Hanto's full deal is to judge how heroic he is yet. He seems to have a similar goal to many secondary Riders, to hunt for the group that deprived them of their loved ones, likely for revenge. Most secondaries would be anti-heroic for having this. Though next episode will show Hanto seemingly not being prejudiced towards Granute at least, in defending Gavv, unlike some other secondaries like Gou to Roidmudes.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

But I liked how George's and Hiromi's relationship developed with their cute punch scene and George making him promise to stop gambling his life all the time.

This too, George is the culprit of Hiromi's shortened lifespan. Isn't it big coming from George to tell Hiromi to not waste his life? The cast should persecute and scrutinize George for the irreversible harm he had done to Hiromi.