[Blade Raider]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

You say tamed, I say "has some God damn self-control."

What you described isn't dark, it's pointless gratuitous and immature. It reeks of someone trying to be more mature, but failing and becoming an even bigger joke than the so-called "tame" series. "We want this too be DARK and EDGY so let's put in MURDER and RAPE because those automatically make for better stories about silly rubber-suited monsters, right?"

Maybe the creators should spend less time trying, and failing, to make the shows dark and "mature" and focus on making the mouths on the monsters move once in a while?

You've clearly never watched Faiz. What I described is an event used to add to the character drama within the show.

The following contains minor spoilers from the early episodes of Faiz:
Yuka Osada is an Orphnoch. Orphnochs must kill in order to live. Her and the Horse Orphnoch agreed to never kill and live as long as they can. However, Yuka has been killing people she deems "evil," like the rapists (which is only implied), behind the Horse Orphnoch's back.

This character does not like the things she does, but does them to live. That's not dark for sake of being dark. That's dark for sake of adding character. I repeat, today's Kamen Rider is tamed compared to early Heisei.

PS I'm not including Gaim in that statement yet.