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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Asakura was far from unique, and was a terrible character. He was a cartoonish psychotic moron who just gleefully did evil acts for no reason and had no depth or motivation. He just killed and killed and smiled all the time and it was boring and stupid.

Ryuki was awesome, but Ouja was a black mark on the series. Not until the final episode did I ever give a shit about what happened. He was a lazy tool of the writer to be a boogeyman for the other characters to be scared off, and had no personality outside of "boy do I love killing." And he just looked up with his head down like a typical psycho. Flat as a board that character was. I kept expecting him to do something but it never happened.

You just didn't notice. In the episode with Reiko he talked about he he almost starved to death and if you notice in other episodes he actually does nice things like offering food to other because maybe despite being a psycho he doesn't believe in people starving.

He was carnage to everyone's ambition. When he found out through Reiko that he missed his brother when he set their house on fire as a kid he lied through his teeth and played a victim all so he could finish the job.

That made him different from any and every Rider to date. Lazy tool for writers? Give me a break. This is why we can't get nice things. He wasn't the strongest Rider by any stretch and his character was a perfect foil to Kitaoka's. He made Kitaoka's character look good.

I mean why do you think Kanzaki offered him the belt in the first place and gave him so many chances? He was Kanzaki's ringer in the Rider War to thin out the herd. Ren was stoic but hesitant when it came to killing, Shinji was never ever going to kill in the first place and Kitaoka was sickly. Asakura was Kanzaki's safe bet.