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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Character A has no more purpose in the series? Let Ouja kill them. And that's all he did. His character did extend to his obsession with Kitaoka, it was only really brought up around the end.

In response to the first sentence: of course. That's the whole reason he was given a deck in the first place.

Not only that but outside of killing he served as a moral test for Ryuki and Knight, as practically every other character in the series does. Because Ren lacks the conviction to kill, you could almost say he gathers inspiration from Ouja. He makes note of this saying that perhaps he needs to become like Asakura in order to fulfill his wish. Hell, towards the end of the series Shinji starts taking inspiration from Asakura as well. Not only that but Asakura serves as a point to Shinji that even the lowest form of human being is worth keeping alive, as shown In the story arc where Asakura 'saves' the girl (and the series leaves it ambiguous as to whether Asakura is really as heartless as he's portrayed to be at this point). After all that's what the ideal villain IS: somebody that strengthens the hero's own beliefs. Shinji and Asakura have a very Batman/Joker relationship going on.

And his rivalry with Kitaoka was always there. It was usually just obscured by the odd newbie Rider jumping in and making things more complicated and by the fact that Kitaoka and Asakura fights were always either inconclusive or interrupted. There were more Ouja and Zolda clashes than you give credit for. Whenever it was just the main four though, Ouja and Zolda were ALWAYS getting under each other's skins.

To say Ouja was just thrown in whenever a Rider needed to be killed off is just false. He was literally the standard, and at the same time, the example of what a Rider should and shouldn't be.