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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

The idea of Haruto was sound, but the actor's bland delivery (wether it was because as an actor he lacked, or poor direction, the latter is not unthinkable given the direction for everyone else was quite clearly over-the-top obnoxious) and the awful writing of the show overall meant he just came across as boring.

But if he was in a different show, with better writers, I could see him becoming a strong character. But he wasn't, sadly, and he didn't. But hey, he WAS the best part of Wizard. I deffinitely warmed up to him when I saw how everything BUT Haruto broke down into mind-numbing annoyance.

In your opinion, maybe.

In a land of screaming children I loved Haruto's delivery, you either got the wave length of what he was trying to say or you didn't, the show would never try and spell out what emotion you were supposed to correctly respond with.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Haruto is pretty much what you get when you try to make a Showa style Rider in the modern era. He has a little more self-doubt than most of the old guys, but in every other way he's much closer to the classic dudes than any of the other modern guys except maybe Hibiki. I love him for pretty much all the reasons you listed. I just wish he'd been on a better show.

I still think overall Wizard isn't as bad as they say, do I wish my favourite Rider was on a show that wasn't just utterly average? Of course, but it could have been worse, he could have been like Ichijou forever trapped in a shit pile like Kuuga.