[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

That's a problem with all of the Toshiki Inoue series. It's a bit less pronounced in Faiz, but way more apparent in Kiva, where Wataru goes from wimpy crybaby to feral ass-kicker when he transforms.

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Originally Posted by IXRollOutIX

See, I can forgive it a little more in Kiva because his fangire instincts take over. Not only that, Wataru does start to change as the series progresses and gets closer to becoming one with his fangire blood by the end. It's still not great, but it's at least more explainable.

And to go further, since he embraces his heritage, it's possible to say that at the start his wimpyness was self-loathing and attempts at trying to be what he considered the opposite of a Fangire: quiet, gentle, non-violent. He knew he was Fangire and did not like it at all: And when he became Kiva, he believed that it wasn't really him fighting, but the Kiva powers themselves fighting, and he could wash his hands of that conflict. Look at the fight with Rhino: he was sickened by the Fangire's actions and let Kiva dish out the punishment since at the time, he still didn't have the nerve to do so.

As time went on, Wataru stopped seeing it as him using the entity of Kiva and realized that he IS Kiva.

Or that's at least how I see it.