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Originally Posted by Suzu

To fully grasp what they did in the early episodes, you might wanna watch the show multiple times. The show does a lot of stuff then and when you watch the first time, as you don't really know what's going on, you miss a lot of stuff. While, for example, there is a little more focus on Tachibana at the beginning, Hajime and Kenzaki do have quite a lot of moments to shine too, it's just that you might not notice them at first, because the show practically tells you to focus on Tachibana more.
I think for Blade it's best if you watch the show multiple times and focus on a different character for each run. The first time watching, I cared most for Tachibana (which also comes from the bonus of having seen the actor in Fourze and Sailor Moon before), the second time I focused more on Kenzaki and the third time, I learned a lot more about Hajime and Mutsuki.
And even now, I still notice new stuff when re-watching the show.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I think the focus on Tachibana in the beginning was the best.
I know the show is called Blade and it would make more sense to focus on the titular character, but by giving us a great story for Tachibana at the start, it makes him feel all the more human. Not just a gun to aid in fight scenes and nothing more.

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Originally Posted by Suzu

Tachibana was also the best character to start the plot and character development from. As much as I love Kenzaki, starting the plot with him would have been pretty boring, because we would have had no real conflict here. As for Hajime, it would have made the show way too short if we learned about him that early, so he stays a mystery.
Tachibana was a Kamen Rider for the longest time and a friend to Kenzaki, so he would let Kenzaki take action with whatever he did. He had no direct connection to the Undead which makes it easier to keep their plot form unfolding for quite a while, but he did have some suspicions about Board so he was the most logical choice to set the plot in motion with- Kenzaki would've been way too naive at this point to suspect anyone of anything anyway (not to mention it wouldn't fit the characters to switch roles. Being semi-villain-ish is not something that Kenzaki could pull off).

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I thought it was fine, and doing such makes him one of the most memorable characters in that show. I was just trying to say that if there was a criticism I could pull out, it'd be that, as I could see someone saying "It's called Blade, why are we focusing on Garren so much?"