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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Your defenses for Wizard aren't wrong. However, you're arguing on the basis that everyone can set aside the problems and look at the silver lining and enjoy everything that is enjoyable about it, but it's just not going to happen.

You're not telling me anything I don't know. And it isn't the silver lining I'm looking at, it's the whole cloud. These aren't minor parts of the show I'm bringing up. My defenses may be based on focusing on the positives, but everybody else's... offenses(?), are based on accentuating the negatives, too. That's sort of how having an opinion works. It's not really something I can help.

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Haruto comes off as bland because he's indifferent to most actions of the supporting cast, his interest in the character of the week are based simply on the fact that a Phantom is after them, and his emotional range is really weak except when it affects himself or Koyomi.

But none of that is entirely accurate. Saying his interest in the VotW is based "simply on the fact that a Phantom is after them" is like saying Shoutarou and Phillip "simply care about the VotW because they're their client that week". That's true, yeah, but it's an oversimplification.

And his emotional range is not weak! This is what I mean about him being subtle. He's got a lot of angst he keeps buried under the surface. That's only when it comes to him or Koyomi, yeah, but that's hardly a problem when so much of the show is focused on him to begin with. Even beyond that he flips between his three basic moods of "sarcastic a**hole", "slacker", and "determined hero" throughout every episode. There's a lot going on with him and I'm baffled nobody but me can see it. He's, at his absolute worst, another Kamen Rider lead.

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Koyomi herself spends most of the series doing nothing, really, and is absent for the other half beyond a few scenes of her just sitting around,

Yes, she absolutely is absent a lot of the time. This is a problem with Wizard. I will not deny this because it's a fact. What I will deny is that when she is around, she's doing nothing. There are episodes throughout the show where she's very central and she's also extremely in focus throughout those last 8-ish episodes.

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and Beast might as well be off in his own universe for how relevant he is.

For one, he's a foil to Haruto, and extremely relevant in that respect. Two, his disconnect from the events of the show is something of a plot point. The White Wizard is always brushing him off as insignificant and it bites him in the a** when Beast is actually the one to stop his evil plan in the end.