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My progress on Kiva has slowed to a crawl over the past couple of weeks, by which I mean I haven't seen any more episodes since I got to 30 a couple of weeks ago. Not intentional, but...happens.

But I'm back to it, so. It's still dumb, by and large. At least I'm at the part where Saga shows up, which is good...between Emperor Form and Rising IXA taking up most of the action scenes lately I'm glad there'll be a suit around I actually enjoy looking at.

Anyway, I'm watching 33, and I was waiting for her to pop up again to say, so what the hell exactly is Shizuka's deal even supposed to be? There's this whole thing where they're like "Wataru has no friends, his first friend was Taiga and then he vanished, and his second friend ever was Kengo who...whatever. Every time he makes a friend things go bad."

But it's like....Shizuka? Does she not count, somehow? Seriously, what even. When the show starts she's the only person Wataru interacts with, but they've yet to explain why or when they met or what....just what, really. And considering that she basically doesn't matter and appears and disappears from the show at random intervals, I don't think this is something the show is keeping secret for a reason, it's probably just...something they didn't care about, on account of Kiva's storytelling being god damn awful.

Also if the spoilers I saw are true, not that I really know the details or want to know at the moment, Mio and Taiga are supposed to be half-siblings, right? Cause like, yuck. I mean she doesn't know and I assume he doesn't know and more importantly I'm not supposed to know, but still, you know, yuck.

Really though, I wish I could enjoy this show more. There was this scene in 32 where Wataru walks up to that one criminal and just...you know, says Wataru things at him. It was great. I really like Wataru, or at least I did before his entire character started revolving around Mio. Ugh, romantic plot tumor if I ever saw one. One, or twenty, in the case of this series.

I still love Riki though. Even if in the entire show he's been used for nothing but stupid bullshit.

Man this cast deserved better.