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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

What this guy said. Emu was even worried about Nico, who absolutely hated his guts.

I'm not saying he shouldn't care about his friends, but there's barely any character developments between the two. Almost all toku heroines are shoehorn for comedy relief or damsel in distress like W and Drive. There should have been an episode or two covering or foreshadowing their friendship and Poppy/Asuna bugster origins/background in details. The writer love to tease about something important like Poppy being a bugster in the Christmas episode and never bought it up for almost 15 episodes. I felt the show is limiting the itself a lot by trying to becoming more kids friendly comparing to the early Heisei era. After Dan's death, Pallad raise the stakes, but it doesn't feel as threatening as I expected especially with the same weak revived busters and disposable common ride players.

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Originally Posted by AgileSiamang7

Emu cared about Dan, and he's an asshole who's been fucking with his life since apparently Day 1.

But you're asking why he cares about the co-worker who approached him with the driver in the first place, and who unlike Hiro and Taiga hasn't attacked him until recently, and even then she was altered to do so?

Because despite her comedy role, Poppy has been friendly with him throughout.

Hiro only just started warming up to him.

Taiga is still a grumpy puss.

Kiriya was a liar at first.

Poppy had to be mentally changed to become antagonistic.

So yeah, he wants his friend back.

Why the hell would he care about her "character development", he's not an audience member valuing a person by how prominent they are.

Btw why wouldn't you care about their chracters' development. If they already have a strong establish friendship then you would feel more emotional when Poppy switch side to fight Emu. This way it wouldn't feel like writers just come up with an emotional plot and stuff it down our throat.