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Originally Posted by SloopSloop

I think that was everyone's problem with Ghost, honestly. When you ask someone what specifically they hated about Ghost, you'll usually hear things about Specter and Necrom being pushed to the sidelines, the more interesting plots being done away with quickly (like early Makoto), and the lack of seriousness in what should be a serious theme.

And I've always maintained that having the parka ghosts work like Imagin and possess the rider using them would have made the show so much better. I loved the little characterization they did get, and really anything that results in less Takeru is a good thing. I truly, honestly, don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said Takeru is the worst, least interesting in protagonist I've ever seen in anything, ever. Seriously. Number one. Bottom of the barrel. He's awful.

Also, you can't set up an awesome, really creepy tone in the summer movie cameo, and then do a complete 180 on that in the actual show. You just can't do that and not expect people to be disappointed.

Takeru was a complete Mary Sue and that's my biggest problem with him as a character. The show started to lose its edge early on, and from then on, it basically became the "Takeru and friends" show where pretty much every other character's story arc had to revolve exclusively around how great Takeru is and how much he changed their life and Takeru himself never struggles with his idealistic, upbeat nature which just makes him yet another typical boring Toku/Shonen protagonist without any of the edge that somebody like Godai Yuusuke has. And I get that the show IS called "Kamen Rider GHOST" after all, but Rider is typically good about making it seem like the secondary characters have a life outside of being second fiddle to the main character.