[MaskedRiderAsakura]

My favorites are:


Akira Date. How can you not like him? He's the type of guy you would go to a bar with for drinks. He's just so laidback and cool.

Hajime Aikawa. I like him for the same reasons I like Takumi. He's aware of his status as a ticking time bomb, but he still struggles with his destructive nature because he doesn't want to hurt the people close to him.

Hiiro Kagami. He's one of those rare secondary Riders for me. He's an aloof secondary Rider like we've seen before, but unlike other shows I've seen, that detachment isn't necessarily treated as something that makes him evil or antagonistic. Because he's a doctor, he can't afford to get too attached to his patients, otherwise it can be a distraction, as we've seen with Emu countless times (who I also like). At the same time, though, he's still trying to meet Emu somewhere in the middle (well, he was until, you know, Cronus).

Kaito Kumon. I just like him as a character. He's a deconstruction of a social darwinist. He believes that only the strong should survive, but at the same time, he hates the fact that it has to be this way. It's an interesting take on what could have been a fairly standard character archetype.

Ren Akiyama. He was the secondary Rider of the first Japanese Rider series I've ever seen, so he has a soft spot in my heart. He wants to be the hero who saves the girl in the end, but struggles with the thought of actually killing someone else to do so. It's heartbreaking.