[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

I mean despite the flashy visulals, moments of comedy, and art direction especially with the costumes, I do agree when people say Ex-Aid is a dark show. Let's not forget episode 16 and some of the stuff the villains did. Heck, just check out the opening clip. It does set the tone of there is darkness that lingers, and that Ex-Aid is on a mission to do something about it. And you see the background story for Hiiro and Taiga, dark enough I would say.

Ex-Aid IS dark. All the flashy visuals are for destroying a pathogen that wreaks deadly havoc to stress out its host enough to kill them. Most of the main Riders have some form of dysfunction that makes them antiheroes at best, the creator of the Drivers is one of the lead villains, and it's the first series since Gaim to kill off a Rider during the first act.

The opening part, there's Emu suddenly disintegrates into data, foreshadowing what happens when a Rider's gauge hits zero and Game Over.