[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

If I'm getting the picture you're painting of how Faiz worked for you, it's:

1. Auto Vajin
2. Yuuji's hair
3. Yuuji
4. Takumi
5. Nothing else

Yikes!

Hey now, that's way too harsh! Jet Sliger, Chaco and Saeko's fashion sense are all extreme highlights for me

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Well, I'm fairly confused of why you aren't into Keitaro too? I mean you disliked Faiz for it being grim, but Keitaro's someone made to counteract that, being one of the most genuinely good and the type I would expect to be an exception to you by being the optimistic ray hope of light.

I guess for me it's because he felt part satire of that and part deconstruction. As if Inoue looked at the likes of Shinji and Godai from the past couple years and went "hey, you know those characters who believed in justice and had unyielding optimism? Well here's how they'd actually be like; they're alone in their beliefs in the world, they're idiots who can't use a Rider Belt, and their development is about that optimism being crushed and learning to accept that the realities of the world don't match up to their ideals". He's to your typical Kamen Rider protagonist what Madoka is to the Magical Girl genre. That's how it read to me, and every time he was on screen I imagined myself pleading Wizard's writer for forgiveness because Shunpei wasn't THAT bad. I dislike him because he felt like the exact antithesis to what you're describing.