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Originally Posted by Kurona

Oh no, I completely agree with that; I'm not saying that I don't like a character like Shinji being basically good -- it's in fact the opposite; characters like Eiji Hino, Sento Kiryu and Fuwa Isamu are my favourites for a reason. What I meant is that those ideals being questioned was a bit hard to take in 2021 when you've got certain bad-faith people driving discussion down by essentially saying things like "well, is killing bad?", and seeing these sorts of things said while watching Ryuki before I later interrogated it rubbed me the wrong way. I won't say much further than that, just saying that I do in fact agree with everything you posted there and saying the opposite was not the intention of what I said.

Also, welcome to Tokunation!

Ah, gotcha, I see what you meant now. Thanks for clearing that up. And thank you!

I just finished rewatching Ryuki last week for the first time since I saw it around 2012. I defintely enjoyed it a lot more this time. Not sure why, but I could more clearly see what this show was trying to do. Maybe because I'm older, I could enjoy the characters of this show since they do skew older for Kamen Rider standards, or it could be the themes of justice which I can draw parallels to the current world. I still have issues with the show not explaining its setting very well and everything around Shiro, but I can look past that and enjoy the characters.