[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Wataru's problem is that he really needs someone caring and responsible to look out for him and help him out of his shell, but he's in a Toshiki Inoue series so those are in very short supply.

Well, Wataru's also in a franchise where All Dads Are Dead, so he's doubly-boned.

In a larger sense, though... I don't want to jump out to Big Proclamations after only seven episodes, but there's a feeling here that we're watching Inoue's take on Hibiki. Not Inoue trying to land Hibiki, but what Hibiki would've been if Inoue had created it. Kiva's a series that's devoted to how Wataru grows up, essentially. It's about how the forces in his life shape him into a man. In Hibiki, Asumu has one clear person to pattern himself after, because that's the type of show it was. With Kiva, Inoue is introducing a bunch of competing forces in Wataru's life, and Wataru is the eye of the storm.

So, like, it's not that Inoue hasn't written in someone who can nurture and guide Wataru. If anything, he's introducing a bunch of people who are offering to do that for different reasons (some good, some Nago), and it's Wataru's journey to figure out what he can learn from those people.