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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER KIVA EPISODE 26 - “METRONOME: MIRACULOUS MEMORY”

I don’t feel like there are a lot of longform romances in Kamen Rider. Like, stories about heroes falling in love and navigating a relationship are weirdly few and far between.

Top of my head… well, most of the cast of Faiz, obviously. But after that? Ibuki. Todoroki. Maybe Drive. That’s pretty much it? Everything else is fully-formed on debut (Miu and Shun on Fourze), basically tacked-on at the end (Accel and Akiko from W, Gentoku and Sawa from Build) or the far more likely Fridged Girlfriend (as featured prominently in Ryuki, Blade, Ex-Aid, etc). The arc of a relationship isn’t really something Kamen Rider seems to have a lot of interest in, beyond Faiz and half of Hibiki.

There's also Tsurugi/Misaki and arguably Sento/Ryuuga. In the Ghost novel, Takeru/Chloe gets this as well.

Wataru/Mio is like what could have been for Takumi/Saya, since both are ships with a shared trait, shyness for the former and nekojita for the latter. Too bad Saya didn't last very long.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Love triangle is one of the main aspect of Kiva as well, the most egregious one among Inoue's work. It hits all the bullseye regarding that part; there's men literally and figuratively tying up women to keep them from leaving for another man, men punching each other while the woman screams at them, two women barely avoiding a cat fight over a man, women lying to other women to keep or “steal” a man, a woman lying to a man to get him to kill his rival for her affections. Though I'd appreciate another insight regarding this, albeit I think love for relatives (parent, child, and sibling) is quite omnipresent, and one of the main ways KR series (or many pieces of media) give redeeming qualities to jerks are about those loves.

Most egregious? I have to disagree with you here, since I think that both of the 1986 love triangles are easily some of the most exciting that Inoue has made. While Yuri did become a passive role in the Otoya/Yuri/Jirou triangle, that propels her in to a more active role in the following Yuri/Otoya/Maya triangle where she shows a lot of resistance to stop Maya from trying to homewreck them. It's not even done in a spiteful way, since as the current gf, Yuri has every right to want to stop Maya and defend her position in the relationship. I actually support both Otoya/Yuri and Otoya/Maya. Otoya loves Yuri, but he loves freedom as well, so it's difficult for him to be content when there are two very interesting girls in his life and I think Inoue does an excellent job at showing why they are both viable options and why Otoya is so conflicted between them.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

... Heart counts as a spider monster?

Of course!