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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I had always assumed from episode 1 that being Kiva was basically the same thing as being a Fangire, just that the former is a cooler and more marketable version. They're both so clearly derived from vampires after all.

Sure, but the way Kiva's Henshin is from Kivat biting him... there was always a little bit of a grey area there, where maybe Kivat was giving him a boost of Fangire power, and that's what allowed him to become Kiva?

There're a half-dozen things in this show that are very likely to be one thing, but unacknowledged enough to possibly be something else. Kiva being a Fangire is the obvious assumption (Nago and Megumi never think for a second that Kiva isn't), but it's unconfirmed for a long time, so maybe not?