[DreamSword]

ACE WEEK SPECIAL!

Eyyy, its the last day of Ace Week, and for this week I felt like I should do something a little special. So I thought to myself, "What Rider characters could easily qualify as being Asexual?" A tricky question, considering there's like, no way any of the writers intended for any given character to be Ace. But despite that, after talking with a few other about the idea, a few characters came up: Terui(Accel), Philip(Double), Ryotaro(Den-O), but I personally felt none of them quite matched up to what I was looking for.

So failing that I thought, "What Rider shows celebrate platonic love?" This didn't really help much since like, damn near all of them do. But, yet again, I asked around, got some input, and it was decided. So today I wanna talk about Kamen Rider Agito, and the relationship between Shoichi and Hikawa!

The dynamic between these two was one of the highlights of Agito for me, and I felt like this was best emphasized in Episode 34, "Summoning Souls to Meet."

Now, I'm not about to talk about this episode in its entirety considering that the episode's' focus isn't exactly the interplay between these two characters. No, I'm here to talk about the scene I screencapped in and of itself, which is one of my favorite scenes in all of Rider as well as one of the funniest.

The set up is that after a fight with the El of Water, Shoichi is wounded and needs to rest for awhile in order to recover. As such, Mana asks Hikawa to take care of him, in which Hikawa does not at all hesitate in doing. Sweet enough, but with his protection Hikawa brings a gift! A box of strawberries.

Turns out that no, it's not that Shoichi doesn't like strawberries, he just likes them a rather specific way. Hikawa's' reaction is priceless.

But, he still does. Even when Shoichi asks him to them smash the strawberries into mush, Hikawa still does his best attempt at that without a single complaint. Hikawa, being Hikawa, of course can't do it properly, so Shoichi attempts it himself, only to fail due to his injury. All while the two tease eachother a little, but it's still clear that they appreciate the company and that they are about one another. It's a scene that's funny, sweet, and I feel really captures the sort of dynamic that these two share.

So, what about you all? Are there any particular platonic love/friendship moments in Rider that stick out to all of you?