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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

What about Hiromi being someone that is dangerous to use Revice Driver, and that he had a demon that he can't control at the first episode? And if you criticize Ikki for being a busybody (also being reprimanded by Yukimi to think over for his actions), then Hiromi can be quite similar that he's a reckless and impulsive person.

The big reason I say Hiromi feels the most like a straightforward hero out of any of this show's Riders has a lot to do with how the writing of the series actively encourages the viewer to consider the idea that Ikki's heroism might have a selfish motivation behind it.

A lot of people have their own ideas about how exactly demons work in this show, and how that applies to Hiromi, but looking beyond the literal rules of the show's universe, narratively, I think it's hugely significant that all of the Igarashi siblings' Rider powers come from a demon born of the parts of their personality they try to reject (Vice is self-centered; Kagerou resents Ikki; Lovekov is weak), while Hiromi's powers come entirely from his Driver. The show so far has never presented Hiromi as having any complex layers hidden underneath the surface; he's a person who says he wants to be the hero he always wished would save him, and by all accounts, that earnest desire is legitimately all there is to him.