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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

Yeah, it always irked me how Aruto's feelings about his grandfather are all very vague and in reference to his legacy as Hiden's president...but not as his grandfather? It's never impiled or hinted at what Korenosuke's dynamic with Aruto was like post-Soreo's destruction and pre-Episode 1 (Like, we are supposed to assume he took care of Aruto personally during that time? Or the way they're implied to be slightly estranged in Ep 1 is supposed to mean he just shipped him off somewhere while he focused on maintaining Hiden?)

(Aruto's mother is such a nonexistent concept (we don't hear a lick about her ever iirc) that it makes me think Aruto's real dad just invested in the adoption/surrogate process as a single father. As for Korenosuke's choice.....I don't know about you, but no matter how cool my robot parent turned out to be, the fact that my only living relative would rather do that, than yknow, actually spend time raising me, I'd be a little miffed personally.)

I'm trying to think of Main Riders with significant mother figures.

Tendo had his grandmother but that was about it.

Ryotaro's older sister was basically his mother.

Wataru's mother was fairly plot relevant (and Megumi was kind of defined by her own mother) even if she only really did any actual mothering in, like, the last few episodes of Kiva.

Kota was another instance of a characters' older sister basically being his mother.

Sento's mom showed up for two episodes (but those were some very emotionally impactful two episodes).