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Originally Posted by Mesnick

And of course it's wrong to judge by this site alone, but so far the Black Sun is a rider's analogue of BvS.

There's nothing good about being compared to BvS.

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Here I will not argue, but I will indicate that, as for me, the heroes of all these adult rethinking cannot be called good.

Why the hell not?

In fact why did we even need the character of Aoi to be the main protagonist? Why couldn't it be Minami himself tat was the champion for the oppressed and victimized? Y'know, like the original would have been.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Then the revelation that he has no will of his own? That just felt so odd, especially when flashbacks showed him turning a lab into a pile of body parts before he started to cry.
I dunno.

It' also odd that they bring up the idea that a new king could have a will of his own if the person tuned into them is strong willed, and then no such thing happens.

I think it was all fluff to try and justify why Nobuhiko would want to become the new king, instead of using Aoi as he originally wanted, which really doesn't make any sense to me.

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I also wasn't really feeling Kotaro. I get the Logan vibe they were going for (And I know this style of aged hero was done way before Logan. It's just the first example that came to mind ), but they didn't give him enough life. They lacked a strong reason for why he'd protect Aoi. Yeah, she had a Kingstone, but that was kind of it. He also lacked personality. I get that he's supposed to have basically given up on life and etc, but he doesn't have to be so bland.

Kotaro really was the weakest link of this show. He spends 90% of it haggard and miserable, with no ill or drive to speak of. The few things he does he does because the plot needs him to. I genuinely never got what his "opinion" was on anything, even when he was young.

"Logan-style" weary characters are capable of having a strong sense of motivation. In fact I was waiting the whole time for Kotaro to just explode, react in some freaking way to everything around him, and take a stand to do something even if it wasn't going to fix everything. But no, he just becomes a big stupid bug again and gets milked before dying.

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Honestly, this show was alright. It's key theme is hatred, and unfortunately, it's not about overcoming hatred, but rather, fighting hatred with more hatred, if the ending is any indicator.

Which is itself a sort of cautionary tale. We saw plenty of times, even a succinct little montage, that the driving force behind the continued animosity was the "fighting hate with hate." Those Kaijin killed an innocent human, so the humans killed an innocent Kaijin, etc.

If you take the ending as a hyper cynical view that we're just doomed to kill each other forever and there's no such thing as true justice or peace, and that the only way to combat evil is to become evil and destroy lives, then it's kind of got a point in that it shows how this is all so ineffective.

But what the fuck does that have to do with Kamen Rider Black?