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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Now that you mention it, yeah, Takahashi's previous protagonists got little focus at the start of their shows. Perhaps this is the advantage of Takahashi writing Zeztz with only the Primary Rider in mind, as he acknowledged in the conference.

I think it's also worth noting that pretty much every Takahashi show has had the Secondary as the co-protagonist early on and how often they tend to dominate or take over focus on the plot. Like I remember people talking about Fuwa feeling like the real main character during certain points of Zero-One and how Keiwa initially seemed like the main POV or relatable protagonist compared to Ace in Geats.

That doesn't seem to be the case here.

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Considering the Nightmares' power to affect reality, I suspect that Baku isn't actually cosmic-level unlucky at all, but rather the Nightmares fear his lucid dreaming power and are trying to deter him from the path of a hero through negative reinforcement.

The Nightmare definitely seemed to be going out of its way to kill him specifically and also destroy all his self-confidence.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I kind of took the non-lethal bullets as a sort of play on how cleanly the violence in the stereotypical glamorous spy movie can be? Like, Baku dreams of being a cool secret agent, and all the cool tropes that come with that, but he absolutely does not dream about watching dudes bleed out from gory wounds or anything gruesome like that.

Obviously on an outside level, it's that way because this is a show for children, but I thought it made logical sense on a character level too, which is nice.

It doesn't even seem like he's destroying the Nightmares in the traditional sense, just putting them to sleep and purifying them.