while Kouta is man that at the end did saved the world but had to make a compromise.
This doesn´t diminishes Kouta as a character, but it does shifts away the story from being a heroic tale.
Again, it was a good tale, but not necesarily a Kamen Rider tale.
Not a single one of these things is true, especially considering how the definition of "Kamen Rider" has changed so much over the years anyway.
Where is this supposed compromise of Kouta's? Kaito? To call
that his compromise is to disregard Kaito as a character and Kouta's understanding of him. To say that "well he couldn't do what he wanted without" is to ignore the fact that he couldn't do what he wanted
until he got the Golden Fruit, which was a large part of the point of the show. To hold Kaito's death against him is just missing so many points of the show that it's ridiculous.
How is it not a heroic tale? Our hero goes through the story, grows as a character, and saves the world. He gives himself up to do it in the process. That's fairly straightforward.
As for Kamen Rider? As I already pointed out, the lone hero fighting against the all odds, protecting the world from his lonely road, no longer being human? That's arguably more Kamen Rider than a lot of the previous Heisei shows, and it fits Kouta to a T. To say he's not one is, again, another falsehood, as is to use his transformed state as evidence that he doesn't have a "mask." He still transforms into Kiwami, guys. That's to show that he's no longer human, if anything...
Just like all the old Kamen Riders! So rather than being the death of Kamen Rider, as some of you are suggesting, I believe this is still very much the
birth of a Kamen Rider - but perhaps a
new one, of the (newer?) modern era of Kamen Rider, in which, among other things, we have magical girls like Madoka contrasting the ones we're used to.
You clearly don't. None of these conditions you list are anything close to describing evolution. Adaptation whether it be developing a physical characteristic or developing tools or technology is not evolution. Evolution in a nutshell requires the development of heritable characteristic (so changes in the reproductive cells) that can be passed on to the progeny. This is pretty much what happens with Kouta, Kaito, Mai and all the Overlords. The development of new heritable traits as a result of contact with Helheim pretty much made them evolve
He gets it. :thumbs:
The fact is: Helheim killed a lot of people, and it's definitely not a neutral force of nature that's simply just there. It's a sentient being that can communicate and that makes choices. Bottomline: Evil, by most human standards.
Hurricanes also kill people. Causing death, when talking about nature, does not mean something is or isn't evil, and if Sagara is simply the forest's avatar, an analogy for, say, a hurricane, then that sort of thing doesn't apply on the scale we're discussing. Likewise, I already talked about this sort of thing, more or less, when I talked about evolution and adaptation on the previous page.