AFTER WATCHING HIBIKI

[big_j_ny]

Essentially he's Kiva's Nago. Still doesn't change that, unlike Nago, he never changed that sense of morality or thought outside of it. For the entire series he's obssessed with two things: Killing Orphanochs and making Mari his girl, which he still attempts forcefully even after his denial. It's similar to Ohja's development and it made me dislike him the entire series, dunno if that was their angle.

Nago was different.........he's prolly mostly a bipolar character in a sense. Nago was the ultimate asshole for the first half of Kiva until the "Double Rider Kick" event that occurred AND basically began a progressive turning point when Nago discovered Wataru was Kiva.

From that point, Nago basically went from the "Kusaka-type" to the "Tsurugi-type" in a sense that Nago still maintains some of the same values that he had in the beginning of the series..........but he starts interacting in more "comedic" scenarios.

So if you think about it.........Nago was just, Nago. He'll be an asshole one day, then he'll be a Tsurugi-type the next day, then he'll some heroic badass another day (like when he stood up for Wataru when Shima tried to kill Kiva for being half-Fangire).

 

[Seven Year Itch]

Hibiki is awesome.

Short,Simple And True. :buttrock:

 

[junkseed]

You preferred Kusaka over Kiriya? Kusaka was an obsessed ass who barely changed despite his moments with Mari. I did appreciate his actor for making me hate him but he still wasn't a likable Rider.

Kiriya had more of a reason to be an ass, he was mostly an asshole to cover up his own insecuritites especially his envy for his hero father. We do see him fail at other stuff when he joins Hibiki's Oni training and he becomes less of an ass because of this. Preferred him being an Oni than Asuma.

I dislike them both but they both seem to have a pretty good reason to be ass just because Kiriya was a bitch doesn't mean he should act like an ass.

And Kiriya hardly changed at all, even in the final episode he was still an ass. Making him an oni was a **** move.

 

[kibapower]

I dislike them both but they both seem to have a pretty good reason to be ass just because Kiriya was a bitch doesn't mean he should act like an ass.

And Kiriya hardly changed at all, even in the final episode he was still an ass. Making him an oni was a **** move.

People handle that sort of lifestyle differently, that's just how he chose to cover it up. And he did slightly change in the finale. Though a faint trace of his smugness was there, he's not putting people down like he did before Oni training. Kusaka barely changed in comparison.

For motives, Kiriya was more fit than Asuma for an Oni, he wanted to excel at helping people and was most interested in the Oni lifestyle, while Asuma was lost with growing up and was mainly focused on Hibiki alone.