Best female lead in Kamen Rider?

[big_j_ny]

Akiko is at the top of the list, like she should be. :shakefist

As much as we all love and appreciate Kamen Rider W............

PLEASE GET OFF OF DOUBLE'S D**K. You make your fanboy love of Double just as annoying as Knight Ixa's fanboy love for Den-O.

 

[XenonVincent777]

Is Misaki the female lead in Kabuto? I thought she was pretty kickass.

I'll just make a top 5

1. Hirose
2. Sakurako
3. Yui
4. Ozawa
5. Misaki

 

[Kamen Driver]

OZAWA and her love of beer is epic WIN :castlerock:

 

[KamenRiderBiblio]

Hikari Natsumi. Best female lead ever. And unlike AKiko she was revelant to the plot.

 

[NoirSon]

Hikari Natsumi. Best female lead ever. And unlike AKiko she was revelant to the plot.

Love Natsumi and think she was great... but Decade had no plot for her to be relevant to.

Really Natsumi falls into the same role as Mana and Akiko, emotional sidekick, except she got a slightly more expanded feature in some of the movies and episodes.

 

[Smilodon]

As much as we all love and appreciate Kamen Rider W............

PLEASE GET OFF OF DOUBLE'S D**K. You make your fanboy love of Double just as annoying as Knight Ixa's fanboy love for Den-O.

Finally.

 

[Hidden Masta]

Does Natsumi being a Rider + not dying count for something. I kinda think it does but I'm on the fence about it and I thought her relevance in Decade was that she would be the one to kill him.....which we magicly found out at the end of the second movie....

 

[EstelRaca]

Tough question. I really like Natsumi (wait, a female Rider who gets to live?!). She does play some of the emotional support/moral guide role in Decade, but to be fair so does pretty much everyone. Tsukasa needs as many Jiminy Crickets as he can get.

Ozawa is made of awesome. Smart, forceful, resourceful. What's not to like?

All of the Kuuga supporting characters were wonderful. They felt like real people, competent at their jobs, handling an outrageous and horrifying situation in the best way they knew how. Good female characters, good foreign characters, and an obvious firm belief that people are fundamentally good... throw in some actual competent medical knowledge (for the most part) and oh do I love this show.

I have mixed feelings about Akiko. I wish they had given her a few more scenes where she got to play things as actually serious. Yes, everyone was over-the-top a lot of times in Double, but all the male leads got a fair smattering of times when they got to play it straight. If they had done that with Akiko--given her a bit more development about what she's trying to do in Fuuto with the detective agency, given some more development between her and her father, given her some time to grieve--she could have been awesome. As she is, I just feel like she got shafted in the character development department. A lot of potential, yes, but not the follow-through I would want in an awesome female lead.

I really do hope more is done with Hina in OOOs. And though I'm pretty sure there won't be, I keep hoping we'll get some explanation for the super-strength.

Really, we just need more female Riders. Then they wouldn't have to try so desperately hard to make the female leads on par with the male leads in some other way. At least Double acknowledged that girls want to be the Rider, too, in their dream episode.

 

[Skiks]

Does Natsumi being a Rider + not dying count for something. I kinda think it does but I'm on the fence about it and I thought her relevance in Decade was that she would be the one to kill him.....which we magicly found out at the end of the second movie....

It'd count more if Decade had more of plot and if Natsumi had more of personality.

As much as we all love and appreciate Kamen Rider W............

PLEASE GET OFF OF DOUBLE'S D**K. You make your fanboy love of Double just as annoying as Knight Ixa's fanboy love for Den-O.

Throwing my bias aside I do believe Akiko counts as a top tier female lead. Despite all the hate on her persona she is really that good.
Ozawa from Agito and Miho from Ryuki would be other two I'd consider even if Miho was only in one movie.

 

[Darkster]

You didn't even mention Femme, the real female Kamen Rider. :disappoin

Hina is interesting. That much I'll give to her at this point. She's the most interesting character yet in OOO.

I think it would help if you actually look at what Akiko does and give her about the same attention as the other characters. She manages to get the Riders back on track and she reminds them of their duties when they have lost their way. She even hit the Clay Doll Dopant on the head with a slipper! That was awesome.

Kanzaki Yui is also awesome. She sticks her her principles and she doesn't give up her thoughts. She's independent, but she manages to bond with others.

Edit: Skiks mentioned Femme!