Henshin Chit-Chat Unlimited

[Painted_Outlaw]

Actually, whoever said to you obviously needs their eyes checked. It's a unanimous fact that Kiva absolutely starts to suck in the second half. The second half being after Yuri & Megumi manage to defeat the Lion Fangire Rook.

I always took as being right when Mio debuts as when it started sucking. I mean, I don't hate Yuria Haga or anything but, around her debut is where a lot of the Inoue-drama starts popping up.

but... I ended up disliking Otoya

Even after this?
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsF0afU6CPU[/ame]

The only saving grace for me is Taiga and the fights scenes with him and Wataru's Emperor form.

What fight scenes? Wasn't it sort of like a running gag that every time he got to fighting with him, something interrupted them? And, then they do fight at the end (with the mom supporting it, the hell?) but we don't even see it. :laugh:

 

[big_j_ny]

I always took as being right when Mio debuts as when it started sucking. I mean, I don't hate Yuria Haga or anything but, around her debut is where a lot of the Inoue-drama starts popping up.

Dude, the Inoue-drama was around in the beginning when Yuri & Jiro started going in 1986. It's always been there, you just ignored it for some reason until Mio's debut.

The addition of Mio was good for Wataru's character development, but the character of Mio itself just basically turned the storyline into complete Ca-Ca for Kiva. Mio had the most BIPOLAR EMOTIONS I've ever seen, love Wataru, care for Taiga, still love Wataru, resist duties of Queen Fangire, embrace duties of Queen Fangire, etc. Mio flip-flopped consistently at what the hell she wanted, so I can now understand the frustrations that most people had with Mio.

 

[Aoiblue]

She was confused though.....as I saw it XD
I still like Mio~♥

 

[Tokuboy]

Does Inoue know how to write good female leads anyway?

 

[big_j_ny]

Does Inoue know how to write good female leads anyway?

Mana from Agito.........c'mon, he at least made one good series

 

[Lynxara]

The way Inoue writes female characters is weird. He wants to put a lot more female characters into his scripts than usual, but then he tends to relegate his women to traditional roles. Occasionally Inoue is willing to put a woman in a non-traditional role but this tends to lead more or less directly to the character in question dying, either tragically or ignominiously.

 

[KouAidou]

Does Inoue know how to write good female leads anyway?

Ozawa!

 

[Tokuboy]

For some reason I tend to treat Agito as a sign of a time where Inoue was more restrained and less likely to foist annoying plot on the audience.

@Lynxara: So he likes putting in women for the sake of equalizing the cast, I'd assume.

 

[Hidden Masta]

@Lynxara: So he likes putting in women for the sake of equalizing the cast, I'd assume.

If thats the case I'd say screw it and just have one or two interesting females and then focus on your Kamen Riders.

 

[Lynxara]

@Lynxara: So he likes putting in women for the sake of equalizing the cast, I'd assume.

I'm really not sure. If Inoue was working in American TV, certainly. There's much less reason to believe that adding more female characters to a shounen franchise makes it more marketable in Japan, though.

I have long gotten the impression that Inoue adds more female characters to his shows in an effort to make them more complex. More types of different characters in the cast means more relationship variety.

That makes it a bit confusing how samey his women turn out, though. Is Toei interfering, is he getting cold feet, is he doing this subconsciously? I feel like there's no way to tell from textual analysis alone.