I liked him when he wasn't a god
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I give it an A. It looked great, I enjoyed the characters, and loved its messsage of friendship. Bonus points for pissing off so many entitled fanboys.
I give it an A. It looked great, I enjoyed the characters, and loved its messsage of friendship. Bonus points for pissing off so many entitled fanboys.
But the girls in the show were either useless or annoying and got little development which you get upset with the Gokai Gals because they got either "shafted" or had to be helped by the guys.
There's a difference between that happening to female rangers and it happening to supporting characters. The Kamen Rider club may show up every episode, but they are not supposed to be treated as important as a Rider/Ranger and I don't think we're every going to see a group of supporting cast members get developed or used in a significant way, and if you're going to hate a series for it you might as well hate almost every series for it.
There's a difference between that happening to female rangers and it happening to supporting characters. The Kamen Rider club may show up every episode, but they are not supposed to be treated as important as a Rider/Ranger and I don't think we're every going to see a group of supporting cast members get developed or used in a significant way, and if you're going to hate a series for it you might as well hate almost every series for it.
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There's a reason why Ahim needed to be helped by her friends, she felt broken and alone after seeing the monster that had burned her parents to death right in front of her eyes, because deep down she's still a princess, and still misses her parents.
Miu and Tomoko felt nothing but love bait for Ryusei and Shun, JK seems to be the KRC member with the most development. And again with a show whose whole concept is based around friendship, you don't really see a whole lot of it with underdeveloped characters.
Kengo or Yuuki are easily more developed than JK, but JK got two mini-arcs focused on him, whereas Tomoko and Shun got one each. Miu got two as well, but the "prom" episodes didn't really develop her character as much as the Capricorn story did with JK.
A part of me thinks that JK actually did develop more than Yuuki did. Whereas JK changed from being a seemingly heartless, user-friendly coward to someone who cherishes his friends and one who suddenly has gall to come up against Tatsugami, no matter how brief that moment is, Yuuki... basically remained the same all throughout the show. Or at least, that's how I see her.