Your most hated Kamen rider character?

[ferosaki]

it's kusaka, along with mitsuzane (not for long until he reach his criticl point)
and those two..i looooove them to hate

in a good way of course

 

[Captain McSteamy]

Any and all humans that are on theRider's "team" that doesn't henshin.

 

[lazycoconut]

Any and all humans that are on theRider's "team" that doesn't henshin.

It annoys me how the "heart of the team" character almost never gets to transform or do anything other than provide emotional support. (Usually because it's a female character, but not always - examples include Koutaro from Blade and Keitaro from Faiz.) I also hate it when a character who should be capable of something important never gets to do it. I really like Hina for example, she's one of my favourite Rider girls ... but her superhuman strength is never explained and never really put to any useful purpose. People will defend that and say she chooses not to fight but that's just it, she didn't make that choice. Had the show let her do that, it could have been good. As it is, it's just never explained or put to any use, so it is a waste. It's like if we'd been told that Shunpei could teleport, yet he never did it and it was never mentioned again.

I know that he's a character that you're meant to hate (see my various previous Faiz rants detailing my theory that the show is all about discrimination and Kaixa is the show's two-dimensional racist) but they did too good a job and he ended up being central to everything wrong with that show.

Hey, now, not everything. It's not his fault that Takumi and Kiba were apparently incapable of having the simplest conversation with each other

Yuuki was probably the most prominent victim of the writing situation for that show. One writer thinks she's the heart of the team, the other thinks she's a shrieking space otaku, and the head writer never clamped down and forced his two underlings to follow a particular path. The same thing happens with a number of characters in Fourze, including Gentaro.

Yuuki was supposed to have traits of both Gentaro (friendly, perky) and Kengo (smart, interested in space ... yes, smart, remember how it was mentioned that her grades were almost as good as Kengo's and she spent her time studying at JAXA after school? Or how Gamou was impressed with her knowledge of space in the Virgo episodes?) So that she understood them both and could act as an intermediary between them. Somehow that got turned into "human howler monkey" when Sanjo was writing and I wish I knew why. Having now seen more of his work he seems to have a fixation with wanting main female characters to be super-cute and "genki"

Honestly it's difficult to make me truly dislike a character because I don't judge fictional people the same way I judge real people. I'll accept any amount of bad behaviour from a fictional character so long as I feel the show is also disapproving of it. I also hate being presented with a character that I'm obviously being pushed to have a specific opinion on without being shown why I should hold that opinion (a gap between telling and showing, I guess). Koyomi irritated me because the show obviously expected me to like her, but I couldn't see what was likable about this whiny, sullen girl with no charisma or personable qualities.

The only real Koyomi fans I've seen are people who ship her with Haruto and I suspect that's because there basically is nothing to her besides Haruto. She wasn't long around enough to get invested in her as a character in her own right, and when she was around she'd usually get cast as the damsel in distress. The show wanted you to care about her because Haruto did, but she was basically used to further his character and there was very little left over for her

 

[Artisan]

In recent memory, Shunpei comes to mind.

It's not solely because this consistent wardrobe disaster is carried overwhelmingly by unfunny Japanese slapstick humour done ad nauseum as if the crew had no other joke in mind. My beef with him is chiefly to do with how wasted he is.

He could have been intriguing second rider material. No, perhaps he could have been Kousuke, and it would save having those superfluous introductory episodes for Kousuke himself. The early fan speculation that Shunpei would serve as an apprentice never materialised until the very last, lazily applied moments of Shunpei inexplicably deciding to be a ring apprentice to Wajima, and on his own, there's no good reason why the guy has to even exist beyond the episodes when he is the Gate of the fortnight.

But no. Instead, he hangs around as the show's Jar Jar Binks. He falls over incessantly, because it would be totally funny if we repeat that twenty more times. His clothes are an eyesore, and then came Daisuke Ishibashi to make two of the worst episodes of Rider ever conceived by a human being jointly starring Shunpei with a lobotomised Rinko.

Are these grounds for "hating" this fictional character? Probably not. If there's one thing I can use the word for, it is to say that I "hate" what they've done with him.

 

[Kai Yamato]

Mine is Nago. There are just no redeeming features to him at all. He makes Tendou look modest, he's not funny, he's every cliche of the rival character up to eleven. His bizarre pseudo-Christianity is actually offensive and worse still a character I might have liked (Megumi) gets saddled with him.

Funny I have that same problem with Accel and Meteor. I never understand why they're so popular with people. They just seem to be rival character archetypes to the max that is overglorified so much.

 

[Lockon]

Funny I have that same problem with Accel and Meteor. I never understand why they're so popular with people. They just seem to be rival character archetypes to the max that is overglorified so much.

Weird, I liked Ryu because he's reasonable most of the time. He has his couple of hangups, but they don't 100% dominate his character, nor are they absurd. He has his desire for revenge, but it's not the only reason he's ever around, as he still has his duties as a police detective and performs them well, and he does get over his jerk attitudes outside of his pursuit of the Weather Dopant, which, again, is due to his emotions messing with his rationality, not just him being a jerk to be a jerk, and that's before we get into Shroud's encouragement and pushing.

On the other hand, we have Nago. See, I never figured out Nago. His obsession with Kiva is completely beyond reason, with NO REAL(No, this bullshit about sinners is neither acceptable or reasonable. And the whole "human potential" thing? He's worse than a heretical Christian, he's the mutant child of the worst parts of Christian sects and humanists. Like Richard Dawkins with a Pope's hat.)explanation, as well as his Lawful Stupid Idiot Paladin attitude got on MY nerves. Seriously, there's a reason SIC does the smart thing and makes him the bad guy.

 

[kuroihikari]

Ryusei was awesome because he played the straight man really well. His reactions to the hijinks his team did and/or got themselves into was consistently funny.

The batsh-t crazy Bruce Lee moment (and its aftermath) in the space cadet exam was probably my favorite moment of Fourze.

 

[Kai Yamato]

I just can never like them by how much they're preened and that they get a lot of praise by just simply existing. That's what put me off. I suppose that's Riku Sanjo's weakness as a writer. He writes one look so good while at the same time ruining others. (Like making Amy fall in love with Daigo in Kyoryuger)

 

[lazycoconut]

I just can never like them by how much they're preened and that they get a lot of praise by just simply existing. That's what put me off. I suppose that's Riku Sanjo's weakness as a writer. He writes one look so good while at the same time ruining others. (Like making Amy fall in love with Daigo in Kyoryuger)

But every woman in Kyoryuger other than Yuko was a love interest for a guy. I think Sanjo just got too caught up in the soap-opera stuff and wanting everyone to have a romance ... there still is no good reason why Daigo needed three women to fall for him though

People tend to love rival/anti-hero characters and it seems the target audience does too (the popularity of Kaito this year is another good example.) But Terui was not supposed to be perfect. He had everything Shotaro wanted, but he was desperately unhappy. His example was part of the process of Shotaro discovering that being "hard-boiled" isn't all it's cracked up to be, and learning that he (Shotaro) didn't have to do everything the way Narumi would have done it.

 

[Bryd0]

Another character I don't like... Haruto Souma. Compared to other Kamen Rider protagonists where they have either a charm to them and other things, Haruto is equivalent to a plank of wood. His cry for Koyomi before he gained Infinity Style still irks me. Lack of emotion in it whatsoever. Anyone else agree?