Kamen Rider 555

Takumi is a good boy, he’s just very bad at communicating and for some reason believes things that Kusaka tells him, despite Kusaka literally always lying. Sometimes he meets new people and tells them to die. He’s not well socialised. It’s interesting having a protagonist just starting off dreamless and going with the flow and eventually growing to decide actually he likes helping people and wants to make the world better. I do feel they kind of under did his change to “I think all orphenoch should die, myself included” which may be why years later we got Jin Takayama.

My meatball angel, my sweet horse meatball. Oh how the final act failed you. You just had no idea what you were trying to do, you just knew humans sucked and you wanted Takumi to be with you. Yuuji is such a good boy. He just wanted to get along with people and be nice but everyone was awful and it’s not surprising that it broke him especially when he was constantly being lied to to stop him having any idea what was actually happening and who he could trust.

I understand he couldn’t of been Delta because we have an entire deal of the orphenoch’s being orphenoch’s and embracing that not turning against their own unnecessarily but also Come On.

Yuka deserved so much better but what we primarily got was the world’s most confusing love pentagon. Otherwise though, we get Yuka kills a lot of people in self defence or because they’re relentlessly bullying her. She just wants things to be good and to get along with people and to get a boyfriend but the world is so stubbornly working against her at every turn.

She could of also been Delta if Inoue wasn’t a coward.

Keitaro is the pure point of their triforce. He just wants to have a girlfriend and do laundry. He’ll work hard to help literally anyone with anything and believes in people constantly. Keitaro is just the hard stuck morality of the group that doesn’t waver because he genuinely wants the best for everyone and there’s nothing really testing him on that the way it does with Yuuji.

Kaido is also a strong part of completing the triforce for the orphenoch side. He’s not sold on protecting humanity, he’s not really against Smart Brain’s message because he doesn’t feel he owes humans after how he was treated. However, he can grow because he has positive influences around him helping him to reach a point where he does want to get along with people. For the most part however, he’s gonna be comedic relief.

Kusaka sucks. Weirdly, I don’t feel that strongly about him however. A lot of people seem to fall completely in love with him as a character or hate his guts and quite frankly, as long as he isn’t projecting his mother onto a 16 year old, I don’t feel that much about him. I do feel it can be a stretch to call him an anti-hero when he seems to more often just act as an outright villain. He wants all the orphenoch dead, he wants Mari to be his mother-girlfriend. At least it seems clear you’re not meant to root for him in the slightest because he’s just awful constantly.

I legitimately forgot to add him into this. I forgot he was a character. He’s so irrelevant you can literally remove him from this show and nothing changes. This man exists cause they needed more action figures. I had to go back through this post and add all these comments about Delta because he just doesn’t matter at all.