Kamen Rider Ex-Aid

Emu is a complex character throughout the show. He’s always trying his best to be kind, but he’s got a very cruel side to him. He’s someone that wants to be good and do good but is flawed. He wants everyone to work together but settles when they don’t. He never truly gets that connection with Hiiro or Taiga. He doesn’t have any issues with killing Parad other than he can’t without losing his powers. So he just traumatises him and is more than happy to just put a training collar on him when offered. He’s just gonna put up with Kuroto forever. Everything is happening to him so much, he’s had chronic depression since childhood, he tried to kill himself when he was 8, he almost failed out of his dream job because he was too depressed and just spent all his time on video games. I say he’s not my favourite protagonist but he’s got such an energy for just depressed little man that’s always doing his best even though his best sometimes ain’t great.

Hiiro has this potential, like there’s many points in the series I thought “Finally, Hiiro’s going to sort this out and start to recover”. The issue is, Ex-Aid desperately doesn’t want Hiiro to grow as a person, and would rather he continually relapses into his misery over the death of a girlfriend he never cared for when she was alive. Even after she has told him directly that she wants him to stop it and give up on her and move on with his life.

Ex-Aid writers, why did you write this if you weren’t going to actually let him do it?

Taiga I feel more for. Kamen Rider Snipe definitely aided his story and let us see why he is who he is. He’s also a really good brother character for Nico, and it feels really unnecessary for them to push a romance between the two. I’m glad that got trampled down in specials and movies and they were allowed more of their sibling relationship.

Dusk also pointed out Taiga is just constantly squinting (when Ukyo does not) and we noted Taiga never seems to notice things until Nico points to them. Taiga needs glasses, that’s what I’m getting at. That man has his little sister acting as his eyes because he won’t just go to an optician.

This one is the angel that made me keep watching this show. I loved him instantly. This gay bike is the only reason they achieved anything in this show, without him they’d of never worked out a single one of the mysteries. He worked out like half the twists in the series in like a month. Kiriya is the only true genius in Ex-Aid (Show and Rider).

God cursed my home by making everyone in this series semi-related via his OCs (or their own OCs). I love him more than words can say.

Someone save me.

i don’t like poppy

I love Nico so much, she will fight everyone she can and came in here ready to hire a hitman to take down Emu. She’s also the only one who could beat rider chronicle and they had to nerf her. A horrible choice, I say we let Nico destroy Gamedeus with her own two hands.

I also don’t actually hate her going off with Luke because I don’t really see it as her getting into a relationship or anything. I took it as her expanding her opportunities and getting some of her independence back after, y’know, repeated hospitalisation. I wish they’d wrote it different to reflect that but noooo we have to have silly romance and her getting harassed. I’m just saying I don’t see her going as accepting those feelings, not suggesting I like Luke.