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IGARASHI DAIJI from KAMEN RIDER REVICE

JUSTIFICATION:

"Please help her out of the closet her mental illness is deadly" - Anonymous

Reminder: Submissions are always open!

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Giftober 2023 │ Day 17: Mirror

Kamen Rider Live & Kamen Rider Evil │ Daiji Igarashi & Kagero

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missing blue bird hours

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[25/08/2023]

Revice fanweek: reconciliation

Heavily based on their transformation in episode 44

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Kamen Rider Revice (2021) ↳ “Becoming Rider No. 2~♪”

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day one of revice week on twitter!

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Happy 11/23 (ii nii-san) to Igarashi Ikki only

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Sakurai Keiwa - Bouts of Hesitation.

To preface this, every person is free to interpret any character however they like, its just that there can be wrong interpretations or misguided or even biased interpretations.

As I was browsing through the Geats tag, I saw someone post about Keiwa’s hesitation in joining Ace’s DGP, a DGP without any price and prize, and how his hesitance does not make him a hero.

And that is a fair assessment, he’s just like acting like any human being, even if I disagree with the assessment. It wasn’t misguided or even biased and its not a wrong interpretation either.

It’s the reply to the post that baffles me.

The reply said “He is just like Daiji. A self-proclaimed hero with a savior complex. In other words, a villain. “

And let me tell you, I was really gobsmacked when I read that post, I had to lie in bed for a time to let that sink in, to process what I just read.

Not only did they interpreted Keiwa’s character wrong but to be fair, his character arc isn’t even finished, but they grossly misinterpreted Daiji’s character and his character arc 

They had the audacity to label both Secondary Riders as, and I quote, “a self-proclaimed hero with a savior complex.” that assessment was, true, but I was totally stunned when they equate having a savior complex into being a villain.

Like damn, what are you on?

Let’s enumerate characters who I think have a savior complex and tell me if all of them are villains.

Tadashi Hamada from Big Hero 6 (Somebody has to help)

Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto (granted he wanted to save Sasuke more often than not, but he still has a complex in saving anyone and everyone, talk no jutsu everyone?)

Eiji Hino from OOO

Sento Kiryuu from Build

Takeru Tenkuuji from Ghost

Yamato Kazakiri from Zyuohger

Keiichirou Asaka from Lupinranger vs. Patranger.

Hiromu Sakurada from Go-Busters

Marinette Dupain-Cheng from Miraculous Ladybug

Billy Batson from DC comics (not the current iteration but the iteration before the Flashpoint Paradox)

Teenage Ben Tennyson from Ben 10 Ultimate Alien (the one episode where he basically kills himself so that the sentient beings in his watch can go free should tell you that)

Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia. 

And these are just the characters at the top of my head, and I know I can fill the list with a lot characters from Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.

I think they have a savior complex? Yes, do I think they’re villains? HELL NO!.

Let’s start with Daiji as he’s a character whose character arc is done and lets jump to the time when he sided with Akaishi. The thing with Daiji is that he often views the world in black and white, Kagerou’s absence only exacerbated that view of his to the nth degree. He literally views siding with Giffu to be the safest option.

It doesn’t help that Akaishi is a master manipulator who manipulated Daiji like a fiddle, without Kagerou to help him question Akaishi’s motives, he fell right into it, hook, line, and sinker.

Akaishi being a master manipulator? Where was that? How about him running Fenix all along with people oblivious to his many motives?.

So let’s summarize Daiji’s character for this arc: He was manipulated into doing things he thinks is right with his personal fact checker absent, and you say that makes him a villain.

And who’s not a villain? Olteca?

Now for Keiwa.

It’s a known fact that Keiwa definitely has his grandiose ideals, he tried to narrow it down, but it was still as grand as his first but a little more reachable with the DGP’s wish system.

And then the whole fallout happened, I still believe that Keiwa is partially right in that Mitsume was at fault for letting things go this far, she literally voices this to Ace when they finally met. 

But she’s not fully at fault for what’s happened

In any case, Keiwa’s hesitation comes from being given a choice as opposed to not thinking about his choices and just fight for it. Both Keiwa and Neon have already proven this when the Jamato Grand Prix first started.

Keiwa and Neon joined Ace in defending the populace from the Jamato even when they know that they literally will be unpaid for their saving the world services. 

And this episode cements that, when faced with the Jamato, Keiwa’s and Neon’s first instinct was to save the civilians from the Jamato WITHOUT THEIR RIDER POWERS, there was no hesitation in trying to save the civilians from these monstrous plant creatures.

This is also not the first time Keiwa’s hesitated either. He first hesitated when he found out that the Jamato he’s fighting was the same Rider who saved him and Neon during a previous game, but Ace corrected his assumption and let him make the winning shot.

The second time he hesitated was when Archimedel targeted Sara, he hesitated because he was weighing the pros and cons of respecting Sara’s wishes of him not becoming a Rider anymore and before it was too late, he had weighed his sister’s life over respecting her wishes. (That and he was waiting to see if Ace would intervene or not)

Making snap decisions with multiple choices isn’t Keiwa’s thing. He can make snap decisions when the choices presented were doing something or doing nothing and doing nothing would pile up corpses.

If the choices are other than the two choices before, he hesitates and takes time to decide and weigh the pros and cons of his choices.

IDK about anyone but I don’t think Daiji and Keiwa’s actions aren’t villainous than say, Mitsuzane trying to save his friends in the most underhanded and heinous way possibl.

Or even Takatora.

The main difference between the characters you think who are villainous and have a savior complex is one thing, both Daiji and Keiwa do not like to sacrifice a life to achieve their goals unlike villainous character you view to have a savior complex, they have the mentality of “inevitable casualties”

And that difference doesn’t make Keiwa, or even Daiji, a villain.

Thoughts @acequinz @narashikari @rainixdra ???

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Goddammit Keiwa, don’t go all Kaito/Daiji on us.

Just tell him the admins forced her to do it.

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I got bored so I made a meme.

I'm just saying.

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Character Song for Daiji Igarashi and Kagero

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Giftober 2023 │ Day 9: Shadows/Silhouettes

never-ending battles

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sakura igarashi #1 best rider !!

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Almost forgot I was gonna do this! Here's a drawing for Day 1: Snapshot!

I'm only around halfway through the season, so no spoilers! Also please don't tag any of this as ship, thank you!

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Kamen Rider Revice (2021) ↳ “Revice Spin-Off Drama: DEAR GAGA”