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Nothing. Just Shidou Kyoichi hanging out with some (ex-) main villain.

brushbuddy doodles <3

You've heard of Chord Assassination Technique now get ready for…BONK!!!

I sketched this from this @cerbykerby post FOREVER ago but I finally finished it lol

On The Road Again!

Used a template with slight modifications.

Unwilling to leave out Jin Zixuan, I added one more image of him.

Last August when she was exposed as such she posted two threads on Twitter/X, the first ‘explaining her side of things’ which was deleted when she didn’t get the response she was wanting, and the second (also deleted) backtracking as well. Here is a link to the post with both threads and a succinct summary of both

She’s come forward now to represent herself as having changed and learned all while supporting a ‘two state solution’ and before privatting her twitter/x and tumblr likes, this post by swordbunnies shows the truth of what pakhnokh has been supporting

^ ngl there were a few times where I was like why are you telling them that dude is so honest 😭

Tbh Koei’s bluntness is one of the fun things about his character, he doesn’t beat around the bush, like “if I have a problem with you then I’m gonna tell you in your face!”

But seriously, what kind of shinobi skills did they even teach him 😭

Even when they were infiltrating the X-team place to save Makoto and Gabu he went out of his way to wear a disguise only to PPSSSHHHHTT! Put them all to sleep 😭

He's straightforward but also tricky & quite unpredictable in battle, oh the duality of Koei the Ninja Rider... He also likes to do some brutal technique BUT also used the same technique to help people.

He was cruel and stayed cruel in the manga, and seeing how he acted the first time he showed up, maybe they intended to keep that characterization..

But then decided like nah he’s an Idaten bike rider gotta make him good!

So they suddenly made him respectful and doesn’t like to cheat, even though he literally interrupted Sho and Kyoichi’s battle, didn’t dven go to win but tried to crush them instead, crushed Kyoichi, but didn’t take his emblem! Is he being respectful again here like “I didn’t win in an official battle so I’m not gonna take the emblem, I crushed you because I had to!” Kind of way? But then he decided to have an actual battle without interruptions with Sho, then what was that with Kyoichi before? 😭

They then introduced his sister just to reinforce that he’s a good guy forced into the bad guy act idea 😭

My god he sounds like a monster when you describe it... maybe you're right, but I think it can be rationalized as "he's also a teen and Team ST's bad influence made him a monster".

Tbf he didn't target Sho after Kyoichi crashed him out of the course, so maybe Koei feels like "well you want to fight against me ALONE, so don't feel too confident" and decided to go full Asshole Mode

The Manga is completely different from the anime though..

I found a Japanese Website that summerized what happened in every volume, along side some of the things I knew from the Japanese wikipedia page..

The biggest difference is that there’s no isekai aspects!

The entire world they live in is pretty much like X-zone in the anime, where they can use superpowers and control everything with MTB..

If I remember right, Takeshi had a team (can’t remember its name) I don’t remember what happened to them but they were like.. the biggest team in X-Zone, which is just an area in their world (not a different world), then something happened and Team Shark Tooth took over, Gabu was the leader, Taiga was an evil bastard who cheated in his battles and got kicked from the team because Gabu didn’t expect him to be a cheater 😭

It’s like they flipped Gabu and Taiga’s personalities!

Koei was a part of Team ST, and of course he was also an evil bastard 😭

There are more details that I forgot, but I’ll leave the website here:

https://mangapedia.com/IDATEN翔-h7lskcy9l

I 100% prefer the anime for how they handled Gabu’s character development!

I can’t really judge the manga without reading it but clearly they didn’t have that 😭

The Samejima brothers’ parents for example!!

Literally I’m here making headcanons and even made AI pictures of how their parents would look like 😭

I need to know what kind of childhood they had!

But also? I kinda like that I don’t know so I can analyze and make my own conclusions 😭

A while ago I had a dream where we got season 2 😭

And I got to see a few scenes of it, most likely a climax of an arc where they’re at X-zone again and Taiga, and the other older riders like Koei and arthur, and probably Kyoichi too? Were being mind-controled by a villain, causing them to attack the other younger riders like Gabu, Sho, and Makoto (Ayumu and Kakeru were still around probably but I don’t remember the details)

It’s quite a big deal to Gabu cause his brother who’s only been nice to him, is showing him a face he’s never and will never show him, cruelty!

So Gabu has to fight to bring his brother back..

But what I remember clearly is the moment everyone’s back to normal, they’re all celebrating, and in the corner there were Taiga and Gabu, Taiga was probably thanking Gabu for bringing him back to normal, while holding back tears, Gabu couldn’t hold it anymore, so he hugged Taiga with tears in his eyes, so Taiga hugged him back, smiling but also with tears in his eyes!

This scene is a big deal cause we’ve never seen them crying nor hugging in the actual anime!

I already know why I had this dream LOL, cause Taiga being controled and turned EVIL is a scenario I thought about, I wanted to make an AU out if it, so my brain was like okay how about we make this real and fulfill your wish by making it happen on screen!?

Even in dreams Kyoichi abd Taiga couldn't catch a break 🤣🤣 so it's a fusion of some "What If"s and the plot of the second part of the story?

You can tell what kind of stuff I think about all the time, that my subconcious finally decided it’s worth dreaming about! 😭

I LOOOVVVE plots where someone gets mind controled and ends up hurting their loved ones, it created all kinds of drama that I LIVE FOR!!

I kinda got that with Kyoichi in the last arc in the anime!

But you know why this would be a delicious plot for the Samejimas?

Because Gabu was willingly acting evil, ended up hurting Taiga, Taiga didn’t blame him at all, and I bet Gabu didn’t apologize either!

So if Taiga never got mad shile concious, then he will take revenge while being mind-controled!

And because Gabu changed you know he will regret everything!

He has to face his guilt and his brother’s cruelty and it’ll HURRRRTT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Then when Taiga goes back to normal he’ll be tormented by guilt as well “I can’t believe I hurt you!”

But then Gabu cries “No! I deserved that!”

THIS IS SOO DELICIOUS OMG I HONESTLY CANT IMAGINE GABU BEING HEARTBROKEN BUT I BET IT'S AWESOME (and painful)

It’s the gap of Gabu being always tough, but then ends up doing something vulnerable, because it’s not like him it means a lot when he does it 😭

Oh wow!

Many people could look at it and dismiss it as a “Children Anime” but once you actually watch it with intent, these characters are handled with a lot of care!

Even good people, or protagonists can make mistakes, can hurt people, because they are all “people” at the end of the day, of course they make mistakes!

Tbh even other well-written stories end up making their stories protagonist centric in a way, like the protagonist has to be the one to defeat the main villain, they don’t let somebody do it, One Piece might be a good example of that, I guess it’s a Shounen trope..

I agree that it was rushed with its finale!

Seriously we could have had less traveling monster of the week episodic stuff and gave more time to the final arc 😭

The lack of backstories is in that weird middle, the characters are all well-written, their personalities usually stays consistent, you still get attached without knowing their backstories, and the anime gives enough hints for us the fans to draw our own conclusions..

BUT STILL! I REALLY WANTED TO SEE SOME BACKSTORIES!!!

It’s like, I wish I got more content, but I’m also having fun making my own backstories in my head because I don’t have official ones!

YES, the fun part of fangirling the protagonist-centric story is scraping for hints for other characters. Pattern recognization, comparing with similar character/story, catching plot points even when it was misanimated or just the writers thinking "yeah this conflict would make the story more interesting even thought it contradicts some elements"...

(in Kamen Rider Gavv, ironically, the one I was scraping for hints was the protagonist himself X"D he was like the blorbo gremlin of his own series)

Like when the whole team fights and defeats the antagonist, or when each one of the characters in the team fights when their specialty works best..

Tbh I don’t remember seeing the trope broken a lot, but I remember in Monogatari where the protagonists asked a former villain of another arc to defeat the current antagonist of the arc, he did, without the protagonists’ interferring!

Character like Kyoichi commonly becomes the hero's rival. He's young but rational, blunt, sassy, and kind of cold. But rather than bitter rival (he IS a rival, but in different flavor), Kyoichi became Sho's mentor and surrogate brother, and he's actually kindhearted, sensible, imperfect (he can still misjudged people and situation), not overly arrogant (his ((what seemed to be)) arrogance only used as motivation for Sho), a not-really-aloof big bro, barely has resentment for anyone, and never blamed anyone for his own screwups.

Almost every shonen has at least one dead or deadbeat dad who was busy with works or was evil. Takeshi never wanted to be a deadbeat dad or an evil one, but he ended up as one against his will. When he tried to go back to earth it became the start of chaos, but he didn't die. He ended up getting his happy ending.

^ ngl there were a few times where I was like why are you telling them that dude is so honest 😭

Tbh Koei’s bluntness is one of the fun things about his character, he doesn’t beat around the bush, like “if I have a problem with you then I’m gonna tell you in your face!”

But seriously, what kind of shinobi skills did they even teach him 😭

Even when they were infiltrating the X-team place to save Makoto and Gabu he went out of his way to wear a disguise only to PPSSSHHHHTT! Put them all to sleep 😭

He's straightforward but also tricky & quite unpredictable in battle, oh the duality of Koei the Ninja Rider... He also likes to do some brutal technique BUT also used the same technique to help people.

He was cruel and stayed cruel in the manga, and seeing how he acted the first time he showed up, maybe they intended to keep that characterization..

But then decided like nah he’s an Idaten bike rider gotta make him good!

So they suddenly made him respectful and doesn’t like to cheat, even though he literally interrupted Sho and Kyoichi’s battle, didn’t dven go to win but tried to crush them instead, crushed Kyoichi, but didn’t take his emblem! Is he being respectful again here like “I didn’t win in an official battle so I’m not gonna take the emblem, I crushed you because I had to!” Kind of way? But then he decided to have an actual battle without interruptions with Sho, then what was that with Kyoichi before? 😭

They then introduced his sister just to reinforce that he’s a good guy forced into the bad guy act idea 😭

My god he sounds like a monster when you describe it... maybe you're right, but I think it can be rationalized as "he's also a teen and Team ST's bad influence made him a monster".

Tbf he didn't target Sho after Kyoichi crashed him out of the course, so maybe Koei feels like "well you want to fight against me ALONE, so don't feel too confident" and decided to go full Asshole Mode

The Manga is completely different from the anime though..

I found a Japanese Website that summerized what happened in every volume, along side some of the things I knew from the Japanese wikipedia page..

The biggest difference is that there’s no isekai aspects!

The entire world they live in is pretty much like X-zone in the anime, where they can use superpowers and control everything with MTB..

If I remember right, Takeshi had a team (can’t remember its name) I don’t remember what happened to them but they were like.. the biggest team in X-Zone, which is just an area in their world (not a different world), then something happened and Team Shark Tooth took over, Gabu was the leader, Taiga was an evil bastard who cheated in his battles and got kicked from the team because Gabu didn’t expect him to be a cheater 😭

It’s like they flipped Gabu and Taiga’s personalities!

Koei was a part of Team ST, and of course he was also an evil bastard 😭

There are more details that I forgot, but I’ll leave the website here:

https://mangapedia.com/IDATEN翔-h7lskcy9l

I 100% prefer the anime for how they handled Gabu’s character development!

I can’t really judge the manga without reading it but clearly they didn’t have that 😭

The Samejima brothers’ parents for example!!

Literally I’m here making headcanons and even made AI pictures of how their parents would look like 😭

I need to know what kind of childhood they had!

But also? I kinda like that I don’t know so I can analyze and make my own conclusions 😭

A while ago I had a dream where we got season 2 😭

And I got to see a few scenes of it, most likely a climax of an arc where they’re at X-zone again and Taiga, and the other older riders like Koei and arthur, and probably Kyoichi too? Were being mind-controled by a villain, causing them to attack the other younger riders like Gabu, Sho, and Makoto (Ayumu and Kakeru were still around probably but I don’t remember the details)

It’s quite a big deal to Gabu cause his brother who’s only been nice to him, is showing him a face he’s never and will never show him, cruelty!

So Gabu has to fight to bring his brother back..

But what I remember clearly is the moment everyone’s back to normal, they’re all celebrating, and in the corner there were Taiga and Gabu, Taiga was probably thanking Gabu for bringing him back to normal, while holding back tears, Gabu couldn’t hold it anymore, so he hugged Taiga with tears in his eyes, so Taiga hugged him back, smiling but also with tears in his eyes!

This scene is a big deal cause we’ve never seen them crying nor hugging in the actual anime!

I already know why I had this dream LOL, cause Taiga being controled and turned EVIL is a scenario I thought about, I wanted to make an AU out if it, so my brain was like okay how about we make this real and fulfill your wish by making it happen on screen!?

Even in dreams Kyoichi abd Taiga couldn't catch a break 🤣🤣 so it's a fusion of some "What If"s and the plot of the second part of the story?

You can tell what kind of stuff I think about all the time, that my subconcious finally decided it’s worth dreaming about! 😭

I LOOOVVVE plots where someone gets mind controled and ends up hurting their loved ones, it created all kinds of drama that I LIVE FOR!!

I kinda got that with Kyoichi in the last arc in the anime!

But you know why this would be a delicious plot for the Samejimas?

Because Gabu was willingly acting evil, ended up hurting Taiga, Taiga didn’t blame him at all, and I bet Gabu didn’t apologize either!

So if Taiga never got mad shile concious, then he will take revenge while being mind-controled!

And because Gabu changed you know he will regret everything!

He has to face his guilt and his brother’s cruelty and it’ll HURRRRTT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Then when Taiga goes back to normal he’ll be tormented by guilt as well “I can’t believe I hurt you!”

But then Gabu cries “No! I deserved that!”

THIS IS SOO DELICIOUS OMG I HONESTLY CANT IMAGINE GABU BEING HEARTBROKEN BUT I BET IT'S AWESOME (and painful)

It’s the gap of Gabu being always tough, but then ends up doing something vulnerable, because it’s not like him it means a lot when he does it 😭

Oh wow!

Many people could look at it and dismiss it as a “Children Anime” but once you actually watch it with intent, these characters are handled with a lot of care!

Even good people, or protagonists can make mistakes, can hurt people, because they are all “people” at the end of the day, of course they make mistakes!

Tbh even other well-written stories end up making their stories protagonist centric in a way, like the protagonist has to be the one to defeat the main villain, they don’t let somebody do it, One Piece might be a good example of that, I guess it’s a Shounen trope..

I agree that it was rushed with its finale!

Seriously we could have had less traveling monster of the week episodic stuff and gave more time to the final arc 😭

The lack of backstories is in that weird middle, the characters are all well-written, their personalities usually stays consistent, you still get attached without knowing their backstories, and the anime gives enough hints for us the fans to draw our own conclusions..

BUT STILL! I REALLY WANTED TO SEE SOME BACKSTORIES!!!

It’s like, I wish I got more content, but I’m also having fun making my own backstories in my head because I don’t have official ones!

YES, the fun part of fangirling the protagonist-centric story is scraping for hints for other characters. Pattern recognization, comparing with similar character/story, catching plot points even when it was misanimated or just the writers thinking "yeah this conflict would make the story more interesting even thought it contradicts some elements"...

(in Kamen Rider Gavv, ironically, the one I was scraping for hints was the protagonist himself X"D he was like the blorbo gremlin of his own series)

Like when the whole team fights and defeats the antagonist, or when each one of the characters in the team fights when their specialty works best..

Tbh I don’t remember seeing the trope broken a lot, but I remember in Monogatari where the protagonists asked a former villain of another arc to defeat the current antagonist of the arc, he did, without the protagonists’ interferring!

^ ngl there were a few times where I was like why are you telling them that dude is so honest 😭

Tbh Koei’s bluntness is one of the fun things about his character, he doesn’t beat around the bush, like “if I have a problem with you then I’m gonna tell you in your face!”

But seriously, what kind of shinobi skills did they even teach him 😭

Even when they were infiltrating the X-team place to save Makoto and Gabu he went out of his way to wear a disguise only to PPSSSHHHHTT! Put them all to sleep 😭

He's straightforward but also tricky & quite unpredictable in battle, oh the duality of Koei the Ninja Rider... He also likes to do some brutal technique BUT also used the same technique to help people.

He was cruel and stayed cruel in the manga, and seeing how he acted the first time he showed up, maybe they intended to keep that characterization..

But then decided like nah he’s an Idaten bike rider gotta make him good!

So they suddenly made him respectful and doesn’t like to cheat, even though he literally interrupted Sho and Kyoichi’s battle, didn’t dven go to win but tried to crush them instead, crushed Kyoichi, but didn’t take his emblem! Is he being respectful again here like “I didn’t win in an official battle so I’m not gonna take the emblem, I crushed you because I had to!” Kind of way? But then he decided to have an actual battle without interruptions with Sho, then what was that with Kyoichi before? 😭

They then introduced his sister just to reinforce that he’s a good guy forced into the bad guy act idea 😭

My god he sounds like a monster when you describe it... maybe you're right, but I think it can be rationalized as "he's also a teen and Team ST's bad influence made him a monster".

Tbf he didn't target Sho after Kyoichi crashed him out of the course, so maybe Koei feels like "well you want to fight against me ALONE, so don't feel too confident" and decided to go full Asshole Mode

The Manga is completely different from the anime though..

I found a Japanese Website that summerized what happened in every volume, along side some of the things I knew from the Japanese wikipedia page..

The biggest difference is that there’s no isekai aspects!

The entire world they live in is pretty much like X-zone in the anime, where they can use superpowers and control everything with MTB..

If I remember right, Takeshi had a team (can’t remember its name) I don’t remember what happened to them but they were like.. the biggest team in X-Zone, which is just an area in their world (not a different world), then something happened and Team Shark Tooth took over, Gabu was the leader, Taiga was an evil bastard who cheated in his battles and got kicked from the team because Gabu didn’t expect him to be a cheater 😭

It’s like they flipped Gabu and Taiga’s personalities!

Koei was a part of Team ST, and of course he was also an evil bastard 😭

There are more details that I forgot, but I’ll leave the website here:

https://mangapedia.com/IDATEN翔-h7lskcy9l

I 100% prefer the anime for how they handled Gabu’s character development!

I can’t really judge the manga without reading it but clearly they didn’t have that 😭

The Samejima brothers’ parents for example!!

Literally I’m here making headcanons and even made AI pictures of how their parents would look like 😭

I need to know what kind of childhood they had!

But also? I kinda like that I don’t know so I can analyze and make my own conclusions 😭

A while ago I had a dream where we got season 2 😭

And I got to see a few scenes of it, most likely a climax of an arc where they’re at X-zone again and Taiga, and the other older riders like Koei and arthur, and probably Kyoichi too? Were being mind-controled by a villain, causing them to attack the other younger riders like Gabu, Sho, and Makoto (Ayumu and Kakeru were still around probably but I don’t remember the details)

It’s quite a big deal to Gabu cause his brother who’s only been nice to him, is showing him a face he’s never and will never show him, cruelty!

So Gabu has to fight to bring his brother back..

But what I remember clearly is the moment everyone’s back to normal, they’re all celebrating, and in the corner there were Taiga and Gabu, Taiga was probably thanking Gabu for bringing him back to normal, while holding back tears, Gabu couldn’t hold it anymore, so he hugged Taiga with tears in his eyes, so Taiga hugged him back, smiling but also with tears in his eyes!

This scene is a big deal cause we’ve never seen them crying nor hugging in the actual anime!

I already know why I had this dream LOL, cause Taiga being controled and turned EVIL is a scenario I thought about, I wanted to make an AU out if it, so my brain was like okay how about we make this real and fulfill your wish by making it happen on screen!?

Even in dreams Kyoichi abd Taiga couldn't catch a break 🤣🤣 so it's a fusion of some "What If"s and the plot of the second part of the story?

You can tell what kind of stuff I think about all the time, that my subconcious finally decided it’s worth dreaming about! 😭

I LOOOVVVE plots where someone gets mind controled and ends up hurting their loved ones, it created all kinds of drama that I LIVE FOR!!

I kinda got that with Kyoichi in the last arc in the anime!

But you know why this would be a delicious plot for the Samejimas?

Because Gabu was willingly acting evil, ended up hurting Taiga, Taiga didn’t blame him at all, and I bet Gabu didn’t apologize either!

So if Taiga never got mad shile concious, then he will take revenge while being mind-controled!

And because Gabu changed you know he will regret everything!

He has to face his guilt and his brother’s cruelty and it’ll HURRRRTT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Then when Taiga goes back to normal he’ll be tormented by guilt as well “I can’t believe I hurt you!”

But then Gabu cries “No! I deserved that!”

THIS IS SOO DELICIOUS OMG I HONESTLY CANT IMAGINE GABU BEING HEARTBROKEN BUT I BET IT'S AWESOME (and painful)

It’s the gap of Gabu being always tough, but then ends up doing something vulnerable, because it’s not like him it means a lot when he does it 😭

Oh wow!

Many people could look at it and dismiss it as a “Children Anime” but once you actually watch it with intent, these characters are handled with a lot of care!

Even good people, or protagonists can make mistakes, can hurt people, because they are all “people” at the end of the day, of course they make mistakes!

Tbh even other well-written stories end up making their stories protagonist centric in a way, like the protagonist has to be the one to defeat the main villain, they don’t let somebody do it, One Piece might be a good example of that, I guess it’s a Shounen trope..

I agree that it was rushed with its finale!

Seriously we could have had less traveling monster of the week episodic stuff and gave more time to the final arc 😭

The lack of backstories is in that weird middle, the characters are all well-written, their personalities usually stays consistent, you still get attached without knowing their backstories, and the anime gives enough hints for us the fans to draw our own conclusions..

BUT STILL! I REALLY WANTED TO SEE SOME BACKSTORIES!!!

It’s like, I wish I got more content, but I’m also having fun making my own backstories in my head because I don’t have official ones!

YES, the fun part of fangirling the protagonist-centric story is scraping for hints for other characters. Pattern recognization, comparing with similar character/story, catching plot points even when it was misanimated or just the writers thinking "yeah this conflict would make the story more interesting even thought it contradicts some elements"...

(in Kamen Rider Gavv, ironically, the one I was scraping for hints was the protagonist himself X"D he was like the blorbo gremlin of his own series)

^ ngl there were a few times where I was like why are you telling them that dude is so honest 😭

Tbh Koei’s bluntness is one of the fun things about his character, he doesn’t beat around the bush, like “if I have a problem with you then I’m gonna tell you in your face!”

But seriously, what kind of shinobi skills did they even teach him 😭

Even when they were infiltrating the X-team place to save Makoto and Gabu he went out of his way to wear a disguise only to PPSSSHHHHTT! Put them all to sleep 😭

He's straightforward but also tricky & quite unpredictable in battle, oh the duality of Koei the Ninja Rider... He also likes to do some brutal technique BUT also used the same technique to help people.

He was cruel and stayed cruel in the manga, and seeing how he acted the first time he showed up, maybe they intended to keep that characterization..

But then decided like nah he’s an Idaten bike rider gotta make him good!

So they suddenly made him respectful and doesn’t like to cheat, even though he literally interrupted Sho and Kyoichi’s battle, didn’t dven go to win but tried to crush them instead, crushed Kyoichi, but didn’t take his emblem! Is he being respectful again here like “I didn’t win in an official battle so I’m not gonna take the emblem, I crushed you because I had to!” Kind of way? But then he decided to have an actual battle without interruptions with Sho, then what was that with Kyoichi before? 😭

They then introduced his sister just to reinforce that he’s a good guy forced into the bad guy act idea 😭

My god he sounds like a monster when you describe it... maybe you're right, but I think it can be rationalized as "he's also a teen and Team ST's bad influence made him a monster".

Tbf he didn't target Sho after Kyoichi crashed him out of the course, so maybe Koei feels like "well you want to fight against me ALONE, so don't feel too confident" and decided to go full Asshole Mode

The Manga is completely different from the anime though..

I found a Japanese Website that summerized what happened in every volume, along side some of the things I knew from the Japanese wikipedia page..

The biggest difference is that there’s no isekai aspects!

The entire world they live in is pretty much like X-zone in the anime, where they can use superpowers and control everything with MTB..

If I remember right, Takeshi had a team (can’t remember its name) I don’t remember what happened to them but they were like.. the biggest team in X-Zone, which is just an area in their world (not a different world), then something happened and Team Shark Tooth took over, Gabu was the leader, Taiga was an evil bastard who cheated in his battles and got kicked from the team because Gabu didn’t expect him to be a cheater 😭

It’s like they flipped Gabu and Taiga’s personalities!

Koei was a part of Team ST, and of course he was also an evil bastard 😭

There are more details that I forgot, but I’ll leave the website here:

https://mangapedia.com/IDATEN翔-h7lskcy9l

I 100% prefer the anime for how they handled Gabu’s character development!

I can’t really judge the manga without reading it but clearly they didn’t have that 😭

The Samejima brothers’ parents for example!!

Literally I’m here making headcanons and even made AI pictures of how their parents would look like 😭

I need to know what kind of childhood they had!

But also? I kinda like that I don’t know so I can analyze and make my own conclusions 😭

A while ago I had a dream where we got season 2 😭

And I got to see a few scenes of it, most likely a climax of an arc where they’re at X-zone again and Taiga, and the other older riders like Koei and arthur, and probably Kyoichi too? Were being mind-controled by a villain, causing them to attack the other younger riders like Gabu, Sho, and Makoto (Ayumu and Kakeru were still around probably but I don’t remember the details)

It’s quite a big deal to Gabu cause his brother who’s only been nice to him, is showing him a face he’s never and will never show him, cruelty!

So Gabu has to fight to bring his brother back..

But what I remember clearly is the moment everyone’s back to normal, they’re all celebrating, and in the corner there were Taiga and Gabu, Taiga was probably thanking Gabu for bringing him back to normal, while holding back tears, Gabu couldn’t hold it anymore, so he hugged Taiga with tears in his eyes, so Taiga hugged him back, smiling but also with tears in his eyes!

This scene is a big deal cause we’ve never seen them crying nor hugging in the actual anime!

I already know why I had this dream LOL, cause Taiga being controled and turned EVIL is a scenario I thought about, I wanted to make an AU out if it, so my brain was like okay how about we make this real and fulfill your wish by making it happen on screen!?

Even in dreams Kyoichi abd Taiga couldn't catch a break 🤣🤣 so it's a fusion of some "What If"s and the plot of the second part of the story?

You can tell what kind of stuff I think about all the time, that my subconcious finally decided it’s worth dreaming about! 😭

I LOOOVVVE plots where someone gets mind controled and ends up hurting their loved ones, it created all kinds of drama that I LIVE FOR!!

I kinda got that with Kyoichi in the last arc in the anime!

But you know why this would be a delicious plot for the Samejimas?

Because Gabu was willingly acting evil, ended up hurting Taiga, Taiga didn’t blame him at all, and I bet Gabu didn’t apologize either!

So if Taiga never got mad shile concious, then he will take revenge while being mind-controled!

And because Gabu changed you know he will regret everything!

He has to face his guilt and his brother’s cruelty and it’ll HURRRRTT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Then when Taiga goes back to normal he’ll be tormented by guilt as well “I can’t believe I hurt you!”

But then Gabu cries “No! I deserved that!”

THIS IS SOO DELICIOUS OMG I HONESTLY CANT IMAGINE GABU BEING HEARTBROKEN BUT I BET IT'S AWESOME (and painful)

It’s the gap of Gabu being always tough, but then ends up doing something vulnerable, because it’s not like him it means a lot when he does it 😭

Oh wow!

Many people could look at it and dismiss it as a “Children Anime” but once you actually watch it with intent, these characters are handled with a lot of care!

Even good people, or protagonists can make mistakes, can hurt people, because they are all “people” at the end of the day, of course they make mistakes!

^ ngl there were a few times where I was like why are you telling them that dude is so honest 😭

Tbh Koei’s bluntness is one of the fun things about his character, he doesn’t beat around the bush, like “if I have a problem with you then I’m gonna tell you in your face!”

But seriously, what kind of shinobi skills did they even teach him 😭

Even when they were infiltrating the X-team place to save Makoto and Gabu he went out of his way to wear a disguise only to PPSSSHHHHTT! Put them all to sleep 😭

He's straightforward but also tricky & quite unpredictable in battle, oh the duality of Koei the Ninja Rider... He also likes to do some brutal technique BUT also used the same technique to help people.

He was cruel and stayed cruel in the manga, and seeing how he acted the first time he showed up, maybe they intended to keep that characterization..

But then decided like nah he’s an Idaten bike rider gotta make him good!

So they suddenly made him respectful and doesn’t like to cheat, even though he literally interrupted Sho and Kyoichi’s battle, didn’t dven go to win but tried to crush them instead, crushed Kyoichi, but didn’t take his emblem! Is he being respectful again here like “I didn’t win in an official battle so I’m not gonna take the emblem, I crushed you because I had to!” Kind of way? But then he decided to have an actual battle without interruptions with Sho, then what was that with Kyoichi before? 😭

They then introduced his sister just to reinforce that he’s a good guy forced into the bad guy act idea 😭

My god he sounds like a monster when you describe it... maybe you're right, but I think it can be rationalized as "he's also a teen and Team ST's bad influence made him a monster".

Tbf he didn't target Sho after Kyoichi crashed him out of the course, so maybe Koei feels like "well you want to fight against me ALONE, so don't feel too confident" and decided to go full Asshole Mode

The Manga is completely different from the anime though..

I found a Japanese Website that summerized what happened in every volume, along side some of the things I knew from the Japanese wikipedia page..

The biggest difference is that there’s no isekai aspects!

The entire world they live in is pretty much like X-zone in the anime, where they can use superpowers and control everything with MTB..

If I remember right, Takeshi had a team (can’t remember its name) I don’t remember what happened to them but they were like.. the biggest team in X-Zone, which is just an area in their world (not a different world), then something happened and Team Shark Tooth took over, Gabu was the leader, Taiga was an evil bastard who cheated in his battles and got kicked from the team because Gabu didn’t expect him to be a cheater 😭

It’s like they flipped Gabu and Taiga’s personalities!

Koei was a part of Team ST, and of course he was also an evil bastard 😭

There are more details that I forgot, but I’ll leave the website here:

https://mangapedia.com/IDATEN翔-h7lskcy9l

I 100% prefer the anime for how they handled Gabu’s character development!

I can’t really judge the manga without reading it but clearly they didn’t have that 😭

The Samejima brothers’ parents for example!!

Literally I’m here making headcanons and even made AI pictures of how their parents would look like 😭

I need to know what kind of childhood they had!

But also? I kinda like that I don’t know so I can analyze and make my own conclusions 😭

A while ago I had a dream where we got season 2 😭

And I got to see a few scenes of it, most likely a climax of an arc where they’re at X-zone again and Taiga, and the other older riders like Koei and arthur, and probably Kyoichi too? Were being mind-controled by a villain, causing them to attack the other younger riders like Gabu, Sho, and Makoto (Ayumu and Kakeru were still around probably but I don’t remember the details)

It’s quite a big deal to Gabu cause his brother who’s only been nice to him, is showing him a face he’s never and will never show him, cruelty!

So Gabu has to fight to bring his brother back..

But what I remember clearly is the moment everyone’s back to normal, they’re all celebrating, and in the corner there were Taiga and Gabu, Taiga was probably thanking Gabu for bringing him back to normal, while holding back tears, Gabu couldn’t hold it anymore, so he hugged Taiga with tears in his eyes, so Taiga hugged him back, smiling but also with tears in his eyes!

This scene is a big deal cause we’ve never seen them crying nor hugging in the actual anime!

I already know why I had this dream LOL, cause Taiga being controled and turned EVIL is a scenario I thought about, I wanted to make an AU out if it, so my brain was like okay how about we make this real and fulfill your wish by making it happen on screen!?

Even in dreams Kyoichi abd Taiga couldn't catch a break 🤣🤣 so it's a fusion of some "What If"s and the plot of the second part of the story?

You can tell what kind of stuff I think about all the time, that my subconcious finally decided it’s worth dreaming about! 😭

I LOOOVVVE plots where someone gets mind controled and ends up hurting their loved ones, it created all kinds of drama that I LIVE FOR!!

I kinda got that with Kyoichi in the last arc in the anime!

But you know why this would be a delicious plot for the Samejimas?

Because Gabu was willingly acting evil, ended up hurting Taiga, Taiga didn’t blame him at all, and I bet Gabu didn’t apologize either!

So if Taiga never got mad shile concious, then he will take revenge while being mind-controled!

And because Gabu changed you know he will regret everything!

He has to face his guilt and his brother’s cruelty and it’ll HURRRRTT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Then when Taiga goes back to normal he’ll be tormented by guilt as well “I can’t believe I hurt you!”

But then Gabu cries “No! I deserved that!”

THIS IS SOO DELICIOUS OMG I HONESTLY CANT IMAGINE GABU BEING HEARTBROKEN BUT I BET IT'S AWESOME (and painful)

It’s the gap of Gabu being always tough, but then ends up doing something vulnerable, because it’s not like him it means a lot when he does it 😭

Oh wow!

^ ngl there were a few times where I was like why are you telling them that dude is so honest 😭

Tbh Koei’s bluntness is one of the fun things about his character, he doesn’t beat around the bush, like “if I have a problem with you then I’m gonna tell you in your face!”

But seriously, what kind of shinobi skills did they even teach him 😭

Even when they were infiltrating the X-team place to save Makoto and Gabu he went out of his way to wear a disguise only to PPSSSHHHHTT! Put them all to sleep 😭

He's straightforward but also tricky & quite unpredictable in battle, oh the duality of Koei the Ninja Rider... He also likes to do some brutal technique BUT also used the same technique to help people.

He was cruel and stayed cruel in the manga, and seeing how he acted the first time he showed up, maybe they intended to keep that characterization..

But then decided like nah he’s an Idaten bike rider gotta make him good!

So they suddenly made him respectful and doesn’t like to cheat, even though he literally interrupted Sho and Kyoichi’s battle, didn’t dven go to win but tried to crush them instead, crushed Kyoichi, but didn’t take his emblem! Is he being respectful again here like “I didn’t win in an official battle so I’m not gonna take the emblem, I crushed you because I had to!” Kind of way? But then he decided to have an actual battle without interruptions with Sho, then what was that with Kyoichi before? 😭

They then introduced his sister just to reinforce that he’s a good guy forced into the bad guy act idea 😭

My god he sounds like a monster when you describe it... maybe you're right, but I think it can be rationalized as "he's also a teen and Team ST's bad influence made him a monster".

Tbf he didn't target Sho after Kyoichi crashed him out of the course, so maybe Koei feels like "well you want to fight against me ALONE, so don't feel too confident" and decided to go full Asshole Mode

The Manga is completely different from the anime though..

I found a Japanese Website that summerized what happened in every volume, along side some of the things I knew from the Japanese wikipedia page..

The biggest difference is that there’s no isekai aspects!

The entire world they live in is pretty much like X-zone in the anime, where they can use superpowers and control everything with MTB..

If I remember right, Takeshi had a team (can’t remember its name) I don’t remember what happened to them but they were like.. the biggest team in X-Zone, which is just an area in their world (not a different world), then something happened and Team Shark Tooth took over, Gabu was the leader, Taiga was an evil bastard who cheated in his battles and got kicked from the team because Gabu didn’t expect him to be a cheater 😭

It’s like they flipped Gabu and Taiga’s personalities!

Koei was a part of Team ST, and of course he was also an evil bastard 😭

There are more details that I forgot, but I’ll leave the website here:

https://mangapedia.com/IDATEN翔-h7lskcy9l

I 100% prefer the anime for how they handled Gabu’s character development!

I can’t really judge the manga without reading it but clearly they didn’t have that 😭

The Samejima brothers’ parents for example!!

Literally I’m here making headcanons and even made AI pictures of how their parents would look like 😭

I need to know what kind of childhood they had!

But also? I kinda like that I don’t know so I can analyze and make my own conclusions 😭

A while ago I had a dream where we got season 2 😭

And I got to see a few scenes of it, most likely a climax of an arc where they’re at X-zone again and Taiga, and the other older riders like Koei and arthur, and probably Kyoichi too? Were being mind-controled by a villain, causing them to attack the other younger riders like Gabu, Sho, and Makoto (Ayumu and Kakeru were still around probably but I don’t remember the details)

It’s quite a big deal to Gabu cause his brother who’s only been nice to him, is showing him a face he’s never and will never show him, cruelty!

So Gabu has to fight to bring his brother back..

But what I remember clearly is the moment everyone’s back to normal, they’re all celebrating, and in the corner there were Taiga and Gabu, Taiga was probably thanking Gabu for bringing him back to normal, while holding back tears, Gabu couldn’t hold it anymore, so he hugged Taiga with tears in his eyes, so Taiga hugged him back, smiling but also with tears in his eyes!

This scene is a big deal cause we’ve never seen them crying nor hugging in the actual anime!

I already know why I had this dream LOL, cause Taiga being controled and turned EVIL is a scenario I thought about, I wanted to make an AU out if it, so my brain was like okay how about we make this real and fulfill your wish by making it happen on screen!?

Even in dreams Kyoichi abd Taiga couldn't catch a break 🤣🤣 so it's a fusion of some "What If"s and the plot of the second part of the story?

You can tell what kind of stuff I think about all the time, that my subconcious finally decided it’s worth dreaming about! 😭

I LOOOVVVE plots where someone gets mind controled and ends up hurting their loved ones, it created all kinds of drama that I LIVE FOR!!

I kinda got that with Kyoichi in the last arc in the anime!

But you know why this would be a delicious plot for the Samejimas?

Because Gabu was willingly acting evil, ended up hurting Taiga, Taiga didn’t blame him at all, and I bet Gabu didn’t apologize either!

So if Taiga never got mad shile concious, then he will take revenge while being mind-controled!

And because Gabu changed you know he will regret everything!

He has to face his guilt and his brother’s cruelty and it’ll HURRRRTT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Then when Taiga goes back to normal he’ll be tormented by guilt as well “I can’t believe I hurt you!”

But then Gabu cries “No! I deserved that!”

THIS IS SOO DELICIOUS OMG I HONESTLY CANT IMAGINE GABU BEING HEARTBROKEN BUT I BET IT'S AWESOME (and painful)