When I was a kid my dad would always watch reruns of jetman, kamen rider black and mighty morphin with me. It was a thing I enjoyed and cherished especially after his death last year. Even now certain toku scenes make me cry at the memories of good times.
I recently went back to watching toku after seeing a gaia memory in a toy store. And as I look back now, it was a really fun ride watching toku again. So I made a list of the top toku characters.
P.S. Sorry for not adding much metal hero. I haven't watched enough to put it on my list. I'm liking what I see so far though. Especially Gavan.
15-6 is just a list of those who I like after my top 5. Top 5-1 will be the ranked ones.
I'll try to make this as spoiler free as I can.
So enjoy my list of top toku characters.
15. Kamen rider Ouja/Takeshi Asakura
Watching ryukia when I was 7, Asakura scared the shit out of me. Ouja was an excellent villain for me at the time. He was pure evil and every moment with him was terrifying when I was a kid. As I grew older, my ideal villain has always been villains like him. Ruthless, arrogant and amusing. But in a way sad and pitiful. His desire and way of life turned my fear into wonder, amusement and even a small sense of admiration.
14. Otoya Kurenai/proto-Ixa/Dark kiva.
This guy was awesome. Sure he was a bit eccentric and arrogant. But when he wasn't playing around, he was very capable. Despite his character, Otoya had one of the more beautiful views of life in Kiva. He was unshakable when he had to fight and he wasn't the selfish prick people saw him as in the beginning. And I think he would have been a great father if he was alive during wataru's time.
13.Kazuma Kenzaki/Blade
During my time in the province I was able to watch the english dub of Blade on cartoon network. Kenzaki easily grew to be one of my favorite riders. Especially during the ending. His will to fight for what he believes in, despite his gullibleness made me admire him a lot. Plus I really thought his king for was cool, even I thought it was spammed way too much. But the ending gave it a lot of reason so I was like 'WOAHHHHH!" when I watched it. It was kinda weird how ruthless he was when it came to fighting decade in the last episode though. I mean this was the guy who made a 3rd choice when forced to kill a rider.
12. Ahim De Famille/ Gokai pink
Okay first of all I think Ahim is adorable in every way possible. Now that that's out of the way I'll actually give a better reason for her on the list. She's different from the five core members of the group. She's hesitant when it comes to abandoning others when zangyack attacked and is the most 'human' member of the gokaigers. And her reason for being a space pirate was absolutely beautiful. To show the surviving people of her planet she was alive and fighting for them by becoming a wanted criminal in the zangyack empire, is just heart warming.
11. Gavan/Retsu Ichijou.
I haven't watched much metal heroes but I recently started watching Gavan. It's pretty good so far and I'm loving Retsu's character. His personality, beliefs and over all charisma are things that I really admire. The words Yoroshiku Yuuki has been stuck in my head since the gokaigers cross over too. Though I haven't watched enough to say how much I like him compared to everyone, but even now he's part of my favorites.
10. Black Condor/ Yuki Gai
As I said, I watched jetman with my oldman as a kid. I barely remeber much of it but I do remember two things clearly; Yellow owl flung giant rocks and black condor made me cry. At first I didn't remember why. While I watched gokaigers I found out something that disturbed me a bit. Black condor was dead as of jetman's ending. He was probably the most vibrant Ranger in my memory as memories of his drinking scenes were embed in my head. Despite that I loved the guy as a character. Yeah, I hated him at the start. But he grew on my like mold on soggy bread. Finding out he was dead years later finally explained why he fell asleep at the end of the series in my blurry memoies.(I was 5 years old!). And how my dad explained it to me at that age still made me cry.
9. Negataros/ Nega Den-o.
Despite what everyone was saying about the den-o films, Negataros was a pretty solid villain. He almost succeeded in his plans. If it wasn't for kiva cock-blocking him before he could kill den-o. Don't really know much about him cause he was barely given any history. He's still one of the best dark riders/ Kaijin I've seen.
8 . Basco Ta Jolokia
Basco was brilliant. He honestly had every reason to rebel against Akared. Despite what it looks like, he was lied to by Akared. His only mistake was thinking Marvelous was like Akared. He was charismatic, smart and was usually two steps ahead of the gokaigers. Even if he was a jerk for killing Sally, it only proved how far he was willing to go to get the greatest treasure in the universe.
7. Akibared/Nobuo Akagi
C'mon it takes a lot of balls to be that eccentric about what you love the most. Akagi is a true sentai fan. His hyperactive personality and obsession with sentai was a lot of fun and it never got old. He always found a way to be funny with out over using his sentaifanboy persona. He shouldn't try to be official anymore so we can get more episodes of Akibaranger.
6. Kamen rider Faiz/ Takumi Inui
Takumi is really cool in my eyes. He's a pretty good guy but people often don't see it cause he's always frowning all the time. He's just afraid of hurting people if they rely too much on him, which I understand a lot. It's hard to have people rely on you, harder when you're likely to disappoint them or not meet their expectations. Regardless of his fears, he fought as faiz when he had to. He shows that even if you don't have dreams, you can make something of yourself.
