[Talisman]

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Originally Posted by SanoBaron

I never really saw Kaito as someone who was a villain at all. Anti-hero yes, but not a villain. He never really fought anybody weaker than him unless challenged and one can see that his "the strong should protect the weak" and "I must become the strongest" mentalities both coincide with each other. I mean, he had taken a lot of crap from people who were stronger than him and I can see how he'd be like "no one should have to deal with what I did." and just strove to become the strongest and tell the other strong people to get their act together. To me, Kaito is similar to Kouta, he just took a path that was harder.

He was hardly a hero either. Look at how he treated the Beat Rider teams that joined his "alliance" in the first arc. It was less an alliance and more of a feudal system with all the "subjects" paying homage to Team Baron in the form of their best dancers. Kaito was genuine with his intentions, but it's the fact that he constantly seemed to go back and forth that makes him so polarizing. I can get a feel for his character, but it's just so inconsistently handled that it takes a few repeat viewings to truly figure out what the hell is going through that single-track mind of his.

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Originally Posted by TheXrosLoaderGen

That is also very true.

Yoko tends to be pretty divisive due to her characterization. I'm pretty sure that it's something lost in the cultural transition/translation that makes her come off as... odd to us outsiders.