[FreshToku]

This is another of those rare Kabuto things that stuck with me since the first time I watched it, and what stuck with me is that I think it sucked too!

You already went into how heartless and unfortunate the whole sequence of events is. I remember distinctly thinking that if it just centered around like a victim-of-the-week or some character otherwise introduced really recently, it'd just be a worse (as in worse written) version of what happened to Imperer. But for this to be how Sasword's character concludes, after the show spends so much time dangling his nature as a worm over hour heads for so long, kinda stings especially bad.

I don't believe any of the writers had any long-term plan for how Tsurugi's story would conclude (which is probably why a secondary writer was allowed to be the one to write his send-off), but surely there were more interesting ways for him to go out than just 'okay hes evil now, explode him'. There were MOTW on this show that had more interesting endings, after all.

Also Misaki is just reduced to being 'person sad about Tsurugi" which is sadly expected, but she wasn't exactly the most crucial character up till now anyway, so... eh.