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Maybe because one of Tsurugi’s core characteristics was his genocidal hatred of the Worms, despite unknowingly being the Scorpio Worm that caused his hatred in the first place? And my point was that Tsurugi shifted into a comic relief character to cover the absence of Daisuke starting with his crush on Misaki, but that shift in comedy didn’t magically make him human or remove his “the only good Worm is a dead Worm” mentality when dealing with the series monsters. It’s like if Kusaka was suddenly a okay with Orphanoch if he became one, it’s a complete betrayal of this aspect of their characters.

But that doesn’t change that he was introduced as a more (comparatively) serious and hate filled character and I wouldn’t be shocked that the general story beats of his ending were planned from the start (finding out he was the Scorpio Worm and then orchestrating a scenario for his own death while getting as many Worm killed as possible)

I mean look at Ankh another character drastically changed by rewrites, saved from becoming the final major villain of the show. But he still is a villain for most of the final quarter of the show (and before that an anti-hero at best before it), he still dies in the ending and Toei still refuses 10 years later to let him be resurrected despite that they could of and not contradict Mega Max

And my reason for hating the “joke” is due to that level of disassociation of reality that he’s playing towards is how people start believing in conspiracy theories, and considering how many friendships and familial relationships have been ruined by that on my side I was never going to like it.