[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I guess Michinaga remembered Ace's trick from the musical chair round, allowing his Driver to be taken so he could get closer to DGP's secrets. Here, Ace thought he was the one playing Michinaga by feigning his defeat and shooting away the Vision Driver, but Michinaga and Beroba were playing him and Niram the whole time. While the result for everybody else is bad, I have to respect that totally bad*ss tactical move, as Buffa got to simultaneously take out the two strongest Riders in the game and become the Jyama God!

Niram showing himself to Ace in Mitsume's chamber was a pretty climactic scene, leading to him inadvertently fulfilling his role as the JPG final boss. It fully established Niram as a Real villain who wants to continue DGP's format of granting ideal worlds and has no problem with sacrificing countless people's happiness and lives to keep it going, including Ace and especially Mitsume. I wonder if Michinaga has anything special planned for him in his new world, being the Producer for the game that ruined his life.

While Michinaga pulls a badass move here (albeit it's a dirty one, to some people, contrasting his supposed fair-play tendencies), I hope that people still understand why Michinaga never got an upper hand to Ace before, instead of only complaining the story favors Ace (of which you sounds like it in your opening sentence here). Of course Niram is villainous, but I hope this isn't used to think Beroba and the Jamatos are in the right or such. More like disapproving of "real hero" or "real villain" arguments, there can be more than 1 villains, there can be multiples of them. Evil vs evil is a thing, many happens in KR, like Daguva murdering the Grongi tribe or ZAIA vs MetsubouJinrai.net.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I was thinking of Odin for how Buffa's going to function in the Desire Royale, siding with the monsters, forcing the Riders in to a fight to the death, while giving himself the ultimate power advantage so he can crush whoever's left. Although Michinaga wanting the fight to continue for its own sake is closer to the stated motivation of fellow purple Rider, Asakura, except Michinaga is harmless to civilians and has a sense of honor.

Bruh... what are you smoking here? Michinaga personally creates the Heaven and Hell game which traps the civilians in the floating city and had the Evil Goddess sent them falling below the pits except the last one standing. I won't like it if Niram's callous actions got overlooked to Ace above only because "it doesn't result in a murder", but I don't know if you absolve Michinaga in this only because it's not directly in his hands those civilians perished for now? He's the Game Master after taking the Vision Driver in ep. 28. He has grievance over the DGP, and perhaps he made that game to show how it works, but he's still a hypocrite who has no problems imitating what the DGP or (worst) Riders did, killing people himself to prove a point. I thought your grievance of Gaim is that the assholes like Kaito aren't redeemed in the end but escalated and got stopped? Because Michinaga also escalated; I hope people who actually pointed out how shitty Michinaga is aren't viewed by you as "people who hold grudges and can't forgive or let go"... (though I disagree with those who want to use him as deserving target of sadistic pleasure).