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Originally Posted by Locke

The more I watch of him, the more I believe he's perfectly sane. His actions scream of desperation, not madness, and he is just a child, a spoilt, bratty child. So although to us his actions seem horrifying, I'm not really sure he's quite aware of the gravity of what he is actually doing. When a child lashes out in a tantrum, he doesn't think about how that impacts those around him and obviously this is much more extreme than that but to simply call Micchy insane and leave it at that, doesn't give the complexity of his character what he is due.

And I know the irony of this coming from my mouth but this episode made me appreciate the characters in a way I just hadn't until this point. It's like all at once the characters clicked and fell into place for me.

Yeah, this certainly is odd coming from you Locke

But yes, I would have to agree with what you said about Micchy. Certainly valid given that the show is basically about kids who were forced to grow up too fast; Micchy probably serves as the extreme case of this. He was too immature to fully understand the power that was given to him and the weight of his actions. Kouta suffered with that at the beginning as well, but like Takatora mentioned, Kouta ended up fine because of good guidance from his sister. Micchy, on the other hand, had Takatora, who always pushed him too hard and basically helped mold him into a twisted version of himself.