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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

You're welcome to disagree. It wouldn't be an unpopular opinion otherwise.



See, the stuff with Kaito's abusive father and the death of his mother is exactly the kind of backstory that should've been in the show, before he declared his intent to destroy humanity. Regardless of his noble intentions, the end doesn't justify the means. Making a better world isn't worth sacrificing all the innocent lives as well and I was hoping that all his experience up to that point would have led him to that conclusion.

Kouta's and Kaito's showdown seemed inevitable but it shouldn't have been the final battle. Kaito wasn't given a chance to redeem himself, like Kiba was. They could have teamed up to destroy Mitsuzane, as Takumi and Kiba did against the King. It's a shame for Kaito to have his philosophy challenged so many times only for him to become the final villain anyway. It's just not very consistent. Destroying humanity was Horobi's goal from the start and it was clear he was starting to doubt himself and lose faith in his philosophy. That's how I believe such an arc should be executed, with an antivillain reforming himself as hero.

That’s kind of against the whole point of his character though. He’s meant to be the type of character who actually holds onto his unhealthy beliefs, as opposed to the cliche of giving them up just because of a sappy speech. Which is a lot more realistic and fresh than, say, Ryusei basically deciding to embrace friendship just because Gentaro let himself get stabbed.

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That's not really the take I had at all. I think Mitsuzane is the most depraved character in KR

Based on what? This franchise is full of serial killers, sexual predators and wannabe omnicidal maniacs. The same series had a character nuking America.. Micchy’s worst vice is that he’s a control freak and that only really starts when he finds out the world is doomed, I’d probably go crazy if I found out the world was going to end.

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He has no redeeming qualities. The only reason the show redeemed him was cause the show needed him to and his sudden heroism in the finale, which was written by Haganeya, was OOC since he had nothing to gain[

No redeeming qualities? The due goes nuts so he can save the people he loves and his antagonism towards Kouta is very clearly a mid-season development, rather than something he’s been holding onto since forever. And also there’s this new concept. It’s called “forgiveness.” Everyone’s done something terrible, it’s a fact of life. But we don’t send everyone to the execution block over one bad deed. We give them a chance to make up for it, and if they are t willing to do it, THEN we condemn them.