[TheRaizin]

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Originally Posted by Layton13

Horrobi: I know I'm gonna get shit for this, but I'll get this off my chest. Aruto and Horrobi have no real connection or rivalry throughout the show. Why, if this was always the plan did it feel like this final battle had no build-up at all? And even when it happened, it wasn't about how Humagears should be treated, it was about revenge. You know why? Because that was the only reason this fight would be interesting in the slightest. And worst of all, Horobi's hatred for humanity has nothing to stand on and is hollow. It's not built from experience, it is simply the will of the Ark, which really robes any last chance he could be interesting.

I will agree that Horobi and Aruto have no real rivalry in the show. The two had small bits of banter in the first quarter, but their connection only ever returned during the end of the 3rd quarter and then the 4th quarter.

However, I will say that Horobi's hatred for humanity, at first, isn't through his own volition and is there because the Ark programmed him to act like that. Much like how early Jin behaves as well. It wasn't until they defeat the Ark where Horobi gets his own reasoning to his hatred of humanity. He even spells it out: "As long as humans exist, there will always be the possibility of an Ark returning."