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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I thought this comes from the side effect of losing Kagerou (getting purified from his demon, but actually half his emotions just disappeared) that made Daiji change - Daiji gets disturbed or interrupted by his inner side less often (like normal humans' level, his "chaos" part makes him question if a lawful path is wrong and not good that time), making him more unhinged, less hesitant, less conflicted, inability to question his actions.

That's probably the show's intention, but symbolically, it still doesn't make any sense to me. Kagerou is Kamen Rider Evil, not Kamen Rider Chaotic, after all. The absence of Evil shouldn't have had any effect on Daiji's law-chaos axis, but oh well, I gave up on applying logic to this show after the whole memory loss nonsense.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I know that you properly considered Daiji an anti-villain, and you've acknowledged before that Ikki shouldn't let Olteca have his way, but still, not exclusively the sentence here, but regarding how that people can think that the heroes can be really incredulous and imposing with their ideals (and this happens in many of these kind of stories), and by this... pins all the blame on the heroes instead and somehow absolve any of these bad guys from blame (them, not you). I wonder what'd be the proper way to convince them that they're wrong and try to change them... urgently... to prevent people being hurt by them. I know you usually think of becoming an example to others via action, but I thought it also can be ineffective due to their differing values on processing that actions (e.g. also like viewers only deeming all heroes' triumph as plot armor).

Well, other than Daiji's siblings being poor advocates for freedom, I think this arc in general is ridiculous for how easily Akaishi convinced a significant majority that Gif is totally some lonely mistreated dude who just wants to be friends with humans. Instead of anybody asking for evidence or confirmation from Gif to support this, they immediately take his word for it! Daiji stands out for being a main character, but a lot of the characters here are too dumb to be reasoned with via normal means, when a basic value like freedom shouldn't be something you'd even need to advocate for in the modern day. The world of Revice is somehow like an entire society of gullible subservient Aguileras. The only good thing to come out of this contrived insanity is the Daiji Rage Quit meme.

Outside of Revice though, yeah, the "practice what you preach" method to convince others is effective, but like you said, it can be a slow process. In a hurry, well, sometimes it's necessary to use limited force, as we previously discussed regarding the manipulated civilians in Bima. Something to prevent them from doing harm until a long-term solution is found, preferably without anything severe like maiming.