[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

Also, shout out to Niram for standing up to Suell.

This is a very example of bad guys being at conflict due to differing views on "how to run the world". It'd be one way of how bad guys can get into an infighting. It should still not be overlooked (depending on the reason you appreciate him here) despite Niramu being victimized and thus evoking sympathy. It's still not about him having moral limits or on the path of redemption, just not Suel's equal, of which if he is the outcome can be different but still a bad guy infighting either way.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I think that even Michinaga fans hardly consider him flawless. Rather, they just like him more than the rest of the riders in the show. Personally, I can't help but be touched by the fact that two riders had to be added to the plot, whose main task for most of their episodes was to think instead of Buffa.

You can like villains or terrible people while acknowledging their crimes. So yeah, These kind of things shouldn't be explained as due to liking him (or other similar kind of characters).

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

And I also want to mention the numerous betrayals from Michinaga. He betrayed Merry, he betrayed Beroba, he betrayed his Jamato friend and, in a way, he betrayed Nadge. Of course, one can argue that all these characters are villains, but personally they did nothing wrong to him. However, the show didn't give him the opportunity to betray the Geats during their collaboration, which means Michinaga is likely to get away with it.

As said above, these moments would be celebrated due to him taking out evildoers, which would benefit others, like beating up Chirami one, and beating up bad guys would be what people see as "heroic" (including the view that bad guys are bad because the heroes beat them up). Albeit, it should not matter if they personally did nothing wrong to him, taking action against injustice others suffered from, and I'd still consider these acts as him displaying standards, but still low ones and I wouldn't elevate him like these viewers do.