The story goes to great lengths to show how while being in gangs gave the main characters a sense of purpose and a community of friends, it's also a very hard life to escape and will always end in your death or the death of someone close to you. Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Inherent in delinquent media, but makes an appearance here as well.However, among Western anime and manga fans the series is one of the most hated modern shonen, not helping was Hype Backlash and the manga entering its divisive final arc around the time the series was gaining a lot of popularity. Critical Dissonance: The manga has won the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category and ranked 9th in the "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine.Just as many fans, if not moreso, think that it diminishes Kisaki's character from a cunning, ambitious villain into a psychotic incel and that it clashes far too much with the sheer extremes he went in his actions. Some fans feel that his motivation adds depth to his character and makes sense with his backstory involving her. Broken Base: Kisaki's motivation for his actions - his one-sided obsession with Hina, killing her rather than let her be with Takemichi.And with the reveal that Mikey's dark impulses originated when Senju accidentally destroyed his toy airplane, readers' opinions on Mikey became more divisive than ever. Opinion on Mikey became much more polarizing with the final arc, which has Takemichi time leap one more time to save him from becoming a criminal, with the final arc considered dragged out and unneeded by many, and Mikey ending up as the final Big Bad of the story. His detractors dislike him for becoming a terrible criminal in several future timelines due to his inner darkness. He's beloved by his fans for his badassery, carefree attitude, charisma, underlying melancholy, and friendships with characters like Takemichi and Draken. ![]() And then there's the third group, those who dislike his motive but otherwise think he's an intriguing character. However, there are some fans who find him pitiful and pointing out how the others who were quick to hate on Kisaki for his shallow Entitled to Have You motive also missed how Kisaki is also motivated in one-upping Takemichi since their Forgotten First Meeting. When his actual motive got revealed that he's motivated solely on his one-sided and unrequited obsession with Hina, many a reader were quick to jump ship, dismissing him as a simp and attribute his past feats to weak writing. He was originally relatively well-liked for being The Chessmaster who constantly threw wrenches into Takemichi's attempts to fix the future. Tetta Kisaki, the initial Big Bad of the series.The other half is far more sympathetic, given that Takemichi has witnessed the deaths of his friends repeatedly, and that being The Heart is his strongest point. ![]() ![]() There was another wave of complaints at the beginning of the final arc, where Takemichi decided to go back in time to save Mikey despite everyone else living happy lives and Mikey ordering him not to go near him again. Other complaints include how Takemichi does not use his knowledge of the future to his full advantage in preventing his friends' deaths. ![]()
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