Was Kusaka REALLY that bad?

Kusaka's actions overall just caused a chain reaction of stupidity that could easily have been avoided not to mention prevented Mari from getting killed the first time. Hell, He couldn't even leave Hanagata in peace. Hence, when Yuji actually killed him, I saw it as Yuji's accumulation of anger over the series towards Kusaka.:laugh:

Heck, Narutaki should focus his anger on Kusaka...dumbass probably started the fight between the Showa and Heisei.:redface2:

Toku Prime said:

Within the context of that, Kusaka was the 'far-right racist' character.

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Racist, I can see. But I don't get what is "right-wing" about him, much less "far-right". In that case he would have tried to declare himself world emperor on top of his shenanigans. That also implies that there are no racist tendencies on the Left.

Then again... Kaixa = "Kaiser". Kusaka is a lost Hohenzollern!! :O_O:

lazycoconut said:

I like Kusaka. Mainly because he's not someone we're supposed to see as heroic - Kusaka, an antagonist, being a dick is less aggravating to me than Takumi, who should be the hero, being a dick. By the end of the show I was positively rooting for Kusaka to kill the rest of the cast because I found them all so loathsome, particularly Kiba. Kiba is just a piece of ****, if any of the Faiz cast is to be held up as the worst character in the franchise it should be him.

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Now there's a refreshing viewpoint if I ever saw one.

Black Fang said:

Racist, I can see. But I don't get what is "right-wing" about him, much less "far-right". In that case he would have tried to declare himself world emperor on top of his shenanigans. That also implies that there are no racist tendencies on the Left.

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...Huh? Are we... talking American right-wing? You know, the one's that are anti-big government and tend towards, get the **** out of my life and leave me in peace. Frankly, if anything, we(Yes, I'm Republican, although I have NOT been happy with their RINO's in recent years. Yes, I don't like the current administration. No, I don't give a **** that he's not white, I LIKED Herman Cain.) are the LAST people interested in taking over the world. We just want people to stop fucking with our buildings and people.

Right-wing (at least in the 19th century sense) is pro-monarchy and/or theocracy, autocracy, etc. Since then the term has been distorted to mean anything that's "to the right" of leftist/ socialist politics. American conservatives (those who are for constitutional government in the spirit of the Enlightenment) are truthfully in the middle. Nazism (National Socialist German Workers' Party; the name itself gives it away as leftist) is only "right-wing" compared to the Soviet system, but the designation has stuck ever since the Soviets labeled them as such.

The point is, racism is not inherently left or right. Black Cubans are not considered kindly by the Castro regime; Pytor Rachkovsky, head of the Russian czarist secret police in the 1900s, helped pen the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a dezinformatsiya campaign against Jewish movements, which were largely pro-socialist at the time.

Weird, I always thought the scale was between control and freedom, at least in my mind. So, in my view, I always viewed extreme left as, well, Nazi's and onward, while I'd view extreme right as libertarians and onward. As for Autocracies and such... well, I guess I just never took them seriously as a legitimate government system. Hmm, learn something new every day.

Enough with the politics already please, you're sending me to sleep! I was good and went to vote in the European election today. That's my fill of the subject for 2014.

Black Fang said:

Racist, I can see. But I don't get what is "right-wing" about him, much less "far-right".

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I used the term "right-wing racist" because it's the term I've most often seen used in forums for that kind of stock racist character. I don't particularly care about a fictional Japanese supervillain's political leanings. If you'd prefer "extreme racist stereotype" or something along those lines, then by all means feel free to mentally correct my line. It's the character's steadfast belief in his prejudices in the face of a reality making a mockery of them and the way it seems to fit into the larger narrative, at least as I see it, that I was intending to convey.