#also I should've included Kaito

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Ohedo Julia Night

Also known as Miku wearing the trans flag color.

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Hot take: I wish the villains in Soul of Yokai had more of a point

It would've been way more nuanced than just "Yokai think humans bad and they're wrong".

Spoilers ahead

Considering the main theme of the VN is about prejudice and racism, I think there were fumbles in the narrative to make humans completely innocent (from what we've seen).

The idea that Yokai just hate humans with little-to-no reason is sort of odd. We're given very little explanation. Onimaru made one comment that they took over their resources but that's vague and opens up questions that never get answered. And Nami's betrayal could've fed into the hate but I doubt that she was the original reason Yokai hate humans. (If Sakuya was a well-known figure that news would've spread like wildfire, that is).

I would've liked the idea that humans actually did do something against the Yokai. We all know how much human in real life are racist and prejudiced. It's not hard to believe that humans wouldn't have treated Yokai different when they tried to make contact with humans.

I imagine that it happened like centuries ago, around the time where Japan was isolating itself from the rest of the world. So when the Yokai made contact with humans through the Cave of Time, they were met with hate and fear and told to go back to where they came from (some Yokai probably got hurt or died). This, of course, leads to the Yokai hating humans.

However, years have passed since and humans are more tolerant (not completely since there are racist people out there). But their actions have not been forgotten (likely because the Yokai who were there are still alive).

See how this gives a reasonable perspective to why the Yokai don't like the humans? It would've made their hate more nuanced, especially because the protagonist isn't a Yokai. It gives more of the Yokai perspective and why they're so unwilling to accept them. I feel like it's easier to just write racism and prejudice concerning villains and make them hate them for the sake of hating them than just making a nuanced and more grey angle to their hate. It's just boring to write in this prejudice and never really explain it nor have any Yokai question why they're hating humans if there's very little reason.

And I'm going to say it, but I think Nami also should've played a part in this. I feel like season 2 just wiped out any aspect that humans can be bad and left the story without nuance. Sure, there's Kaito but only Hayato meets him who's half human and Kaito is never really known by the other cast (with the exception of Tamen).

I think having a genuinely bad human should exist in Soul of Yokai. Humans are shitty. Humans even treat other humans like shit. I think Nami would've been proof that not all humans are good and shown just as much Sakuya, Onimaru and Hebionna are awful, there are humans who are the same. And I think it would've served a better arc for Sakuya to realise that not all humans will accept him/treat him nicely but that's no reason to wipe out all of them, including the ones who will accept and love him and to not let one bad human ruin the rest of them for him.

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If you're still doing the sending in of opinions, we should've had another zexal character in arc-v. I liked seeing Kaito as much as the next guy but I feel we missed the opportunity to send in one of the others. Pardon my use of the English names- grew up on the English dub and forgot the Japanese names- but I feel it would have been cool to include Cathy or even one of the Arclights. Or they add in Haruto as an actual character instead of someone shoved to the side- seeing how the others interact with Haruto would've been cool

No worries, bud, I use dub names out of love and spite.

Idk if you saw my reply on the first Arc-V opinion, but again dead horse. (Send me something a bit more interesting, or relatviely new take. Conspiracy theories, lol.) Arc-V's plot was too big for the runtime, and they spent way too long on the Synchro Dimension.

But still, the Xyz Dimension arc was kinda written tightly, idk how you'd add in another character without diverging from the main plot—Kite already Shay, Yūto, and Lulu as their fiend, so they all personal stakes fighting each other. Add Cathy to do what? As much as I love her, she's a gimmick character. The Arclights? Their whole thing took, like, a whole arc or two in the original series, Arc-V don't got time for that, lol.

I will say that it would've been nice for them to show Hart at least once (and also Faker), but would it really add anything too? Honestly, with how they handled legacy characters—erasing their original histories, not including other characters and thus erasing their bonds (this is really important here, especially with the 5D's legacy characters which makes me Big Sad™)—maybe it's better they didn't show him, kek.

At least we got the Tyler sisters. 😩

I'm bored, send me your YGO opinions(s) and let me judge you!