#okay yes i know tatsuya wasn't technically part of the NWO but he was used by them

[queen-of-bel]

You like Togashi? I haven't seen much for NWO characters outside of Kandori, even less than my personal underrated children the Masked Circle (yes that includes Hannya, Hiroki and Yasou) Hiroki is probably my favorite character so I can't judge, put I'm pretty interested in why you like him.

Yes!! Togashi, my beloved/beloathed. I'm so cursed to love the obscure characters that don't even have their own page on the MegaTen wiki...

Anyway, hoo boy. Where to start with Togashi.

I really like that Togashi didn't have any intention of avoiding this topic with him. Katsuya has been on the force for quite some time; Togashi absolutely could have left the police whenever to avoid this conversation, but for some reason, he's stuck around.

Still, I can't praise him too much for his honesty and not running away because he only admitted to this after Shimazu dropped the bomb to Katsuya.

Togashi has been a part of this scheme and in Tatsuzou's pocket for years but only came forward once the world is in danger of being destroyed. It makes you wonder how much guilt he truly did feel over the incident with Katsuya's father. Well, I guess the thing that matters most in the end is that he does own up to what he did.

He tries to play the same game that Tatsuzou does, but fails miserably.

Poor guy. He actually tries to do something right for once and the world swatted him down like a fly. It's this attempt to do the right thing that causes a brief moment of utter hypocrisy that we see mere seconds later.

Like. Dude. You seriously cannot be lecturing Shimazu about being a corrupt officer. Cool that you tried to do the right thing, but that doesn't take away from the fact that you actively destroyed the Suou family and was complicit in Tatsuzou's delusional whatevers for years.

Anyway, Togashi doesn't get much screentime, but from what we do see, this man is a selfish, walking contradiction. He has no intention of running away from what he did to Katsuya's father, but also no intention of stepping up to it either. He berates Shimazu for being corrupt when he's been in that boat for just as long. Just because Togashi doesn't embrace it like Shimazu does, doesn't make it any better. He's presumably lived fairly comfortably in Tatsuzou's pocket until his own life is threatened, at which point he jumps ship in the name of self-preservation. I do think that he genuinely regrets what he's done, but even in his apology and his methods of atonement, we can still clearly see the selfish streaks that have defined him and his behaviors for a long, long time now.