Talk:Yoshimura/@comment-47.18.107.186-20160525035836/@comment-10733658-20160526213640

Nope, the whole Anteiku Raid was kind of a last stand/suicide mission for Yoshimura, Irimi, and Koma. They completely abandoned being merciful to humans for that battle.

I'm guessing you're anime-only, Anon. I would highly suggest picking up the manga, because the anime changed or completely left out an enormous amount of material. There is so much that will make more sense reading it.

But the long and short is Both. The beauty of that finale arc was that it involved pitting groups of people that we had gotten to know at that point. And it really switched between the two sides, portraying both as not exactly good or evil. Everyone had their reasons for fighting, and the tragedy came from how compromise or understanding simply couldn't be reached.