Talk:Re: Chapter 49/@comment-26940038-20151017183928/@comment-10733658-20151017190433

I think one reason is because of the Sympathetic POV going on right now. The audience has been presented with a lot more that we can empathize with in terms of the Tsukiyama group, as opposed to the CCG.

While they've done wrong in the past, overall their motivations have been ones that we can understand and sympathize with. They did things to protect or care for their loved ones, and have been consistently throughout this entire arc presented as Loyal, Caring, and Self-Sacrificing. There's been a strong focus on them showing positive traits.

In contrast, we've had a lot of negative aspects with the CCG especially with folks like Ihei and Kijima. Both were motivated primarily by selfish reasons or by plain old Sadism. Neither showed much compassion or concern for others, both committed horrible acts on screen for no reason other than their own enjoyment, and are used to show the inhuman side of the CCG. They didn't have a lot of traits that people are going to empathize with, or relate to.

And really, this time both were victims of not only their own arrogance but of the greater commitment/teamwork of their opponents. Matsumae and Mairo gave everything, in Mairo's cause his own life to ensure things worked out. For Ihei and Kijima, it was a game and neither did anything to support or help anyone else. They fought alone, and Kijima in particular didn't seem to actually care about Ihei's death. Both made fatal mistakes, and didn't take their opponents seriously.