Talk:Yoshimura/@comment-31921045-20170505015637/@comment-25047329-20170505023702

I kind of took it that he, Irimi, and Koma were also playing the distraction card. On top of wanting to atone for their sins, they wanted the "younger generation" plus Yomo to be spared, so they appeared all at once to force the CCG to focus most of their big guns around Anteiku. Otherwise the CCG's attention and forces would have been more spread out.

Narratively, Yoshimura's actions making things worse or not improving anything was kind of the point with the first series being a tragedy and all. Whether or not it was executed well I guess there's room for debate. But often times tragedy is brought on by ones hamartia, so perhaps that was his purpose in the Anteiku raid. While he tries, Yoshimura is a flawed individual and the raid was his past biting him in the ass. I'm pretty sure that's why he decided to stay and fight even though he knew it would be meaningless; he knew that what was coming partially stemmed from his mistakes and he wanted to repent. He probably could have done more for ghoul-kind like expose V and try to help more ghouls lead better lives, but I think that also comes from his hamartia. He tends to runaway from or take a passive stance on his problems and doesn't become active until the last minute. It's one of the reasons Eto's pissed at him.

TL;DR being inactive until shit hits the fan is Yoshimura's fatal flaw as a character. He probably could have done more - investigate like Ukina, fight like Eto, but he wanted a relatively peaceful life while planting the seeds of change in others but leaving them to act (Kaneki, Touka, Yomo, etc).