Can we just appreciate that Kizashi is being set up for a redemption.
Look, I don't think he's going to just run around and be fine and dandy, but the concept of someone we have been primed to hate for their actions and the threat they have posed to the most wholesome character in the series being directed and turned around is fascinating.
Already we have learned that Kizashi's world view is built off of a flawed bedrock, one reinforced over and over by the reversal majik and presumably the other 7 stars.
They are not an evil majik. They are just misguided.
Their idea of friendship is so warped and twisted because others have let it fester inside them, have even encouraged the toxic behaviour and justification. Kizashi has even questioned ther own philosophy before and told by Reverser to just push through it.
Kizashi help back against Chro, it's obvious in how they keep stopping, keep hesitating to ask why? Why push yourself, why make yourself weaker, why put yourself on the same level as them.
It works because we can see the cracks. We can see that Kizashi only believes these things about humans, about weakness, about friendship, because nothing has even challenged those ideals before.
So when Chro looks at Kizashi and doesn't see the monster who tried to kill his wife and unborn child, but instead a misguided friend he regrets not trying to help more, it just hits so goddamn hard.
I don't think Kizashi's redemption is going to be perfect, I don't expect everyone to come around to Kizashi immediately or easily in story or in the fandom, but it's just so... idk. Something about that page with Chro telling Kizashi it's okay to make friends with the weak tugged on my heart strings way more than I thought it would.
I'm looking forward to whatever Nishi has in store for Kizashi, and I hope no matter how flawed and jagged their path to redemption is, it can say something powerful about how we think of, and treat those with hateful or selfish world views, because sometimes, just sometimes, they've never been given the chance to believe in something different.
