Re-imagining Villains
I don’t know if there’s a name for it, but one of my favorite tropes in fiction is when someone who’s the villain either works with the “good guy” for reasons, or maybe he’s not really such a “villain” after all. A good example of that would be Trent from “A Spell for Chameleon”, the first book in the (somehow STILL going) “Xanth” series. In that case, Trent really isn’t evil, he just wants to take over Xanth, because the old king was doing a shitty job of it. The point is, if you’re gonna “re-imagine villains” they have to have some sort of redeeming qualities, and from what I’ve seen so far, none of Tatsuya’s “re-imagined villains” even come close to filling that requirement. They’re not like the Joker in Batman lore, where he said himself, something to the effect of, he’s a pyscho criminal, but he’s an American, so therefore he hates Nazis, lol