User blog comment:S3r0-Ph1i/What constitutes a villain?/@comment-43971605-20191015234326/@comment-36009152-20191018212112

Such a welcome staunch defence of Mika is particularly needed! It’s quite chilling how the victors (say if Kureto won the war and was writing history to depict events) can completely shape who is a villain or not. Humans could easily insist that Mika is a villain based solely on him being a vampire completely blind to his circumstances, which is truly awful.

Even with more perspectives he is exactly right to not exactly be on majorly friendly terms with Guren. Likely aware of his background, seeing first hand what he has done, even best friend Shinya pointed his gun at Guren, absolutely sensible to be wary of him!

Same with being guarded around Shinoa squad, sure they be nice but their demons are another matter. Dangerous cursed gear for Mika, and possible humans who can become possessed and do a repeat of Guren, absolutely Mika should be cautious.

It’s great that Mika leaves nothing to chance, it's brilliant risk minimisation, having an overhead on things, those are very clever survival instincts and they have and will serve him and those close to him well.

The comment was lovely and insightful! It’s all true and you covered it succinctly, Mika’s a brave and noble hero if anything, no one in the series shows more care to someone than Mika does to Yu and that’s what the ruined world they are in needs.