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For me personally, it wasn’t about Rika’s “innocence.”
It’s just that the version where Rika is pure evil doesn’t add anything to the sheer stupidity of what’s happening.
All her so-called “brilliant” villainous intellect, her efforts and painstaking attempts to hide her actions-what did it ultimately lead to in Rika Miyase’s life?
Despite, as the author hints, her extraordinary charisma and her ability to predict and manipulate, everything she had achieved by the age of 30 comes down to a life constantly on the run from the consequences of her own actions.
She’s a slut-a housewife who deluded herself into thinking she’s a manipulator. She has money, but she can’t use it openly.
With all her experience, she’s forced to engage, essentially, in petty “crimes.”
She preys on the weak and drags them into lewd activities for relatively minor gain, especially considering that her past may have been far more criminal, and revealing it to the authorities could land her in prison.
By taking on new projects in the PTA, she immediately compromises herself, openly interacting and participating in adultery.
Rika Miyase is incapable of choosing her subordinates; she only sees weakness and exploits it the way school kids do.
She hasn’t found her place in this world. Even if the Terauchi story hadn’t happened, her past would have eventually caught up with the Yamada family.
Instead of blinding her husband’s vigilance, she lost control over him, forcing him to dig into her past with her own hands, without giving Sousuke even a sweet lie.
And after that, once again, she shifted the burden of solving a problem-created by herself during the SD card incident-onto the shoulders of another “subordinate,” who now also knows about her secret identity.
I agree with the theories about Rika’s mental issues mentioned earlier, but that doesn’t make the story more dramatic for me personally.
And I understand that the author will ultimately frame it as a clash of worldviews.
Rika doesn’t believe in feelings; she’s a psychopath who doesn’t empathize and cannot love.
Sousuke represents the path of mercy and humanity.
Rika Miyase is a pathetic human being and a villain.
Her “evil” is the result of everyone else’s inaction; she doesn’t face an equal opponent simply because the author didn’t introduce a sufficiently “adult” adversary in this story.
She doesn’t build brilliant schemes or demonstrate her “power”-she doesn’t need to; the whole world exists for this ridiculous farce.
And once again, the author will destroy evil through the combined efforts of all the victims.
In MITA’s stories, “Kira” has no opponent on L’s level; she’s just a drifting boat in a sea of filth, picking up along the way everyone who suffers misfortune.
How would her face look in the finale? We see it in the scandal in Neon Tokyo-but what does the fall of another “maniac” and emotionless sadist give us?
In essence, this is a lazy way of creating a villain.
For me, the story would have been dramatic if Rika Miyase had been a fully emotional human being—that would have been truly realistic.
Reality is far worse. The filth happening right now in the real world is done by perfectly “healthy” people, and their motives are far more ambiguous, with far more complex backstories.
I’m not disappointed because Rika didn’t turn out to be a fallen woman-I’m disappointed because MITA took the basic template of a Maniac-a killer and a psychopath from any other work, whether a movie or manga-and replaced “murder” with adultery and sexual crimes.
The most obvious option turned out to be true. I had hoped for something unusual-but in the end, I got nothing.
Are the stories and characters realistic on their own? Yes.
Could this happen in real life? I highly doubt it, but that doesn’t really matter.
Once again, fan theories are more interesting than the work itself. Unfortunately, that’s life.
It’s something you just have to accept.
