I can’t say I’m surprised the role of “absolute villain” has been placed on the only man in this situation by many readers, given that yami is missing, hikari is too wholesome & cute for her cowardly stalling and emotional manipulation disguised as banter to warrant mention and yuu is so vapid that of the few times we’ve seen not heard but seen his ambition take form, one of them was deciding to jerk off with this windows blinds open and the other was to pursue a sexual relationship with a clearly unwell teenage girl he met on the street.
I say this to illustrate that I get why people pin the majority of them blame on him here because 1. It sort of is his fault and 2. It’s pretty much the only way to make him a relevant force in this story that supposedly surrounds him, what I’m perplexed by is why this situation is being treated as if he’s a father of 4 caught cheating on his loving wife of 20 years with a barely legal mistress on their anniversary, and not a emotionally vulnerable, stupid teenager caught kissing a girl he used to be in a relationship with by another girl he’s known since his bed wetting days and hasn’t so much as expressed a word of interest or commitment to despite his feelings, hell even hikari seems to be taking it better than some of the people in these comments and she’s an actual affected party.
I’m not really invested in any discussion of blame until yami pokes her head out of whatever rock she hid under, I just want the observation to be voiced that yuu is a high schooler with two emotionally…dense (as in weight, no in intelligence although yami and hikari especially lack quite a big of that as well) women who are prone to outbursts and skirting the truth to get what they want, it’s only natural he inevitably starts doing the same to grasp an even foothold not realizing his previous straightforwardness was the only thing keeping him not afloat