Dude is literally a mass murderer and horrifically killed parents of, not 1, but 2 of your friends/teammates as they fucking watched.
But because he's an edgy anime pretty boi, that makes him a "complicated, flawed character who just needs wuve uwu".
He basically made Haru's father's brain explode on live television, crying blood in agony, as his daughter was watching. (Granted, dude was kind of a dick, but he didn't deserve what he got and Haru most certainly did not deserve to witness it.)
And even more unforgivable imo: Not only did he make Futaba's mom commit suicide in front of her by jumping in front of a car, he took the extra step of making her say that she never loved Futaba and that this was her fault for no other reason than to traumatize her further. Which it did, and almost psychologically destroyed her for life, as it would for probably anybody.
If there was any justice, his canon death would've just been Futaba and Haru curb-stomping him to death.
And I really fuckin' hate how Royal's ending gives some sort of implication that someway, somehow he's still alive: Fuck. That.
At least in Vanilla he was still dead as shit at the end.
Tl;dr, My final opinion on Akechi: :rip-bozo:
the fandom fucking loves him of course. as someone who occasionally reads fanfiction, the fact that 90% of the stuff on ao3 is about him being angsty really pisses me off. not only is he a serial killer, he's the servant of a fascist politician who he supports at every step of the way because... (?????) if you wanted revenge and you really can't kill him, do the killings in a way that implicate him and try to tank his approval dumbass!
In fairness, he wants Shido to reach the Sun and then have his fall. Of course, it's dumb, but the game acknowledges how much of a short-sighted dipshit Akechi is when it's revealed he got outplayed by Shido himself.
that's true, but it doesn't make me sympathetic. if someone has an admirable goal and goes about it in the worst possible way thats not sympathetic unless you really put in the work to make it. and atlus just didn't do the work