What are some things you do and don't like about kizuna.
Oh wow that's a fun question!
I think what first brought my attention to Kizuna was the way she acted through the main story of Dra before the actual murder plot because i just found her to be such a funny character, she's like the kind of awful person type character that i've always found really funny to watch in media, a dumb moron that says and does whatever she feels like doing (almost on impulse a lot of the times) without thinking much about it and eventually gets what's coming for her because of it.
This was pretty much all i thought of this character for a good while, even when her FTEs were translated i didn't put that much thought into them back in the day. It was only when i got back into the Another series last year that i really started thinking about Kizuna in a more in-depth manner and i think the turning point that made me absolute adore this character is how aware she is about her actions, how she knows what she does is wrong and expects people to dislike her for it yet sticks to her instincts because that's the only way she was taught how to go by in life, (i made this whole other post about that a little while ago) and after that my liking for this character grew bigger and bigger.
She's a terrible person? Yes, no doubt about it, but a tragic one at that because Kizuna is not an awful person by nature, she was taught to be one. A lonely girl that pushes away the things she genuinely wants to have (real friendships with people who aren't after her solely for her looks) in favor of lying, manipulating and abusing others for her personal gain because that's what will actually get her somewhere according to her own mother and the environment she grew up in. Which becomes even sadder when you remember she never actually got to live beyond those toxic habits since the consequences of her actions brought her to the grave.
Now the second part of this ask is a little harder to me because the few things i dislike about her aren't about Kizuna herself, just Kizuna adjacent things because there's really nothing i dislike about the character herself (obviously not in a "i condone her actions" way) . One of those things is how in her final FTE Yuki apologizes to Kizuna for "being too harsh on her" and like,, no, buddy, you had every right to do that, this girl SUCKS.
And the other, bigger, thing is actually the one thing I dislike about Dra chapter 2 which is how Kizuna is treated in the later half of the trial. From the moment the cast finds out about her real intentions and sees that Akane isn't the actual killer Kizuna pretty much stops being trated as a person who lost her life in a slow painful death and just becomes a piece of a puzzle while the focus is shifted entirely onto the Ayame and Akane part of the tragedy, which i get needed time to shine too, but this always bugged me a little. Yes, Kizuna is the antagonist here, but she was still the victim of the case and as much as i adore Ayame Linuj's insistance in sidelining the horror of Kizuna's death in favor of painting her in a good light, even going as far as calling her "a saint" in her character profile, just rubs me the wrong way.
