y'know something i realized doesn't really get talked about much is how kinda fucked up kamukura was. a lot of people (and dr3) kinda boil him down to "he's bored of everything" which. isn't wrong but also not entirely incorrect either? like did everyone just spontaneously forget chapter 0 in dr2?
Sorry i didn't see this sooner but like YES THANK YOU MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!! His boredom is only one facet of his personality and way of thinking and it's a shame that he's boiled down to that so often. I find Chapter 0 so interesting because it's the one time you actually get a proper insight into his thought patterns. While he clearly holds some resentment towards Enoshima and expresses that she used him, he holds even more resentment towards the talent-lacking and says they're the reason the world has come to a standstill. This is likely a reflection on what the scientists and professors at HPA taught him, and could have affected his view on stuff like the reserve course students' uprising. If you think Komaeda's views on talent are screwed up, imagine how elitist Kamukura is about it!
The whole narrative of this violent conflict between the talentless vs the super talented, which was described in chapter 6 of SDR2 as well, is something that could have been used to really further flesh out this world and Kamukura's character. But unfortunately DR3 is DR3 and they did nothing with it. :(
