The topics about anime and manga are tend to be those of the protagonist side and heroes, but the “bright side” can shine because “dark side” exists. The 13th article of “The Lives of Villain Character ~What are Their Beliefs~?” picks up Kenneth from “Mobile Suit Gunam Hathaway”. 【WARNING】There is a spoiler of “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway”. Good enemies sympathize with the opponents while confronting them. Ongoing popular animation movie “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway”’s protagonist Hathaway Noa (Mafty Navue Erin) and Colonel Kenneth Sleg are the rivals, but also have a good friendship. “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway” revolves around Hathaway, who was connected to the protagonist Amuro and Char from “Mobile Suit Gundam” (also known as 1st Gundam), and is set in the world after Space Era. Hathaway becomes adult after getting involved in battles in “Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack”, and he fights by taking in the will of Amuro and Char. The rival is called Kenneth from the Earth Federation Force. He confronts with Hathaway throughout the movie, but he understands Hathaway more than any other character. Although their positions are different, both characters agree and rage against world’s corruption, and they even begin to feel friendship. Kenneth is the “mature” enemy of the protagonist who understands to compromise and the dirty part of the world. Because he is “mature”, he fulfills his "responsibility". ■A story begins with the bitter enemies in the same boat A story of “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway” begins inside the space shuttle from the moon to the Earth. Hathaway and Kenneth are in the same spaceship, which eventually gets hijacked, but defeat the hijackers together without knowing about each other’s identity. They are similar in the way that they take leadership when facing problems and they both have ability and passion to accomplish it. It is inevitable that the story begins with the bitter enemies in the same boat. Their rivalry is not based on difference in their beliefs or hatred, but their different position of a terrorist and the Earth Federation Force. They can be the good friends, if they are released from the regular positions that they are in as “the passengers”. Hathaway is the leader of the terrorist group “Mafty”, which is the rebel group against the corrupted Earth Federation Force. While there are scenes that the ordinary citizens are involved in the activity of Mafty, the group gains support from the citizens as well. Kenneth partly agrees with Mafty’s belief. He self-depreciates saying that as he cannot live freely due to strains from the community’s rule, he stays in the Earth Federation Force. “He works as an army because it is mature to live with restrains of a community, and he cannot runaway from it. ‘If I could live freely, I would become the member of Mafty’” (Quoted from the novel “Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway the Flash Vol. 1” Page 43) He thinks so inside his head. Hathaway for him is a target of admire, who can live and act freely without any limitations. He, who lives with limitations while partly giving up, is a realistic figure for the audience, even though he sometimes play too much with girls. He isn’t “pure” enough that he cannot runaway from the group, although he is already too tired of looking at corrupted organization. Kenneth is not only a nice man. He does not hesitate to take a custody to accomplish his mission and is not merciful that he uses violence to gain information that he needs. This implicates that his actions are taken to reduce the risk of losing his men’s lives by raising the percentage of success for a mission. In other words, such actions are taken because he fully understands "responsibility" as a commander. His “sense of responsibility” is the reason why he is suitable as the rival of the protagonist, Hathaway. ■Kenneth is proud of Hathaway as a friend Hathaway is a son of Bright Noa, the soldier of the Earth Federation Force appeared since “Mobile Suit Gundam” (1st Gundam). Bright does not know that his son is the leader of anti-Federation organization. When Hathawy is captured, Kenneth learns that for some reason Bright is assigned in his position and Kenneth himself volunteers to terminate Hathaway’s life as a punishment. “A smarter friend is a treasure that a man can show off. Kenneth, begins to feel such a complex feeling toward Hathaway.” (Quoted from the novel “Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash Vol. 2” Page 33) The death penalty of Hathaway is painful to Kenneth than anyone else, but the innocent Hathaway could be only stopped by ending his life. He also understands it is “his responsibility” as an adult to bring death to him. After accomplishing his mission and being released from his burden, Kenneth implicates that he will inherit Hathaway’s wish. The fate of Hathaway and Kenneth is the respresenation of unreasonableness of the Space Era. World is cruel, but they have no other choice to keep living. The enemy will continue his rival’s life. Because rivals are connected in some part.

* There will be spoilers in the main part of "FGO", so please be careful if you want to avoid spoilers. In anime and manga, characters' popularity and topics tend to be biased toward the main character side and heroes. However, "light" looks bright and shining only because "shadow" exists. The 14th part of "Villians Retsuden: What is Their Aesthetics?", which focuses on enemy characters, approaches the charm of Solomon, King of Magic, from "Fate / Grand Order". The movie adaptation of the smartphone RPG game "Fate / Grand Order (FGO)", "Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon" has been released on July 30. "FGO" is an app game with a huge amount of text, and the anime adaptation is produced by picking up popular stories from all episodes. This "Solomon" depicts the final boss in the final battle of the first part. "FGO" is a story of reviving human history after being burnt. The final boss, Solomon, King of Magic, is a person who re-questions the way humans and human history should be. He can be called the fully complete character, who perfectly shows if humans are worth living, and if so, why they are worth living. Here, let's briefly summarize the footsteps of the main character and Solomon so that even those who have not played the game will understand. Finis Chaldea, a human resources continuity guarantee agency that aims to perpetuate the history of humankind, finds out that people will be extinct in 2016 for some reason. The cause is the seven Holy Grail sent by the King of Magic Solomon in the past. By using the Holy Grail and sending them to a turning point of human history, Solomon plans to create a singularity that disturbs human history to change all human history. The protagonist makes a ray shift in the past to regain history as it is and challenges the battle to collect the Holy Grail with many spirits. And the hero who finished collecting the seven Holy Grail will finally confront Solomon, at The Grand Time Temple, which is the home of Solomon. From here on, spoilers for the main part of "FGO" start, so please be careful if you want to avoid spoilers. Solomon possesses abilities of clairvoyance. It allows him to see into every past and future. With the abilities, he witnessed all tragedies and stupid despairs of human history. However, it is said that Solomon himself did not have human sensibility because he was a creature who was appointed as a king from the time he was born. If he actually is such an existence, he cannot fall into despair no matter what he sees. The true identity of Solomon, King of Magic, is Goetia, King of Demon Gods who is controlling 72 demons. Goetia calls himself "Solomon's alter ego", with who he shared his consciousness with the clairvoyant, so he saw the past and future of humankind. And although Solomon has no human heart, he is different. Overwhelmed by the tragedy and despair of human history, he mourned and started to think that people are imperfect and could never overcome their stupid acts, and decided to rebuild the planet of mankind. Goetia's purpose is not to eliminate humankind. Its purpose is to recreate the entire history of mankind and create a world without the concept of death. It's a very grand plan and the motives are easy to understand. In short, he came up with the idea that "people are stupid." If you can't overcome the stupidity through reviewing everything from the past to the future, you have to recreate everything from scratch. The "Fate" series is based on the idea of summoning and using heroes of past as your heroes. There are various reasons why someone is called a hero, but it is not uncommon for a hero to have a plethora of blood behind his success. Charlie Chaplin said in the movie "Monsieur Verdoux", "If you kill one, you're a murderer, if you kill a million, you're a hero.", and there are many of the heroes in history who are certainly those who were active on the battlefield. It seems that Goetia has a grudge against those who have suffered behind the success of such heroes' actions. The main character of "FGO" summons and fights with the hero, which is why he deserves to be the last enemy of this story. The story is questioning, are heroes really valuable? and doesn't the horrifying tragedy of human history will never disappear because of that? Saying that one hero costs the lives of one million people is certainly pushes the inequality of life. The new world that Goetia is trying to create is a world without this inequality. The story of "FGO" has a structure in which the purpose is to lead and destroy the spirit, which is exactly the product of inequality (from Goetia's point of view). So how can we affirm this world with heroes and so many tragedies? This is the question of this battle. True Solomon, who confronts Goetia, tells him: "Life has the end. Life is a pilgrimage that accumulates suffering. But it is not a story of death and severance. It is a thing that confronts death and severance with a limited life. It is a thing that repeats farewell and encounters while knowing the end. A brilliant, twinkling, momentary journey. This is called the story of love and hope. " Goetia says that human life without a way to avoid death is scary at all costs, but Solomon says that human life is beautiful because it has the end. The last thing that beats Goetia is the hero's willingness to live his finite life to the fullest, the desire to "just live for himself." It is said that because the genre d'Arc is a spirit of soul, he is trapped in his greed and cannot bend his belief. Then, Goetia himself awakens to that desire and changes from " King of Demon Gods" to "Human King Goetia". At that point, he knew that his life was running out and he couldn't help at all. Nevertheless, he challenges the hero to the final game. The game has no rational meaning. It is a desire to fight with nothing but a will. The appearance of Goetia at this time is beautiful. It is exactly what Solomon said, "A moment of a blinking star." And the beauty of that moment is completed by being defeated by the main character. Human history is a series of such finite tragedy and beauty of life. Goetia proved it by being defeated by the main character. It's a wonderful way to draw a curtain. "Villians Retsuden: What is Their Aesthetics?" Click here for past articles