Talk:Kamijou Touma/@comment-125.60.240.201-20140807094004/@comment-5230978-20140807231800

What did you expect? Touma quitting to save people and becoming a bastard plotter/killer? Drastic changes like Heel-Face Turn and Face-Heel Turn are not the only types of character development. Touma may look the same to you but he is definitely not. Touma is not a wholly good person and he is not perfect, but he is an ambiguous individual with hidden sides. He is, in a word, human. And this humanity became even more visible during NT.

After his failures in Hawaii and Baggage City he stopped trusting the people he meets, showing a more pessimistic ans suspicious side of him. He later overcame this, but it didn’t was unable to make him develop a slightly darker personality, as proved by him risking Yakumi’s life to save Rensa. of course he strongly believed that she would have found a way to save Yakumi on her own, but he wouldn’t have endangered others lives like that before. Another thing he never did was fully and openly asking for others’ help like in NT8. In NT9 his pessimistic side reached its peak showing how much he placed him and his life under others, even willing to commit suicide. Then during his conversation with the Will he complains about his condition showing all his pain, but after that he decided to make save himself for very the first time, which is undeniably the greatest change in Touma’s personality as he always fought only for others’ sake. Willing to sacrifice every happiness but his, he finally showed his selfish side, though in the end he still had hesitation in his heart because he also wanted to protect the Omega world (another proof of his human ambiguity). And even during NT 10 he still had doubts, the greatest after Othinus' apparent death, when he wondered for the first time about what really means to save someone, even after he saved the World more than once.

This was just a summary, but the point is these aren’t things Touma would have done before NT. Saying that Touma never changes is denying what essentially is the main purpose and achievement of the Gremlin saga: to further character develop Touma, making him even more human than before.