Talk:Miki Kawai/@comment-29908830-20190916180824

Honestly, I think Miki gets way more hate than she deserves. Maybe it's because I've only watched the movie, but Miki is never shown to have completely turned against Shoko the way Naoka did, and thus was mostly blameless; at the most, she was one of the people who noticed the bullying and did nothing about it (granted, being an aware bystander is still pretty bad, but nothing to really punish for). Not to mention she was still acquainted with Shoya in high school and didn't really make any deal about it (good or bad) whatsoever the way Kazuki did.

Miki's problem comes more from having a victim complex. In other words, she's excessively desperate to remain completely innocent in the situation just to keep her image intact that she ends up dragging Shoya down when she tells the group of what Shoya did after Naoka makes it overtly known. Even then though, she did attempt to apologize (albeit with Satoshi's persuasion), after which it was Naoka's fault for remaining antagonistic and Shoya's fault for deciding to close himself off from everyone except Shoko and Yuzuru by telling everyone else off in his self-loathing. And need I remind everyone that she was the most vocal and accepting person after Shoko revealed her and Shoya's suicidal tendencies while bridging back his friendships, even telling Satoshi off in the moment.