Did anyone else think that when we got this closeup, the Azure King really looked like Kunikida. Same eye color and shape, same eyebrow color and shape, and the same hair color.


That's because he's meant to represent what Kunikida's ideal justice could morph into if he went too far, as Dazai said at the end. The Azure King's girlfriend even told Kunikida that he reminded her of the Azure King. They were alike in terms of their looks and their ideals. A doppelganger relationship, it's used a lot in film and television to symbolise what a character would be like if they were twisted by their ideals.