thinking about kanjuros character falling apart at the end, but on purpose
- he reports kin'emons interpretation of the note to orochi at first, so the beast pirates dont know about the forces amassing at the wharf. then they go to the port and he kidnaps momo and reveals his traitorhood and runs away, talking mad shit all the way. but then he lets momonosuke give his huge important speech and just silently looks away and lets him finish, even though he can easily silence him.
- then he goes through onigashima and starts beating the shit out of beast pirates everywhere he goes, claiming that he's
lost and doesn't know where to go. even though he can scout with paintings or just explain it to the first beast pirate he sees and they'll go oh. you're holding momonosuke there in chains, orochi wanted that kid. i see.
- then he tells orochi he failed to stop them and they could still be alive, finally, after he physically gets there, and blames it on kin'emon being unnaturally thorough. even though he can send painting bird messages at any time.
- then they ignore him and he leaves, and goes directly to the rear entrance of onigashima, where he gets a bunch of beast pirate jobbers and paints some headless warriors to fight the scabbards, because he
somehow knows they're going to be exactly there and knows how to navigate onigashima now.
- then he loses the fight as kaido is broadcasting the new onigashima announcement project across the island. everyone thinks he's dead. one of the lines (that i now realize is being broadcast everywhere and heard by every character) is "The concerns of the Kozuki clan and Kurozumi clan mean nothing to us."
- Then he shows back up, alive, as Oden and maybe Toki.
kanjuro is in full ad lib mode. he's not a character whos motivations make sense and he's not consistent anymore, because he has no script. he's just trying to find out how to end his story because he thought he was going to have an epic and poetic death and it got completely botched. his "ending" went from dying with his friends as a traitor they never found out, to standing in a big party next to orochi and then they completely ignore him after he gives up momo because he's no longer important. that's not a damn ending lol. Dying to the scabbards for Kozuki when the Kozuki/Kurozumi rivalry doesnt even mean anything to Kaido, that's not a damn ending!
Kanjuro is a man who has "always been searching for a place to bury his bones" and his life might not have been consistent...
Kanjuro is not making it out of this arc alive and when/how he chooses to die it will be significant. Kanjuro may not be "redeemed" or given a good guy face turn, but he's a wildcard and even with the spoilers its not clear he was trying to hurt the scabbards. For all I can tell he leaves the room with them.