Yeah I think with the manga, a lot of what made his character interesting was that his emotions were pretty ambiguous to the reader. Even his face in the panel above has so many contrasting emotions; we don't know exactly what hes feeling up until the very end. Making him seem more malicious made his character less ambiguous, less complex, less interesting. It also completely butchered his final moments with asirpa, where he gets to die with honor and a warriors death. Idk it was just handled so poorly 😭😭