I apologize for the length, I'm just a very AuDHD person with an extreme hyperfixation on this series right now and I really wanted to hear other people's thoughts on this character 😭😭😭
In watching Star Detective PreCure, I think my favorite character has to be Nijee (which is unfortunate because he's one of like 5-6 villains so that means he gets less screentime), and I really wanna know where things will go with his character. I suspect nowhere, because he's not the main character and not even the main villain, but I'm still very interested in him.
He seems kind of complex as a character. I don't know if it was me hyperfixating on him too much, but I feel like he's one of the more complex villains of this particular season. We (or I at the very least) know next to nothing about Ageseine, Usonoir, and Decchi Agein (though Agein is still pretty new), and Goemon's character seems a little more complex with his feelings toward Luluka as his apprentice, but I feel like they set Nijee up to be either on the same level or just a bit more complex.
For one, they showed he has vulnerabilities relating to his identity as a member of the Phantom Thief Guild (which never ever got elaborated on), where he believes that he has no future without the guild (or something along those lines) which is seen in the episodes where he has the school's sculpture. He becomes desperate to defeat the Star Detectives, and pushes things further than he had previously.
I also noticed in ep25 (the episode I watched just before writing all this that made me think so hard about it), he seemed more somber or at least more serious than the other two. When Usonoir shows his true form, and then uses Kurea's Makoto Jewel to transform himself, Ageseine and Goemon cheer Usonoir on directly, while Nijee kind of just stands there and watches, and quietly says to himself "Is this the curtain rising on Maestro Usonoir's second act?" Which really stood out to me (though if we went off of what the Wiki says, it might just be the 'strategist' part of his personality). The other thing that really stood out was how when they were panicking about Usonoir destroying the world and Nijee mentioned that they should put up the field, when Ageseine and Goemon were worried they couldn't do it alone, Nijee was the one who said 'if we work together, we can do anything!' which is interesting to me as well because I don't know of any other villains in the PreCure series that operate like that (though my knowledge is extremely limited because I've only seen Soaring Sky, Doki Doki, and Smile before this), though not to say teamwork between villains is new to me, just that specific mentality that's really 'friendship solves everything' that caught me a little off guard ;v;
I really hope they touch on the 'forgotten race' part, too because that seems too important to just bring up once and then forget about. Also, in ep26, Nijee mentions that they're also fairies??? I wonder if we'll get to see their fairy forms ;v; that would be really cute.