User blog comment:Red Chevalier/Pure Evil Proposal: Masamune Dan/@comment-5032898-20190920033041

Yes. He stated that his only regret was the birth of Kuroto, which completely missed the point to what he had done in Ex-Aid (since his true sin was using his son and anyone else uncaringly for his own gain, as well as destroying Cronus Gashat to prevent all victims from coming back to life). His character in Another Ending can NOT justify or redeem his actions from the TV series.

His action of stopping Kuroto is actually pragmatic and hypocritical, as we can see in Another Ending, defeating Kuroto's zombie clones does revive the victims back to life, including Taiga's best friend whose death scene was included in Snipe spin-off. As a result, putting his God Complex and the panic and harm it caused aside, Kuroto actually tries to resolve everything he had started, even though it was out of some sort of condescending compassion.

Anyway, Masamune only considered Kuroto to be the worst, without admitting himself was the one who started the whole thing ever since the beginning.

(NOVEL'S SPOILERS AHEAD) The novel of ~ Mighty Novel X ~ further cemented Masamune's so-called mitigating factor as a NON-redeeming quality, that even before the death of his wife, Masamune blackmailed Kiyonaga Hojo (Emu's father who accidentally created Bugster Virus) into assisting him to create Kamen Rider Chronicles when they became working partners supposed to combact against Bugsters.

In a nutshell, I vote yes.