Okita probably wants to fight also for the shinsengumi, we still don't fully know his character and 2. Later in the manga he revealed and started developing his obsession with kill and violence, nothing more, … Okita was one of the few characters in the original koha-ace strips who wasn't a joke character.

Okita def over hyped but i think you might be wrong about rasputin, he’s in the list in my physical copy, are you referring to something else? Okita is literally just a generic japanese swordsman which would be fine if we hadn’t already seen that with sasaki apollo was just another greek hand to hand combatant yet the author made him work. In chiruran itself, umemura's favorite is the protagonist, however, there, okita is the strongest). Firstly, this okita is the author's favorite thing is one thing, him winning is another. We saw this happen …

We saw this happen …