No one with half a brain would ever call Kimetsu original, but I do appreciate that it has an outright, unambiguous villain
Villains with noble intentions or tragic backstories aren't inherently bad, but there have been so many shitty half assed redemption stories for big bads in battle manga that it's nice to see one where the bad guy is just a purely selfish sociopath from start to finish, without quite going all the way into super edgelord sadist territory
I think maybe the answer to all the people going "What's so special about Kimetsu?" is simply that it doesn't fuck around. With the exception of Zenitsu, anyway.
Are you actually trying to convince me that "evil guy who's evil" is somehow an accomplishment?
Luke Sanders
I also like Muzan because of the fact that he actually reaped a permanent toll on the cast. He was killing motherfuckers left and right although they all got reincarnated anyway.
James Cruz
There have been plenty of comically evil characters in the past kimetsu isn’t special. 03 FMA’s main villain literally does everything she does because she just wants to live forever
Carson Howard
>make the villain the least memorable character of the enemy faction
What did kny mean by this?
Cooper Lee
Why praise literally the weakest part of KnY? God, that final boss fight was embarassing
Cameron Anderson
I remember Muzan better than fucking Hantengu or the Hand Demon.
Evan Russell
yeah but she also had a melodramatic backstory that could be construed as motivation for being an asshole
FMA03 was as much of a soap opera at the time as Naruto ended up being
Sebastian Jenkins
>MC is 4th place Can someone explain me this madness?
Even Muzan will eventually be reincarnated. Reincarnation is a bad thing, you want out of the cycle.
Parker Martin
Reincarnated as the lowest animal
Gabriel Foster
Ok, buddher.
Samuel Morris
Main characters often end up being milquetoast middle of the road types with few distinguishing features, in the hopes that the audience will project themselves onto them, with the desired effect being deeper emotional investment
Japanese polls in particular are retarded because you either get to vote multiple times (and if the character has a strong fujo fanbase they coordinate better to vote) or get a chance to vote for every manga volume you buy only (like that bnha poll). In that case is more of a trick to get you to buy lots of copies of the same volume.
Hudson Richardson
that sounds like a good way to sell extra copies of your magazine
dude by that logic the guy from fucking Appare Ranman was a good villain.
Nathan Anderson
There are degrees of good
A good complex villain is better than a good simple villain, which is better than a bad complex villain
Gavin Cook
I have no clue what the fuck you've been watching if you think that's somehow unusual.
Jackson Robinson
There have been so many shitty lame one dimensional villains that it's nice to see villains with noble with intentions
Levi Harris
You can write a good villain who has noble intentions, and you can write a good villain who is unambiguously evil. There are compelling characters with complex characterizations just as there are compelling characters with simple characterizations. Being morally ambiguous or outright evil has nothing to do with how well-written an antagonist is Those are just different types. Compelling antagonists are ones who effectively challenge the protagonist's strengths and ideals or can represent some sort of antithesis to the themes of the story.
I liked him too. Simple villain but with cool powers (yeah, I'm one of the flew who enjoyed the final battle, maibe because I read it once the Manga ended instead that weekly like the other, which is a big pacing issues as seen with OP during dress rosa, WCI and wano). Also, I thing that I appreciated is that Muzan, aside from his rigenerative powers and the tendrils, he was grounded power wise and never pulled "KEIKAKU-dori" or 9000 different power ups like usually happens during a final battle >yes, kishimoto and kubo, I'm starring at you two.
Jonathan Collins
Not at all. He purposely killed and ruined thousand of lives for like 1000 years, a level of evil that even Buddha can forgive, so he is either going to spend the next 100000 years in hell, reincarnated into a worm or even completely destroyed by existence
Blake Walker
Douma is the psycho sociopath sadistic maniac and evil for the sake of being evil Muzan isn't that bad, he even has a wife and a daughter.. all he wanted is to live normally in the daylight
Matthew Thompson
>Villains with noble intentions or tragic backstories But the author DID try to give Muzan a tragic backstory. And failed.
Aiden Gonzalez
>Zenitsu Discount Armin?
Jonathan Gray
Nope, the author wanted to show how pathetic he was. In fact neither tanjiro showed a bit of compassion on him
I feel like that's too many labels for Douma, he's unfeeling, but I don't think he genuinely understands the difference between good or evil enough to intentionally be evil for the sake of evil >Muzan isn't that bad, he even has a wife and a daughter Muzan killed that woman's husband to get close to her and marry her for her family's resources, that's not his actual daughter and he simply abandons them when discovered by Tanjiro
Nathaniel Morgan
He's kinda gay and boring? What I want to know is how boring as fuck Giyu AND Tanjiro beat out Inosuke. The more I look at those poll results the more it looks like it got fujo'd hard, especially given the lifeless prop that was Nezuko beat out Mitsuri.
Evan Reed
They have literally nothing in common beside being both blondes
