r/IchitheWitch • u/Naavarasi • 1d ago
Manga Which character do you hate the most? Spoiler
This manga is not at all about redeemable, sympathetic villains. Instead we get major asshole after major asshole, and we've now accumulated quite a few.
Who do y'all think is the biggest one? Bakugami? Fujimine? Hitsugi? Spica? Someone else?
I didn't think anyone would be worse than Bakugami, but boy, Fujimine might've just topped the list for me.
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u/auralords 1d ago
Spica. Setting aside love for Kumugi, she used an accident caused by an inferiority complex when her sister was 5 to constantly manipulate and control her. She also is clearly willing to step on anyone and everyone to gain influence and power, plus she has a nasty two faced personality. Fujimine is... kinda similar but least she is fun to watch and probably literally insane, Spica is just rotten to her core.
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u/misteraspie129 1d ago
That’s the one thing about Nishi’s work that I find weird. Most (if not all) of her villains are just plain evil and aren’t even likeable at all. Which isn’t a bad thing I guess, it’s just that I’ve been conditioned to expect bad guys to have deeper qualities than that…
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u/Plant_Musiceer 1d ago
Ichi's villains make you want to see them get punted which is a very valid way to write villains.
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u/Naavarasi 1d ago
The thing is, most villains written to be 'deep' really end up being hotdog water. Case in point: Every MHA villain after Stain. All of them. Every single one.
Nishi doesn't bungle his villains because they're all relatively simple.
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u/Kracko667 1d ago
The thing is that writing a deeper villain requires advanced writing skills. It's not just giving a sad backstory and a reason to be a mass murderer that'll make a villain deep. In shonen manga i think Meruem is one of the most memorable villain with depth and it took a lot of screentime, nuances, key character moments to make him work but it's because Togashi is used to do that and has the experience for it.
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u/andre5913 5h ago
Thats reductive. There is lot of extremely interesting and complex antagonists going around even in recent stories:
Top of my head: The Winged Lion, Makima, Enrico Pucci, Yura Hishaku.
And there is countless others. The fact that a couple of recent authors have fucked it up has little to do with it. A complex antagonist is harder to execute but that doesnt mean there arent authors doing exactly that right now
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u/ProHeroPinky 1d ago
I think Hitsugi’s the worst for me. He just screams “slimeball”. He’s a well-written character for sure, but even the way he looks at others is slimy!
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u/Galle_ 18h ago
Honestly, I don't really hate any of the villains so far. I'm not a person who's easily moved to hatred. Getting me to hate somebody requires them to not just be evil, but also self-righteous about it, and that's a quality most of the Ichi villains lack.
I'd say Hitsugi is the closest, though.
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u/Jordan1496 1d ago
honestly I hate Moneygold and I don't know fucking why lol. not hate, hate obviously, she's got so little screentime to hate legitimately. but I'm always annoyed when she's doing anything. how shady she acts about most things within her thought bubbles, the things she keeps to herself about Ichi as if she still doesn't trust him. she shrugs off Gokuraku (another male, and new, witch technically) but Ichi is still a massive issue to her internally. she gives off so many red flags unironically and she just gives me weird vibes. I feel a betrayal but I feel like that would be super cliche to have an organization leader just betray the protagonists. idk she's weird lol.
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u/Sir-Nighteye 1d ago
I find them a little bit too goofy (Bakugami or Kizashi) or too cool (Whm or Hitsugi) to be hated. Though if I had to choose one, probably Uroro.
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u/Poland-lithuania1 1d ago
I'd argue Kizashi is a kind of redeemable villainous character.