and why is it Hiro?
I mean, it has to be Kazuya from Rent a Girlfriend, right? I haven’t watched the anime, but if it is even remotely similar to the manga, it is definitely Kazuya.
I haven’t seen Darling in the Franxx, so I can’t personally speak to how bad Hiro is.
Forgetting about Kazuya is like winning the game. As soon as you remember he exists, you lose.
It blows my mind that he is the main character of a wildly successful series. I used to read the manga as it came out because it was so much fun to make fun of it with the rest of the manga subreddit. However, as the series kept going, and going, and going, it stopped becoming fun any more. Now, if you were to check the subreddit, the Rent a GF chapter threads basically languish in obscurity because it isn’t even fun to make fun of anymore; it’s just sad.
I had that exact same experience. There was a while there when it was fun to make fun of the series, but it’s not even that any more. It’s just awful.
I think the central problem is that the setup was supposed to be that the characters were other than they appeared to be - that she was going to turn out to not be a shallow, self-absorbed slut and he was going to turn out to not be a pathetic creep, but then they both turned out to actually be exactly and only what they initially appeared to be.
My vote goes to Subaru from Re:Zero. I have never hated an anime character so viscerally.
Not only is he a useless waste of meat, an arrogant prick who refuses to ever learn or better himself in any way despite having the ultimate cheat to do so… He had Rem – the best best girl that ever was best girl – confess to him in possibly the most beautiful moment ever, and he’s like “that’s nice but I still love the boring cardboard elf chick who has been mostly ignoring me all this time.”
And not only that, but the boring cardboard elf chick he claims to love explicitly asked him to do exactly and only one thing - to stay at home and not butt into things in the city - so what does he do? He rushes off to butt into things in the city, and fucks up literally everything for literally everyone.
I love the show and get that it’d kinda the point, but yeah. He’s absolutely a failure of a human and only makes small steps towards improvement pretty late in.
Hiro is fine. The villain of DitF is whoever rushed the writers for the last few episodes.
Imma say Souta from Re:Creators. His only contribution to the plot is pretty much just driving a friend in need to suicide. He then just exists for the entire anime, saying annoying things and pretending to be a viewer self-insert, but who would ever want to be him?
I fucking adore Re:Creators, but it would literally be twice as good if Soutas sorry ass of a main character was deleted. The show is already hard carried by the other characters.
Hell, I watched Re:Creators back then and I have zero memory of a mc type character so there you go lol
Makoto from Shool Days takes my vote. I got the series recommended and did not enjoy it at all but pushed through because I was promised the pay off would be worth it. By the time ‘stuff’ happened I honestly felt like he deserved it and was just glad it was over.
Other than that, Yukiteru from Mirai Nikki was pretty bad too. And most controversal, I disliked Mikado from Durarara - he was good in the beginning, but he peaked during the first Dollars meeting where he send the mail to everyone. After that, it was just downhill for him.
Mirai Nikki is much better if you think of Yukki as a minor side character that happens to be the motivation for the actual main character.
His character makes sense, but it isn’t interesting. So trying to give him the mindspace of an mc is just an exercise in disappointment.
I cannot stand Shinji Ikari
