Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba ep. 1 was sad as all heck but also really good. Hopefully it keeps all the emotion and doesn't just go full shounen. There is a lot of potential with what the main character is trying to accomplish.
| Super_Boom said: The main cast is pretty good overall, but if the only way to make your MC look good is to give every other character an IQ of 3, it seems like less of an achievement. |
I've dropped plenty of media for that terrible literary device. I don't understand it. A good author should realize that by making the enemy look good, it makes the protagonist look even better. Beating a stupid enemy, though? Big deal.
There was a fantasy book I started not long ago. Really liked the main character and the primary threat had a lot of potential. It turned into something of a feminist romp, yeah, but I've read books with a feminist slant before and enjoyed them when they were well-written and realized. Not this time. In this book, the author's way of empowering the female characters was to make all the male characters stupid, petty, and weak. On top of that, at least three of the male characters had love or desire for a female character as one of their primary motivations. On top of that, the female characters were the ones with the strongest magical powers and by far the strongest warriors. It came across as nothing more than wish fulfillment and ruined a story that had some actual potential.
You don't make your heroes look good by giving them a cakewalk path to victory, you just bore your audience and potentially break their sense of immersion. It's bad writing.
