Bit of a weird topic but one im sure many thought about and for me i must complain.( doesn't involve all all anime but a sizable amount that it has become common.)

I say Anime and Manga but this also includes video game by japan in some cases.

(I also know this does apply to comic books too. Spiderman eh)

Look the life of a protagonist is hard. If nothing bad or unenventfful happens to them it gets boring. Sure it depends by genre or story but you get my point.

Now the struggles of a protagonist is meant to be compelling. Lets take the action drama series as a major exemple

Or rather the shonen or something close to it genre. You know the Protagonist gonna face many many foes usually in very tough fights were he gets sent to the hospital or something. Thats his main struggle and im fine with it.

Alas so many many many authors for the most stupid or ridiculous reasons seems to think that to keep them humble or some shit or comedic  purpose or anything else decide to get insulting.

Resulting in what i feel like is the protagonist going through shit by cast members who are not villains (important distinction. If a villain cause grief im 100 % fine with it. Its when non villains cause so much... lets say... trouble to them that im not fine and it makes me and others hate them more than the villains themselves. Weird huh? Especiallyif its the suppose love interest. Usually cause karma never hits half as hard on them.)

It leads to in my eyes a lack of appréciation towards the MC who works his ass off despite what others do to them. And honestly not coming off as funny as the author thinks it is. Hell despite some in universe justifications truth is its usually due to the author bias of other characters or many many other things(trend going, cliche use without charms...)

I shall make another post about appreciation another time.

More to the point it just downgrades the protagonist we are suppose to root for and treats him with disrespect. As if it use them to make fun of them abd just them. Usually no one else in the cast gets shit as hard as the MC in those cases. You usually recognize it base on how many Characters and how much they treat the MC without real respect or appreciation in contrast to others.

(Un)Suprisingly. Harem or story with a singular important guy and just Girls more or less tends to fall into that.

Which really makes you wonder why be part of a harem if your a joke and the girls keep treating you badly all the time and you do all their shit and they rarely if ever do the same for you.

More on that in another post.

Anyways lets us begin with 4 exemples. Two that can be debatable or not. One that i really HATED the series and one that is non action.

Exemple 1: Kamijou Touma

Now Touma is literally stated to have no luck cause of his imagine breaker. Now that would already be bad in terms of all the villains and dangerous situation he faces.

Alas due to the bad luck the author sure loves to embarass Touma all the fricking time. Even by standards of this type of thing. He gets biten by Index at the slightest provocation, Mikoto constantly zaps him and never actually calls him by his actual name(must i remindthose two are his closest female comrades. ) And thats not getting onto pretty much every other... bad stuff(minor or not) accusation and whatnot constantly throw towards him.

Needless to say its for me(and quite a few others) one hard reason to enjoy the story as it constantly makes fun of the MC in mean spirited ways ( other suffers but nowhere near the severity or frequencies of Touma) add to him constantly getting mocked by others. Oh and his memory loss too.

Exemple 2: Ragna the bloodedge

The blazblue world sucks hard. You get the tyranical NOL their opposite sector 7 who are no better all manipulated by one of fiction most evil character ever.

Life ins't easy for everyone in this world. But even by blazblue standards or anything really Ragna life just suuuuucccckkkksssss. Holy shit.

Now his awful backstory aside. Tbf a lot of Ragna issue are on him and his bad attitude and that hes a terrorist so he has a pretty awful reputation.

That said he really gets dunked on by people worse than him(villains or not, blazblue has few if any good morally characters, ). Like really badly, with all the constant insults by the likes of Rachel. Being force into help by Kokonoe in CP threatening him with a bomb. Platinum calling him a Pedo. Kagura hitting him due to some obvious misunderstanding that he didn't start. Tsubaki believing him to be the root of all evil till the very end. Jin wanting to kill him out of obsession ( power of order too) and jin being highly regarded by everyone overall as the hero of ikaruga and mr "hero".

And etc... basically he gets shit by everyone (save a few) who are all assholes(blazblue full of them) and while ragna not the nicest guy ever and does deserve some karma from his frankly awful deeds it really comes off later as too mean spirited by the hands of worse people who themselves dont suffer half as much as him and his story ends very bittersweet with him cease to be and everyone forgeting him despite his good deeds.

So yeah pretty bad. Unless you buy into the theory that Ragna life sucks bad cause its karma of his existence as the black beast destroying half the world in the past.... or futur.... i dunno its blazblue.

Exemple 3:.....iska from.... kimisen😤😤

Oh boy. I did months ago a 70000 character post about how much i DESPISE everything about this LN( anime S2 coming out soon...) cause its personaly the antithesis of everything i like and its a honest to god piece of trash work in the same tier as current RWBY.

Its a LN. So automatically isnt not what you expected to be amazing or something but its gets genuiely awful and simply not fun or charming.

Granted i am to blame for having high standards or acceptable ones. But thats no reason for the author to make such a dissapointing show and hyoe up for naught and butchering promises.

So this MC case(hes one of the blandest ever. A kirito clone with honestly little  emoting. Wtf is japan obsession with them?) The disrespect is extremely prélevant when put into comparaison with the obvious story bias of the fl(and her shitty maid and honestly her entire faction). See it promise that its a story of "equals" when it is anything but feeling like its equal.

He spend a year in prison. Always gets into trouble. The FL and her shit maid drugs him on neutral grounds and kidnap him and the maid tries to kill him when hes in cuffs. Then the fl has the galls to tame advantage of his kindness( its not kindness but plot tbh) to make it that he saves her shitty maid life.

And there is not once any true gratitude or apologies or respect from the fl or the maid. Sure they are on opposite sides but as the work goes on you realise that the author has a obvious favoritisme for his f***** magic casters( who are all girls) and the plot become them with the suppose MC as a side character.

The MC is a criminal out of jail for saving someone and has a bad reputation (not that its actually ever go into details cause the author is a talentless hack with no writting true skills) he gets teased or insulted and look down by so many others. The fl maid( who has too much screentime) constantly hates his guts, insult him with the worst typical insult mean girls in anime say to make character.

That. Are. Somehow. Inexplicably. Meant. To. Be. Funny.

Like calling him a dog. Accusing him of being a non human being at the slightest misunderstanding. Never calling him by name. Always saying things such as him to die or get kill. And Always blaming him for things that are her own fault.

Im not exagerating btw. This is all true. And Somehow the author underdeveloped mind think we are meant to like her even from just a neutral standpoint. Author is a... dumbass to put it simply. Incapable of regonizing that people hate her and that he whent too far.

He constantly gets into the FL troubles ( either by herself or others) and never once does he retaliate or gets fed up with this shit.

The FL? She a princess who so powerful she never loses fights with ease. Is never as mocked or insulted or gets put through the humilation she did to the ML and she steal all the big important plot focus. Her maid isn't better as not once does the MC or his friends ever starts insulting and calling her bitchiness. Now the story freely allows them to do awful things to the ml side with zero répercussions and saying awful things while never suffering any equal disrespect or pain in turn.

She one of the worst Mary sue i ever saw. And the story constant claim of it being a tale of equal is a utter LIE.

When she does something bad to the ml its whitewash. Never is there a moment where she or her maid fully pay at the ml hand for all the shit they did to him( and the zero thing he does to them, hell he actually helps them more and its never acknowledge by them.)

There is no equal suffering amongst them. Its a story that SAYS its about two sides but is actually about ONE side and the other is just there to take the heat and be side charactered.

Im gonna stop now. God this is a piece of shit series and the author a piece of storytelling trash unaware of his own stinks.

Exemple 4: Kosei from your lie in april.

Pretty quick this one. Kosei has a frankly horrific past and its awful. Its not a nice thing and makes us sympathic to him. Yet the story just seems to think that causing a already trouble kid some more anguish is comedic.

You know what im talking about with the constant physical abuse kaori and tsubaki do to him.

It turn off a lotta people at the cringe mood and atmosphere which is understandable.

In conclusion. I use to be indifferent but now no. I do not. It disgust me that a author doesn't just make the MC live hell but makes them lack self respect and have everyone. Even the suppose good characters crap on and on on them without stop. And in many cases no retaliation or karma for reasons( though i could guess in many cases  its a result of not wanting the ML to look bad hitting or causing harm to girls.... yet they are allowed to cause them grief??? Fuck double standards on its fucking ass).

It makes the author being mean or in cases awful with no concept of moderation or understanding of its audience. He gives no self respect to the MC. Refuse to make them flip off believing that simply getting walk over and never being feed up with this BS and other people who never showns appreciation or gratitude in proper is "good". Making them whimps, spineless incapable of standing up for themselves for everyone shitty treatments of them.

These author and their story disgust me on every level.

And i know that lots of my exemple are full of double standards. That cause its one of the easiest way to spot a work that has zero true respect for its MC or ML.

... i like when everyone in a story (or the main cast) suffers equally.  A suffering shared i call it. It prevent in my eyes from cases like these and makes it satisfying that assholes/bitches who cause the MC/ML grief of very bad quality suffers in turn

Especially if its a FL that never goes through even half of what the ML whent. By others or by her own hands

Call me a sadist or something but in those cases it would be Cathartic as hell. Its equal and fair in its unfairness. And whi knows. Maybe ill give the cast a actual understanding of what the MC goes through and improve their shit attitude.