Sympathy For The Devil

Apr 17, 7:01 AM

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Hiro Shishigami is was one of the best written fictional characters .
Some consider him to be an irredeemable devil and others think his final action redeems him.

I made a new YT channel and Hiro was on the first characters I felt I need to talk about & hopefully make some people
see him in a new light....and maybe understand him a bit.

https://youtu.be/t3opoNZ4Nzo?si=tAt1B28LO8byXhl5

Apr 17, 7:10 AM

Piromysl

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Hiro is a textbook example of a psychopath, which he even confirms in one of the scenes. This condition cannot be fixed and the only resolution so separating such individual from society.
He is irredeemable due to the nature and motivation of his evil. We've already seen him helping people before relapsing into murdering people for fun again, so I assume that if he would hypothetically somehow survive, he would start wreaking havoc again, which is why I don't consider his sacrifice as an actual redemption, but more like him not having anything else to do.

PiromyslApr 17, 2:36 PM

Apr 17, 11:38 AM

IhnalakoKaina

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And by others you mean people who don't understand the meaning of evil or redemption. I guess the show going so unbearably hard on the indiscriminate violence was in fact meant to sate the appetite for gore that some godless folks have, and not at all to set him up without a shadow of a doubt as an overall bad that the world is better off without. Hitler was against animal cruelty.

Apr 17, 12:49 PM

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@Piromysl I think it's more nuanced than that.
His circumstances were unusual to the say the least. Gaining that absurd power, him dying and coming back as something not human.
His young age and emotional trauma.....it was a perfect storm for a disaster to happen.

Redemption to me is not a destination, but a path you must walk until you die (if it's really genuine)
It doesn't erase past actions or forgive them....so I like to think that no one can be beyond redemption.

I appreciate if you watch the video to understand what I mean better.

Thanks for the reply.

Apr 18, 1:13 AM

Owlblocks

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his psychopathic evil makes him a great and tragic villain, but I don't particularly find myself more sympathetic to him than the average villain. He was well written and really made Inuyashiki what it was, though

Apr 18, 6:39 AM

quietkun27

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Hiro is great villain but the only crime I see zero problem with him doing is killing those bullies they deserve it after what they did to his friend (don't remember his name)

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