Slaine, worst character of 2014?

Kaioshin_Sama said:
I don't know if it's just him, I find the cast in general to be one of the worst all around in 2014.

EarlAlois said:
Elduritto, Marito who can't do shit cause of trauma.

Inaho was a fun character at first, but he was developing into a Gary-stu/Kira yamato-ish.
Can't wait to see humanities struggle in season 2.

AnimeNyahaha said:
I mean in the next season everyone in the anime is gonna hate Slaine anyway for what he did, he doesn't need the entire anime community on his ass as well.

Darklight0303 said:


What struggle? They don't stand a chance without Inaho and or the princess. THat's what you don't get

EarlAlois said:


That's what makes it interesting, if they don't stand a damn chance, how will the story progress? Are there some Martians who will ally themselves to terrans when they find out about Saazbaum? Are the terrans going to become slaves to the Martians?

What will be the outcome? I don't see why people are so pissed off about those two being dead, I want to see what kind of plotwists they try and pull off without those trumpcards.

Why do you people must always want shit to go the easy way?
I will say this, good (or humans/Terrans in this case) don't always win.

I want the aliens to win this time!
FUCK YEA FOR ANTAGONISTS (and people/characters who makes mistakes, like Slaine.)

Geez spice up your lives a bit!

Darklight0303 said:
Go read Tokyo Ghoul if you like antagonists winning

Darklight0303 said:

Go read Tokyo Ghoul if you like antagonists winning

deadoptimist said:

Like hell. White Kaneki curbstomps everything, and if not, he goes into his kakuja mode and tears it to pieces. Current ending is obviously just a bait. Not to meantion that CCG cast are the real good guys.

Sorry for getting away from the topic.

Darklight0303 said:
There's a reason why I said READ not watch

deadoptimist said:

Yep, and I don't watch the adaptation at all. There is a big problem of who to consider the good guys there, but Kaneki more or less qualifies and for many chapters hei was Op enough to do what he wanted.

Despite gore the Kaneki plot looks like a typical shounen plot, so I am sure he will win in something.

EarlAlois said:
Yea Kaneki was Op as fuck... but Arima Holy crack!
That mofo is one powerful dude O_O...

I think it was a decent read, really, but if Amon is really dead....
*sighs and sits in front of a corner*

Ammmmooonnn-Kun~...
Whyyyyy.....~

deadoptimist said:


I am sure we will get the second half and more Arima at least)

Whoa! You're a fan of Amon too! He gets too little love from fans in my opinion, but he is amazing.
Let me hug you for a bit! |^_^/

*Looks frightfully at how offtopic they all are*

EarlAlois said:
Arima is scary, I should read that spin off they are doing with him, so I can understand him a little more.

EarlAlois said:
And, yea we are getting a little of track, aren't we, hehe~
Bah it's fine, someone will jump in and say Slaine is a bad character yadiyadi yada.

I'm pretty sure everyone is just tsun-tsun for Slaine~
hue hue hue~

deadoptimist said:


Oh, I somehow missed the spin-off. Yay, now I have something to read. Thank you! ^_^
(We absolutely need to chat about TG later. ><)

deadoptimist said:

Yeah, he is a sweet boy, but it seems that the only kind of love he has any luck with is the extremely tough one.

Megaphy said:
I didn't see one good argument for why Slaine is a shitty character, only insults and childish remarks. Why are you making people defend themselves by saying they don't like him and stuff, is it a wrong thing to be a fan of something? Slaine fandumbs? It's extremely immature to use this expression to offend other people. I have Slaine in my favorite characters list since the show started and he's all over my tumblr blog so go ahead, call me whatever you like since, apparently I'm a dumb fuck for having a different opinion. I might be overreacting here but threads like this make me so mad, I might explode.

Megaphy said:
I think both Inaho and the princess are going to turn up alive. Slaine is probably the torment target who is made to be hated and will end up as the bad guy and then die to leave the love triangle. Urobuchi favors stoic characters like Inaho and he believes they are the stronger ones so he won't go killing off the one this show has, no way.

Megaphy said:
I didn't see one good argument for why Slaine is a shitty character, only insults and childish remarks. Why are you making people defend themselves by saying they don't like him and stuff, is it a wrong thing to be a fan of something? Slaine fandumbs? It's extremely immature to use this expression to offend other people. I have Slaine in my favorite characters list since the show started and he's all over my tumblr blog so go ahead, call me whatever you like since, apparently I'm a dumb fuck for having a different opinion. I might be overreacting here but threads like this make me so mad, I might explode.

Megaphy said:
I think both Inaho and the princess are going to turn up alive. Slaine is probably the torment target who is made to be hated and will end up as the bad guy and then die to leave the love triangle. Urobuchi favors stoic characters like Inaho and he believes they are the stronger ones so he won't go killing off the one this show has, no way.

MixieMoon said:
"dont touch the princess"
okay slaine what did you ever do to deserve to touch her honestly you're a child in love.

Darklight0303 said:


Yup. Jealousy at it finest and dumbest

MixieMoon said:


although inaho was a bit robotic and emotionless he handled his losses like a boss. get shit done feel feels later.

Ghost-Lightning said:

I don't think he needed to finish him off. It was a pretty clean shot.

Darklight0303 said:
He also gave Slaine the middle finger at the end with that over the shoulder sarcastic smile.

EarlAlois said:
No one will want him so it's like: Slaine Vs. the world. Poor Slaine! So much hate towards a guy, cause he wasn't able to decide a side quickly enough, But Inaho didn't even give him a chance to join the side of the Terrans, now that I think about it...

*sigh* Misunderstandings...

Megaphy said:
Urobuchi favors stoic characters like Inaho and he believes they are the stronger ones so he won't go killing off the one this show has, no way.

deadoptimist said:


Nah, say whatever you want, but I think that the one who shot his love rival and walked away in silence looks more badass.




And they will probably kill him in the end.
I hope that he at least will achieve something, like, for example, cause some even more devastating disaster.
Still they tortured him a bit too much. It seems unlikely that he will be able to redeem himself, and when a character is unfortunate during the whole story and then dies, it is anticlimactic.


It is almost like he compensates for something. *Remembers the fate of Sayaka from Madoka and shudders.*
And yet his emotional characters are so interesting. You just wish he stopped beat them into death with so much fervor.

For those who want to write that Urobuchi has nothing to do with Aldnoah: I think he does. He may have written only first episodes, but that doesn't mean that he didn't contribute to the whole story.

Darklight0303 said:
Except he doesn't. He's a husk. A walking corpse with no purpose.

deadoptimist said:


At least he is walking and can do stuff.
In my books he has only started. And now things will finally become interesting.

If Saazbaum lives (and maybe if he doesn't) I see potential for Slaine to follow in his footsteps. He repeats Saazbaum's tragedy in a way. Most likely Saazbaum thought himself guilty for his lover's death.

Darklight0303 said:
Maybe but nothing good will come of it. For him or anyone around him

deadoptimist said:

Maybe by mistake? I am sure he can do good by mistake and when he doesn't want to.
But he will be entertaining, I hope. I'll get a lot of good from watching him suffer.

Darklight0303 said:
Given that you made it clear you love tragedies you're in a win win situation regardless. Me I don't care as long as Slaine dies a bloody and lonely death

sospokemisery said:
I always liked Slaine more than Inaho (although that's not saying much since he wasnt great). I just hate robotic mc's. "But they're so badass and strong and logical and perfect!", well that's fucking boring. There's no suspense if you know a character will solve everything perfectly; you can predict the outcome usually and it ruins the charm of tuning in each week to see how things will work out.

I can't personally support a character that seems wired together. They have no human elements and its just so boring watching them do everything so perfectly and logically while having that stupid blank fucking stare the entire time. It's like cheering on a computer as it calculates large equations; impressive, but not interesting.

Slaine was stupid, I agree, but his conflict and mistakes made him interesting. Humans make mistakes, especially when you're a teenager, that's what makes Slaine realistic and what allowed me to support him more than Inaho. With Slaine you NEVER know what will happen, as with that ending, and that's really what kept me interested in the series. You can dislike Slaine for shooting your beloved robot, but he is the only character remotely given depth. If Inaho is alive by some miracle then it will just be another 12 episodes of a boring robot doing things perfectly. yawn. no interest there, well, for me at least. People looking for something mediocre to pass the time could enjoy it maybe.

I can't get over that ending though. It was soooo satisfying seeing the robot shot. All heil, Slaine! Be it antagonist or protagonist, I look forward to your exploits in the second season!

sospokemisery said:
I always liked Slaine more than Inaho (although that's not saying much since he wasnt great). I just hate robotic mc's. "But they're so badass and strong and logical and perfect!", well that's fucking boring. There's no suspense if you know a character will solve everything perfectly; you can predict the outcome usually and it ruins the charm of tuning in each week to see how things will work out.

I can't personally support a character that seems wired together. They have no human elements and its just so boring watching them do everything so perfectly and logically while having that stupid blank fucking stare the entire time. It's like cheering on a computer as it calculates large equations; impressive, but not interesting.

Slaine was stupid, I agree, but his conflict and mistakes made him interesting. Humans make mistakes, especially when you're a teenager, that's what makes Slaine realistic and what allowed me to support him more than Inaho. With Slaine you NEVER know what will happen, as with that ending, and that's really what kept me interested in the series. You can dislike Slaine for shooting your beloved robot, but he is the only character remotely given depth. If Inaho is alive by some miracle then it will just be another 12 episodes of a boring robot doing things perfectly. yawn. no interest there, well, for me at least. People looking for something mediocre to pass the time could enjoy it maybe.

I can't get over that ending though. It was soooo satisfying seeing the robot shot. All heil, Slaine! Be it antagonist or protagonist, I look forward to your exploits in the second season!

sospokemisery said:
I always liked Slaine more than Inaho (although that's not saying much since he wasnt great). I just hate robotic mc's. "But they're so badass and strong and logical and perfect!", well that's fucking boring. There's no suspense if you know a character will solve everything perfectly; you can predict the outcome usually and it ruins the charm of tuning in each week to see how things will work out.

I can't personally support a character that seems wired together. They have no human elements and its just so boring watching them do everything so perfectly and logically while having that stupid blank fucking stare the entire time. It's like cheering on a computer as it calculates large equations; impressive, but not interesting.

Slaine was stupid, I agree, but his conflict and mistakes made him interesting. Humans make mistakes, especially when you're a teenager, that's what makes Slaine realistic and what allowed me to support him more than Inaho. With Slaine you NEVER know what will happen, as with that ending, and that's really what kept me interested in the series. You can dislike Slaine for shooting your beloved robot, but he is the only character remotely given depth. If Inaho is alive by some miracle then it will just be another 12 episodes of a boring robot doing things perfectly. yawn. no interest there, well, for me at least. People looking for something mediocre to pass the time could enjoy it maybe.

I can't get over that ending though. It was soooo satisfying seeing the robot shot. All heil, Slaine! Be it antagonist or protagonist, I look forward to your exploits in the second season!

Darklight0303 said:

he will fuck up.That's the only thing he's good at. fucking things up for himself or everyone around him.

ninjastarforcex said:

thats a good thing.
this shitty wasted potential anime need to be fucked up to be at least a bit interesting

ninjastarforcex said:

thats a good thing.
this shitty wasted potential anime need to be fucked up to be at least a bit interesting

soros said:
Nope, he's the best character!!

Darklight0303 said:


Just cause you say so? How about trying to present some arguments other than "YAY he killed the characters I couldn't relate to"

soros said:


Well, simple he's getting all torture and hatred up on his back since he was young so he's not a logical guy like Inaho and get emotional involve in every action he done.
Comparing to the deadwood Inaho throughout the story just act emotionless and good with everything, Slaine got the most character development because he became from the martian slave to a solo-soldier and having his own Mech!!

soros said:


Well, simple he's getting all torture and hatred up on his back since he was young so he's not a logical guy like Inaho and get emotional involve in every action he done.
Comparing to the deadwood Inaho throughout the story just act emotionless and good with everything, Slaine got the most character development because he became from the martian slave to a solo-soldier and having his own Mech!!

sospokemisery said:
Slaine is stupid, but his inner conflicts and mistakes make him realistic and at least the smallest bit interesting. More so than Inaho, who has a robotic personality no matter what. Friend killed in front of him? Missile flying at his city? Fighting in a giant robot? Blank expression 24/7.

Who cares about what happens to a character that obviously doesn't care about what happens to himself?
I personally found no enjoyment in watching Inaho do almost everything perfectly and act like a robot the entire time. If you enjoy that then kudos. You probably enjoyed this series a lot more than I did, and I respect that you have your own opinion.

I'm only looking forward to season 2 because I'm hoping Slaine starts some new shit and makes things interesting. Problems make a story, at least in my opinion, but problems that are solved within a split second and with ease make a boring story in my opinion.

(Note: I don't really like Slaine at all, its more that I hate him the least out of all the characters in this series. Just a heads up if you were planning on attacking me like the others and accusing me of being a fanboy or w/e)