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Mar 19, 2020 1:33 AM
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I'm just curious of who is the character that in your opinion, you considered as edgy and horribly written at the same time.
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Ken Kaneki. The best edgelord of all time.
Mar 19, 2020 1:47 AM
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I don't like Shigaraki from MAH if that counts.
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Almost all edgy characters are horribly written.
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Almost all edgy characters are horribly written.


Tell me ten of them. At least the easiest example in your opinion.
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Naofumi. I guess. I mean the portrayal of his character was that he became an edgelord. This didn't work out
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The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?
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Sasuke. I remember I didn't like this guy at all.
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A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest?
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A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?

The mc from arifureta,Hajime Nagumo.
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A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?

Unfortunately i also forgot his name.
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ShadowBladeX said:
A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest?
Missaliensan said:
A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?

The mc from arifureta,Hajime Nagumo.
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A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
The kid from that one isekai where he's in a cave with a CG bear, gets his arm munched. What was that one called?

Unfortunately i also forgot his name.

That'll do it. Cheers you three....
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A_Sad_Dust_Cloud said:
ShadowBladeX said:

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest?
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The mc from arifureta,Hajime Nagumo.
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Unfortunately i also forgot his name.

That'll do it. Cheers you three....


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I guess I would say Shigaraki.. He was pretty boring.

I can't consider Hajime from Arifureta a "edgelord" cause his behavior is more exaggerated than normal ones. It's more chunni like than anything else.


Almost as if he is one
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Mar 19, 2020 3:18 AM
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Vague0 said:
Almost all edgy characters are horribly written.

Absolutely.
But the Arifureta guy took the crown so far. He is absolutely hilarious.

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Sasuke. I remember I didn't like this guy at all.

Even if I hadn't seen it at all, I have seen a bunch of episodes here and there over the years, and even I was annoyed by his edginess. Even if wondered why Naruto won't let him finally down, if he is that much of an asshole and is going on for hundreds of episodes.

Otherwise I like more reserved and a BIT of assholey characters too (really depends on the situation and how they are written), if they have other sides to them as well and don't go over the top with edginess and actually change that over time. You know, doing dumb stuff like caring for anyone else than yourself for once or not thinking it's funny / whatever, if people die or being grateful for once. Stuff like that, I dunno.
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You can go and start watching Divine Gate.
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You can go and start watching Divine Gate.


Well, judging by the rating of divine gate, it looks like your word are right my friend.
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Vague0 said:
Almost all edgy characters are horribly written.



I agree, if you consider character "edgy", it probably means that he sucks
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NeoAnkara said:




You can go and start watching Divine Gate.

That's hilarious and as corny and cheesy as that one funniest quote I found in a ya book.



*angst intensifies* :D
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Maneki-Mew said:
NeoAnkara said:




You can go and start watching Divine Gate.

That's hilarious and as corny and cheesy as that one funniest quote I found in a ya book.



*angst intensifies* :D


Oh my GOD! What is that even mean. That quote tries to be cool and deep, but it ends up cringe-worthy, confusing, and even laughable.
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Probably Kaneki, the most popular edgelord.
(and like 99% of characters in TG tbh)
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ManOfBalance said:
Maneki-Mew said:

That's hilarious and as corny and cheesy as that one funniest quote I found in a ya book.



*angst intensifies* :D


Oh my GOD! What is that even mean. That quote tries to be cool and deep, but it ends up cringe-worthy, confusing, and even laughable.

That's why I stopped back then buying ya books, just because the dresses on the covers were beautiful... or because the covers were beautiful in general. I swear, so many girls buying shitty books, just because they are drawn to the dresses on the cover lol.
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Ken Kaneki.He is worshipped by edgelords as their Jesus.I don't know about the manga version but anime version doesn't explain anything.He is edgy for the sake of being edgy.Emo Kaneki from Root A and Black Reaper are the most edgiest versions of Kaneki.
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Maneki-Mew said:
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Oh my GOD! What is that even mean. That quote tries to be cool and deep, but it ends up cringe-worthy, confusing, and even laughable.

That's why I stopped back then buying ya books, just because the dresses on the covers were beautiful... or because the covers were beautiful in general. I swear, so many girls buying shitty books, just because they are drawn to the dresses on the cover lol.

Yep, that is accurately very true lol.
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Probably Kaneki, the most popular edgelord.
(and like 99% of characters in TG tbh)

Yep, That is very much true. Kaneki = KanEDGY.
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Ken Kaneki.He is worshipped by edgelords as their Jesus.I don't know about the manga version but anime version doesn't explain anything.He is edgy for the sake of being edgy.Emo Kaneki from Root A and Black Reaper are the most edgiest versions of Kaneki.

XD XD XD XD XD!!!! The way you speak the truth (and the truth that you speak itself) is capable to make me laugh REALLY HARD, because these are accurately true!!
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Maneki-Mew said:


You can go and start watching Divine Gate.

That's hilarious and as corny and cheesy as that one funniest quote I found in a ya book.



*angst intensifies* :D [/quote]

Now I get curious, can you disclose the name of this book? It's a common fact that LN are made with random phrases and packed up with beautiful colors. I am almost certain that LN writers developed a similar tool as this website: Write your own math paper

Otherwise, there is a show full of edgy characters but the MC: Mirai Nikki. Ousama game works too.
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A tiny list of Characters that try to hard to the point its almost laughable.

Kirito
Mikasa
Levi
Yuno
Keneki

Those are just the top of the iceberg tho. Some of them are fun to watch but all of them are badly written imo.
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Meusnier said:

Now I get curious, can you disclose the name of this book? It's a common fact that LN are made with random phrases and packed up with beautiful colors. I am almost certain that LN writers developed a similar tool as this website: Write your own math paper

Shatter Me. No japanese light novel, just a young adult fantasy romance and not a good one, imo. I was dumb and bought it, because I was like 16 and the dress on the cover was beautiful lol.

ManOfBalance said:
sonofbatmanrp13 said:
Ken Kaneki.He is worshipped by edgelords as their Jesus.I don't know about the manga version but anime version doesn't explain anything.He is edgy for the sake of being edgy.Emo Kaneki from Root A and Black Reaper are the most edgiest versions of Kaneki.

XD XD XD XD XD!!!! The way you speak the truth (and the truth that you speak itself) is capable to make me laugh REALLY HARD, because these are accurately true!!

If you speak of being a worshipped edgelord, then I must automatically think of Hachiman from Oregairu, although I think many people just misunderstand what the series and his characters are about a lot.
I don't think that his edginess is presented as something good from the series actual point of view, or as something desirable to achieve for your own.
He is just a lonely boy with no friends and since he doesn't really know how to approach to people, he is jealous of those, who are living a life he wants to live.
I've seen it so many times in real people, who are covering themselves in edginess and trying to tell themselves that people are shit anyway, because they don't want to recognize that maybe, it's their own fault (too). Or they are scared of getting close to people and look for excuses to avoid them.
He even gets character development and slowly gets better, so for me it's a proof that it doesn't want to be edgy as a good thing.
But you know, the edgelords see this more often as weakness of the series than as an actual strength of the series and his character development.
Anyway, that guy is just the definition of teenage edge to me lol.

About Ken Kaneki: it comes across as kinda shallow to me, when the message is "it's not me, who is the problem, it's the others", when you are a fucking ghoul and people have every logical reason and right to be afraid of you.
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Shigaraki. The guy has so little screentime and barely had any character development.


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NeoAnkara said:




You can go and start watching Divine Gate.

That's hilarious and as corny and cheesy as that one funniest quote I found in a ya book.



*angst intensifies* :D
Which reminds me of this:



Are anime edgelords worse than Anakin?
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Surprised I haven't seen the crème de la crème "I got bullied and thrown out of a window so I'll kill my whole class" Nishi himself pop up yet. Gantz doesn't have amazing writing nor does it have good enough material that outweighs the bad or questionable. But this guy. He makes an impression on you right away. Talks a huge game, thinks he's the best, calls other people Homo sapiens (because of course he does), and then he acts all pathethic as soon as he's backed into a corner. The guy tries way too hard, but when push comes to shove, he's a fruitcake.
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Shield Hero's Naofumi is the worst written edgelord I've seen in anime. I hate the way he turns from a typical, generic, nice guy MC to an angst-filled victim with OP powers activated by anger. -all because 1 person in his life told a lie about him. Poor baby!
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Maneki-Mew said:
Meusnier said:

Now I get curious, can you disclose the name of this book? It's a common fact that LN are made with random phrases and packed up with beautiful colors. I am almost certain that LN writers developed a similar tool as this website: Write your own math paper

Shatter Me. No japanese light novel, just a young adult fantasy romance and not a good one, imo. I was dumb and bought it, because I was like 16 and the dress on the cover was beautiful lol.


Thank you for your answer. "young adult fantasy romance" isn't this the definition of a western light novel? No need to insult yourself, tastes hopefully change for the best bringing a natural hatred for average stuff aimed at young people.

Another list of names:

Tokishima Haruto (Valvrave)
Ouma Shuu (Guilty Crown)
Masamune (Masamune-kun no Revenge)
Solork Ikta (Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin)
Fujii Natsuo (Domestic na Kanojo)

Is it me or all bad anime have such a MC?
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Death note's raito, and it's not even close. Even more hilarious ocnsidering how many somehow don't see it as some edgy teen nonsense but some incredibly deep AnImuH.

Close second would be arifureta's...mc, whatever his name is. Overall quality is garbage but compared to DN the latter at least is self-aware as to how hilariously edgy it is. Well, mostly self-aware, at least.
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Katsushit from BnHA is a boring, insufferable, and edgy rival. Funny how people trash on Sasuke yet praise this dude. Sasuke lost his entire clan from a young age, which at least explains his behavior and he was decent in part 2 of naruto. Katsushit is an annoying brat who's suffering from a severe case of anal devastation because the guy he used to torment surpassed him. Hopefully, he dies like the little bitch he is.
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Ima go with Shigaraki too, everything about him is boring and kinda cringy plus ugly.
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Naofumi from Shield Hero, I get it that he cannot trust people anymore because of what Bitch did to him but as the story progresses he just comes of as edgy while the story itself devolves to your typical copy-paste isekai.
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Rob Lucci. This idiot used to be cool, not anymore. He smells like Fairy Tail shit.
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dictator Shu from that one arc in Guilty Crown

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Mikado (Durarara) eppeically 2nd season.


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Tomura Shigaraki. He sorely lacking in the aesthetic of edgy.
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I'd like to know if people think Light is a well or not well written edgelord specifically. I feel like he decides to kill criminals with very lazy motivations.
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Idk, someone like the School Days MC or Yuno from Mirai Nikki or maybe the Guilty Crown MC. Or like 70% of all characters in Akame ga Kill. All of these are perfect examples of being edgy in a negative sense, their whole shows but especially the characters in question.

Most others people have mentioned are quite alright compared to them if you ask me. Kaneki or Sasuke are not among my favorite chars either but they're still better written and have more to them than Guilty Crown or Akame ga Kill characters imo.
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Ayanokouji, watching him was so cringe inducing, especially during the last episode.

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This guy from Angels of Death, horrible show and horrible character, same with the other main.

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Definitely Ken Kaneki.
He's all edgy and moody in season 2, but has that "I'm a little b*tch" vibe about him.
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Sasuke. I remember I didn't like this guy at all.


Even though Sasuke is one of my favorite characters the way he is now, I understand what you're saying. I thought he was pretty hard to deal with during the series as well.
          
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Shatter Me. No japanese light novel, just a young adult fantasy romance and not a good one, imo. I was dumb and bought it, because I was like 16 and the dress on the cover was beautiful lol.


Thank you for your answer. "young adult fantasy romance" isn't this the definition of a western light novel? No need to insult yourself, tastes hopefully change for the best bringing a natural hatred for average stuff aimed at young people.

No, I mean why...? I still like some of these genres and I think it's only looking down on, because they are "girly" genres. Some of these are good imo.
But I knew THIS book will be bad. I just wanted to read it, because a friend wanted to read it and I liked the cover haha

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Katsushit from BnHA is a boring, insufferable, and edgy rival. Funny how people trash on Sasuke yet praise this dude. Sasuke lost his entire clan from a young age, which at least explains his behavior and he was decent in part 2 of naruto. Katsushit is an annoying brat who's suffering from a severe case of anal devastation because the guy he used to torment surpassed him. Hopefully, he dies like the little bitch he is.

I don't know, if he's not well-done, but he is personality-wise still one of the most annoying and off-putting characters to me.

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This guy from Angels of Death, horrible show and horrible character, same with the other main.


Absolutely agree. I hate this "sympathizing with a psychopath, because he had a tragic childhood(tm)"-trope.
But he is nothing compared to Lucy from Elfen Lied, the biggest edgequeen in history to me.
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