| When it comes to character(s) who deteriorate through the anime, imo it's Makoto of School Days. On the other hand, anime like Azumanga Daioh has no personality development. The girls stay stagnant from start of high school until graduation. |
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| Suzaku Kururugi is the epitome of character deterioration |
| Development is not necessarily improvement. If what the author set out to do is show the gradual deterioration of a character, e.g. in a moral sense, it's still development. Take two classic examples from literature: Macbeth and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Both are masterpieces of character development, each in its genre. They end with extremely degraded protagonists, and you understand the changes they underwent perfectly. |
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| Development is not the reason I watch anime for. It's a rare phenomena in anime. |
| "I think I wanted to attack something. Like betraying people or hurting people. And, well, it's not exactly nice, but hurting the readers too... In all honestly, I feel that's what I really wanted to do. For me, as a reader, when I think, "this manga will remain in my heart," it means, for example, it phenomenally hurt me: It's those kinds of experiences I'm after." - Pajime Hisayama (My favourite hurting author). |
| That's still character development though. Character development isn't always a positive change, a character can change in a negative way and that's still character development. Example: The quiet kid turns mass murderder, that might not be a good change but is still a change so it's character development. |
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| One that I can think of is Erwin from AoT. He takes a turn for the worse in his development through the show. |
| Gon Freeces has the greatest (negative) Character Development of all time Period |
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| The opposite of character development is not "deterioration," it's Flanderisation. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
Thigh_Tide said: The opposite of character development is not "deterioration," it's Flanderisation. finally someone who knows. thank you. |
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| This probably happens with most Gary/Mary sues, Since they first start as charismatic or cool but with only the repetition they get worse, So Sakuta from Bunny Girl Senpai would be my pick. Also, The MC from Charlotte, His change was very rough and hard to believe. |
| I don't speak English that much, so please cut me some slack |
| Ikari Shinji But it still is character development |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| Asuna from SAO - Strong female lead to Damsel harem girl (Idk about the other seasons if there's change but S1 is her strong to weak cycle) |
| "When I decided to follow my dream, I had already discarded my life.” -Roronoa Zoro |
| I think this is kind of linked to the Dementia genre, where the MC gradually gets more mentally insane/ undergoes Flanderisation (thank you Thigh_Tide for the terminology) as the anime progresses. |
| "不幸だ!" - Kamijou Touma Check out my anime list by clicking here (it's public now).  |
Playay said: that's the best thing man. He becomes dumb. I loved it.The MC from Charlotte has a development before and i think you could call it as a backward development or whatever you call it. |
| "I think I wanted to attack something. Like betraying people or hurting people. And, well, it's not exactly nice, but hurting the readers too... In all honestly, I feel that's what I really wanted to do. For me, as a reader, when I think, "this manga will remain in my heart," it means, for example, it phenomenally hurt me: It's those kinds of experiences I'm after." - Pajime Hisayama (My favourite hurting author). |
| I don’t want to think of an answer, I’m lazy Since we’re talking about character development, my automatic answer is Kirito from SAO lmao Character DeDevelopment / No Character / No Development Kirito is basically a universal answer to all of these |
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| Mysteries don't tend to have a lot of character development. Just see Ciel from Kuroshitsuji as an example. In Bungou Stray Dog, the MC changes bits by bits and also two other younger characters, but the adults... nope. I mean one changed, but mainly before the plot even begun. But Albert from Gankutsuou doesn't change one bit. |
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| I'd have to say Light Yagami during the Yotsuba arc of DEATH NOTE. Thankfully he gets back on track right afterwards |
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| It's still character development z because regardless if it changes character to be more morally good or bad, it still is used to push story forward, which is s good thing. Two examples for you: Swindler/Regular Person from Akudama Drive literally turns into a villain over the course of the story. Rinmaru from Tensura turns from a Mary Sue to an actual decent character because of what he did in season 2. |
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