Since the bandwagon for this has appeared...

[Papasmurf]

Ratings for Ozai and the LoK antagonists?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Have you played Fallout or Skyrim by now?

Haven't really had much time to invest in long games atm.

Ratings for Ozai and the LoK antagonists?

Ozai's as generic of an evil for the sake of evil as you can get, His only real saving grace would've been as a plot device for Zuko and Azula's character arcs, and even that falls apart when the former's actions in Season 3 are nonsensical and the latter's descent into madness was far too rushed to be meaningful.

1/10

Amon started off cool, but became a hypocrite in the worst sense when he was shown to be a Water Bender who's plan to take away bending is purely for megalomaniacal reasons, not to mention him breaking the rules of Blood Bending.

'Nother 1/10. Got no idea of the rest, except for the one that's apparently an evil Avatar that breaks the lore of the series.

 

[Papasmurf]

What about Marik/Yami Marik?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Marik could've been an interesting concept as an innocent manipulated GASLIGHTED ( ) and tormented by a personified dark side, but that was quickly ruined with how incompetent many parts of his overall plan was (putting one of his God Cards in the hands of a puppet rather than using it alongside Ra in his deck, almost losing to Joey/Jonouchi due to being too obsessed with Ra to sacrifice it and use Lava Golem, etc.) and Melvin Yami Marik was just evil for the sake of evil without any catalyst for it. Marik's backstory was OK, but his dark self being a possessive force rather than one that grew within him being what killed his father made the drama hollow. Proof that Gemini Saga from Saint Seiya is still the only Shonen villain to have pulled off this concept well.

2/10 for still being a decent idea and superficially Yami Marik has a pretty cool design. YGOTAS Marik/Melvin is a 9/10 for entertainment alone .

 

[Papasmurf]

What about Bakura, , Pegasus, Noah and that gay faggot from that filler arc that wanted to take over Kaiba's company?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Bakura/ was pretty mediocre and evil for the sake of evil in his dark self, but at least had enough build up as an antagonist for Yugi throughout the series and solid enough a backstory in the last arc to be serviceable as an average villain. 5/10

Pegasus was probably the best antagonist in the series. Whilst not great, his backstory was OK in rationalising his goals and the moments showing him as having a very childish side to go along with his camp nature helped give him more personality than all the other villains in the series combined. 6/10.

Noah was just an excuse to bring in the parts of Kaiba's past from the early series that'd been glossed over until then and the attempt at making him sympathetic as a child overlooked by their father fell apart with how unhinged he was presented as in the final battle. 2/10

Didn't even bother watching that tournament filler arc, so he gets a 0/10 by default.

 

[Papasmurf]

What about the king of broken cards and BS combos, Dartz?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Beyond his backstory and the bullshit surrounding his throbbing deck, he's as forgettable a villain as they come with how stupid his plan of flooding the world was. 1/10 unless it's his Abridged self.

 

[Papasmurf]

Have you ever entertained reading :withheld Watsuki's post-Kenshin failures like Buso Renkin and Embalming just to compare him to his prime self?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Probably not, given how in already knowing Buso Renkin is just another version of Bleach's first arc with its only saving grace being a serviceable ending and Embalming is just riding on the coattails of a far more famous work, doing so would just be a waste of time.

 

[Ultimate Cell]

If you were had a chance to travel back in time and view a historical event, what would it be?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Probably one of the battles from the Fall of the Eastern Han/Three Kingdoms era such as the Battle of Red Cliffs to discern fact from fiction in the historical accounts. Either that, or Alexander the Great's campaign to see how a single man's intelligence and charisma almost conquered the world.

 

[SSJ2]

If you could remove 1 person from all of history, who would you choose?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I would say Karl Marx as communism and its lesser forms are definitely the poison that's slowly killing western society, though his writings weren't wholly original and someone else would just take his place of making that school of thought widespread. Still, I'd say it's worth a shot.

 

[ahill1]

What do you think about this video? Do you agree with his points?

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymc--ihhDJM

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I agree with pretty much everything he said to the point there's not really much I can offer, beyond that another thing supporting it being the practically trace amount of terrorist attacks in Japan compared to the high rate in countries with less border control.

 

[ahill1]

I agree with pretty much everything he said to the point there's not really much I can offer, beyond that another thing supporting it being the practically trace amount of terrorist attacks in Japan compared to the high rate in countries with less border control.

Yeah, but assuming that low-skilled workers are more prone to criminality is kind of a leap in logic, no?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Yeah, but assuming that low-skilled workers are more prone to criminality is kind of a leap in logic, no?

Not really. Low skilled workers are more likely to have not achieved the necessary skills due to their background likely being one with lesser living conditions, and statistics suggest those of worse living conditions are more likely to commit crime for several reasons, desperation being a key one. Wanting to minimise that risk as much as possible would make putting forth requirements for those with as high level skills as possible an understandable goal.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Romantic anime that you liked?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Rose of Versailles and Planetes if considering them romances, though the romantic aspect isn't the main drawing point.

Romance tends to be the most difficult genre for anime/manga to execute well as most of them waste time on "will they, won't they" tropes rather than doing what a romance series is supposed to do - explore a relationship between two people and the challenges that come with it. The two series I mentioned are the only ones I've seen to put a romantic sub-plot close to the forefront and explore those ideas reasonably well.