Besides their brilliant thematic resonance with Chihiro (and Hakuri too in Kyora's case), I think the reason why Kagurabachi's villains are so compelling and nuanced despite being "pure evil" is because they feel like they're the protagonists of their own story: they do not simply exist to oppose the hero, they have their own routine, goals, ideologies, relationships, likes and dislikes; they have a presence in the world that started before they met Chihiro and that will last after their death-in many manga (Naruto, Black Clover, etc., even good ones like JoJo), too many antagonists are mere "villains of the week", opposing the hero on a rather superficial level for one or two fights before leaving the story and being immediately forgotten by the characters
John’s sorcery is gonna be CRACKED I just know it like if it’s underpowered but it’s how he’ll use it is what makes John a full demon. But how he acts as a leader is something I wanna see more of
@@omabang5002 oh I forgot about that cringe Reddit shit Main reason I left the subreddit, cause of all the unfunny in-jokes Willing to bet some unfunny mf’s still call him that.
I was like, "Hey, this dude seems quite good for a faceless henchman, might give some troubles to Chihiro" Then I was speachless with the reveal. I was not sure if he was telling the truth or not.
I really wasn't a fan of Yura's introduction, thought it was a bit unremarkable and cliché especially when comparing with the other antagonists, but he's growing on me kinda. I think that sort of vibe was the point: he's very low-key and "underpowered" (in the sense it seems he can't do shit against a sword bearer) as a villain, he's okay with making concessions, trusting his allies, giving them responsibilities and letting them do as they please (because he himself only acts if he feels like it), while putting his assets in such position just so that they won't become rogue and backfire in his face; someone compared him to Blackbeard, and that feels pretty spot on
It was the same for me till i realised that i didn't like it because i just wanted the Hishaku to be in the spotlight later. In retrospective, knowing that Yura only showed up for a bit and there being 10 members in total now, i've gotten to appreciate the novelty in how he's introduced, from the meta context of him seeming like just another suit bum to us being take advantage of by the narrative, to the pure surprise of his introduction in the story itself. Makes me look forward to the inevitable anime reactios that'll come out years from now
@mattb.7079 I disagree honestly, but I see what you're saying. The jumpscare of the head of the Hishaku just being....there at the Rakuzaichi without warning was a crazy read. Now while yes, he can't do anything against Samura in a 1 on 1 because of Tobimune, the fact that he barely broke a sweat when it came to Chihiro and Cloud Gouger speaks volumes. But then again, when Hiyuki showed up, he dipped but that is most likely because she didn't fit into his plan. I like Yura alot.
I like Yura's intro for the same reason as you dislike it. He is almost indistinguishable from the rest of the yakuza that Chihiro was cutting down, blending into the background like some kind of Ghost or monster.
@@therealogdaffy since I've reread it, it feels much more enjoyable now that I know what happens next, especially in light of the recent events. To me this moment felt kinda pointless and strange in the context of the Rakuzaichi arc, but in retrospect it was a very organic way for the audience to learn about Yura without revealing too much information: we learned that he seeks to wield the Shin'uchi, that he'd rather take huge risk/make seemingly unreasonable sacrifice than showing his cards, that he does things as he pleases, that he's very knowledgeable about the blades and sorcery in general, and that he's extremely similar to Chihiro. If I'm being honest, he's exactly how I would picture Sukuna before he became the strongest... Don't let that guy use the Shin'uchi💀🙏
I’d say for a next level villain you’d need a few key things: 1. Firstly, a villain needs to be introduced well. The introduction is key for any villain (main or not) and forms a viewers initial conception of a character. A great example of this is the evil eye from Dandadan. The entire evil eye arc was spent building up the threat of the worm yokai with the evil eye hidden in the background. We knew something was 100% up with the evil eye and that’s delivered on in the flashback that it gets with Jiji and explains how jiji allows it to manifest within him. It’s tragic but also informs the evil eye’s childish and malicious intentions. He wants to kill people for revenge and for pleasure because violence is the only thing he understands which directly contrasts with Okarun and Momo. It gets even better when the evil eye absolutely dog walks everyone else including the main characters. He’s incredibly powerful and beats the crap out of everyone with 0 remorse. This allows him to challenge the protagonists both idealistically and physically forcing them to answer both of those questions if they want to defeat him. This leads into the second point. 2. Great antagonists need to be defeated ideologically and physically. The conclusion has to be as strong as the introduction for an antagonist to be satisfying. An example of this would be zabuza from Naruto. We come to understand zabuza and his cynical ideology over the course of the wave arc and naruto and team 7 confront him and defeat him on both points. His last action fulfills this character arc by him rejected the cynicism he grew up under allowing him to literally fight back against the scummy people of the world that would’ve abused him in the past. An example of this completely failing would be pain from Naruto. Pain has a phenomenal introduction but inevitably losses his fight against Naruto. However, Naruto never actually answers pains question about how he’ll save the ninja world, and even proves pain right in that the five great nations would always be at war or in silent conflict by the end of the series. In other words, Naruto fails to defeat pain ideologically which leads to some major problems as the story goes on, as Naruto fails to actually develop his ideology beyond pretty blind idealism. The antagonist is meant to prevent this by forcing the protagonist to evolve. Zabuza got Naruto to reject the ninja way of conforming to the brutality of their world. Pain should’ve got Naruto to completely abandon the idea of becoming hokage, and instead focus on becoming the child of prophecy. This seemed like the direction the plot was initially going in with jiraiya’s last words, pain literally destroying the village, and Naruto learning sage mode but kishimoto just abandons the idea and has everything go back to normal. This leads to point 3. 3. The villians actions need to create consequences. Another reason why the pain arc was disappointing was because practically nothing of consequence happened. Everyone in the village gets magically revived by pain and the only person who actually dies is jiraiya. This is especially bad because Kakashi had an entire death scene where he meets his father in the afterlife but comes back like nothing happened. It completely breaks the tension of the story ruining your readers expectations. This also helps establish the effect of the villain on the protagonist, as they have to reconcile the harm caused by the villain. Mahito in JJK does a really good job of this. Killing Nanami made Yuji genuinely crash out and my only criticism is that nobara should’ve stayed dead. It was a perfect way to shock the audience, develop Yuji, and get rid of characters who wouldn’t have plot relevance. The villain cleans up and develops the cast over time. They are tools and use them appropriately to develop the plot you want, and don’t go back on it after you commit to it. 4. Fourthly, a villians motivation needs to make sense within the context of the world they live in. The same goes for their backstories and I’ll use to examples to illustrate this. Firstly, we have orochimaru from Naruto. Orochimaru’s main goal was to achieve immortality but his method of getting there was stupid. His plan seemed to almost exclusively revolve around body hopping after his previous host died. He would (vaguely?) solve this by taking sasuke’s body but just having the sharingan doesn’t make you immortal. His whole plan essentially relies on him getting sasuke’s body only for it to decay and for him to never actually achieve immortality. It’s just vaguely alluded to that by having the sharingan he may achieve immortality. That’s a terrible motivation and seems even worse when you consider his backstory and fight with hiruzen. Orochimaru hated death after his parents died and feared it from the death of his first student (tsunade’s brother). Thus in his fight with hiruzen, hiruzen literally summons a god of death to take Orochimaru’s soul to permanently kill him. In this instance why not have Orochimaru seal this shinigami and attempt to absorb its powers over time to become truly immortal. Then having the sharingan would actually make sense as he would need it to control the shinigami’s powers with genjutsu or ocular prowess. Our second example is Aizen from bleach. Aizen is a great villain and his goal actually makes more sense than ichigo’s. Replacing the soul king could be considered a genuinely good thing when you consider how terrible the soul society is. The only caveat is that we never actually get to know why Aizen wants to do this. In his last moments before he’s sealed by urahara he seems to express genuine disgust at what the soul king is and represents but we never find out why or what exactly this motivation means. This isn’t necessarily bad but it leaves a lot on the table and sort of fails to answer Aizen’s ideological questions. Did Aizen truly want to replace the soul king due to a traumatic experience involving him or the soul society or was he simply an ambitious monster? We don’t know and it leaves his otherwise great character unfulfilled. Here we can see two characters, one with a great backstory that guides their otherwise bad motivations, and the other with a great motivation that lacks a backstory. If these were changed they could very easily become more complex and sensible characters in the context of their world with reasonable goals that the protagonist had to challenge in a reasonable manner. This leads into point 5. 5. Lastly, a villain should be used to develop the world. The villains backstory, powers, and character can all be used to build your world beyond the main plot and even introduce new plots. One reason zabuza kind of disappointed me was because his and haku’s backstory strongly hinted that Naruto would eventually challenge the tyrant of the water village, yagura. Instead he never did and world building was left on the table to just rot over the course of the story. One piece does a great job of avoiding this by often having an arc revolve around a location and what a villain is doing to it. Crocodile to alabasta, Doflamingo to Dresrossa, and kaido to Wano are all great examples of how a villain affects the world around them and how their backstory’s inflict that development. Don’t waste your villians! Use them to develop your protagonist and the world itself.
I want to make a comment regarding Orochimaru. Take this from a casual early Naruto and early Shippuden watcher. The main Orochimaru want sharingan because it could accelerate his process achieving immortality because sharingan could easily copy jutsus, beside other of its benefit. Sharingan only compatible and could be utilized to it's max only in an Uchiha body, that's why he want to use their body and not transplant a Sharingan into his own body. So he want Sharingan to copy all jutsu and with that knowledge he could achieve immortality easier. Also it could turn into a Rinnegan which have the power of elemental mastery, the paths, etc. That's why he also seeks it. Seems like a viable plan for me.
Aizen had narcissistic qualities, and looked down upon everyone. His dialogues make it pretty clear that he didn't want to be ruled by something that he thought was inferior to him.
Sojo was a great 1st villain definitely top 5 he made the protagonist accept the philosophy he has of the protagonist's own father as being just as right as his own's and Sojo also almost ended the series 😂
Yo, what's up with new gen villains in anime hanging in playgrounds first, the jjk guys? Now, this seriously, we went from evil castles to chilling in the park 😂😂😂😂
I like Toji because he is a character that appears as an 'outcast' from the power-system of the world. He defeated the pinnacle of Jujutsu through his muscles and wits alone. That being said I'm also a big fan of Rock Lee, Maki etc. I just like characters lile that.
The thing that I love about sojo is the same thing I love about uvogin from hxh he might be gone but i kind of don't miss him because in a sick and twisted way it feels as if he is still with us because everything he represented still stands strong
His character dynamic with Chihiro and his beliefs about people like Kunishige especially stand strong now that we’re learning about the crimes of the blade wielders and kunishige
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Besides their brilliant thematic resonance with Chihiro (and Hakuri too in Kyora's case), I think the reason why Kagurabachi's villains are so compelling and nuanced despite being "pure evil" is because they feel like they're the protagonists of their own story: they do not simply exist to oppose the hero, they have their own routine, goals, ideologies, relationships, likes and dislikes; they have a presence in the world that started before they met Chihiro and that will last after their death-in many manga (Naruto, Black Clover, etc., even good ones like JoJo), too many antagonists are mere "villains of the week", opposing the hero on a rather superficial level for one or two fights before leaving the story and being immediately forgotten by the characters
Oh shit I haven't peeped your channel since the JJK days but you've come along way king, keep it goin, loving the new character jpgs
MAYNE I BEEN GRINDIN YOU NEED TO COME BACK
John’s sorcery is gonna be CRACKED I just know it like if it’s underpowered but it’s how he’ll use it is what makes John a full demon. But how he acts as a leader is something I wanna see more of
Who the hell is John
@@nomansland1494 The community called Yura as John Hishaku before his name reveal lol
@@omabang5002 oh
I forgot about that cringe Reddit shit
Main reason I left the subreddit, cause of all the unfunny in-jokes
Willing to bet some unfunny mf’s still call him that.
@@nomansland1494Hella people call him John Hisaku
@@The_Emperor823 tragic
Sojos edo tensei is gonna go crazy
Yura intro was cold tho
I was like, "Hey, this dude seems quite good for a faceless henchman, might give some troubles to Chihiro"
Then I was speachless with the reveal.
I was not sure if he was telling the truth or not.
I really wasn't a fan of Yura's introduction, thought it was a bit unremarkable and cliché especially when comparing with the other antagonists, but he's growing on me kinda. I think that sort of vibe was the point: he's very low-key and "underpowered" (in the sense it seems he can't do shit against a sword bearer) as a villain, he's okay with making concessions, trusting his allies, giving them responsibilities and letting them do as they please (because he himself only acts if he feels like it), while putting his assets in such position just so that they won't become rogue and backfire in his face; someone compared him to Blackbeard, and that feels pretty spot on
It was the same for me till i realised that i didn't like it because i just wanted the Hishaku to be in the spotlight later. In retrospective, knowing that Yura only showed up for a bit and there being 10 members in total now, i've gotten to appreciate the novelty in how he's introduced, from the meta context of him seeming like just another suit bum to us being take advantage of by the narrative, to the pure surprise of his introduction in the story itself.
Makes me look forward to the inevitable anime reactios that'll come out years from now
@mattb.7079 I disagree honestly, but I see what you're saying. The jumpscare of the head of the Hishaku just being....there at the Rakuzaichi without warning was a crazy read. Now while yes, he can't do anything against Samura in a 1 on 1 because of Tobimune, the fact that he barely broke a sweat when it came to Chihiro and Cloud Gouger speaks volumes. But then again, when Hiyuki showed up, he dipped but that is most likely because she didn't fit into his plan. I like Yura alot.
I like Yura's intro for the same reason as you dislike it.
He is almost indistinguishable from the rest of the yakuza that Chihiro was cutting down, blending into the background like some kind of Ghost or monster.
@@therealogdaffy since I've reread it, it feels much more enjoyable now that I know what happens next, especially in light of the recent events. To me this moment felt kinda pointless and strange in the context of the Rakuzaichi arc, but in retrospect it was a very organic way for the audience to learn about Yura without revealing too much information: we learned that he seeks to wield the Shin'uchi, that he'd rather take huge risk/make seemingly unreasonable sacrifice than showing his cards, that he does things as he pleases, that he's very knowledgeable about the blades and sorcery in general, and that he's extremely similar to Chihiro. If I'm being honest, he's exactly how I would picture Sukuna before he became the strongest... Don't let that guy use the Shin'uchi💀🙏
I’d say for a next level villain you’d need a few key things:
1. Firstly, a villain needs to be introduced well. The introduction is key for any villain (main or not) and forms a viewers initial conception of a character. A great example of this is the evil eye from Dandadan. The entire evil eye arc was spent building up the threat of the worm yokai with the evil eye hidden in the background. We knew something was 100% up with the evil eye and that’s delivered on in the flashback that it gets with Jiji and explains how jiji allows it to manifest within him. It’s tragic but also informs the evil eye’s childish and malicious intentions. He wants to kill people for revenge and for pleasure because violence is the only thing he understands which directly contrasts with Okarun and Momo. It gets even better when the evil eye absolutely dog walks everyone else including the main characters. He’s incredibly powerful and beats the crap out of everyone with 0 remorse. This allows him to challenge the protagonists both idealistically and physically forcing them to answer both of those questions if they want to defeat him. This leads into the second point.
2. Great antagonists need to be defeated ideologically and physically. The conclusion has to be as strong as the introduction for an antagonist to be satisfying. An example of this would be zabuza from Naruto. We come to understand zabuza and his cynical ideology over the course of the wave arc and naruto and team 7 confront him and defeat him on both points. His last action fulfills this character arc by him rejected the cynicism he grew up under allowing him to literally fight back against the scummy people of the world that would’ve abused him in the past. An example of this completely failing would be pain from Naruto. Pain has a phenomenal introduction but inevitably losses his fight against Naruto. However, Naruto never actually answers pains question about how he’ll save the ninja world, and even proves pain right in that the five great nations would always be at war or in silent conflict by the end of the series. In other words, Naruto fails to defeat pain ideologically which leads to some major problems as the story goes on, as Naruto fails to actually develop his ideology beyond pretty blind idealism. The antagonist is meant to prevent this by forcing the protagonist to evolve. Zabuza got Naruto to reject the ninja way of conforming to the brutality of their world. Pain should’ve got Naruto to completely abandon the idea of becoming hokage, and instead focus on becoming the child of prophecy. This seemed like the direction the plot was initially going in with jiraiya’s last words, pain literally destroying the village, and Naruto learning sage mode but kishimoto just abandons the idea and has everything go back to normal. This leads to point 3.
3. The villians actions need to create consequences. Another reason why the pain arc was disappointing was because practically nothing of consequence happened. Everyone in the village gets magically revived by pain and the only person who actually dies is jiraiya. This is especially bad because Kakashi had an entire death scene where he meets his father in the afterlife but comes back like nothing happened. It completely breaks the tension of the story ruining your readers expectations. This also helps establish the effect of the villain on the protagonist, as they have to reconcile the harm caused by the villain. Mahito in JJK does a really good job of this. Killing Nanami made Yuji genuinely crash out and my only criticism is that nobara should’ve stayed dead. It was a perfect way to shock the audience, develop Yuji, and get rid of characters who wouldn’t have plot relevance. The villain cleans up and develops the cast over time. They are tools and use them appropriately to develop the plot you want, and don’t go back on it after you commit to it.
4. Fourthly, a villians motivation needs to make sense within the context of the world they live in. The same goes for their backstories and I’ll use to examples to illustrate this. Firstly, we have orochimaru from Naruto. Orochimaru’s main goal was to achieve immortality but his method of getting there was stupid. His plan seemed to almost exclusively revolve around body hopping after his previous host died. He would (vaguely?) solve this by taking sasuke’s body but just having the sharingan doesn’t make you immortal. His whole plan essentially relies on him getting sasuke’s body only for it to decay and for him to never actually achieve immortality. It’s just vaguely alluded to that by having the sharingan he may achieve immortality. That’s a terrible motivation and seems even worse when you consider his backstory and fight with hiruzen. Orochimaru hated death after his parents died and feared it from the death of his first student (tsunade’s brother). Thus in his fight with hiruzen, hiruzen literally summons a god of death to take Orochimaru’s soul to permanently kill him. In this instance why not have Orochimaru seal this shinigami and attempt to absorb its powers over time to become truly immortal. Then having the sharingan would actually make sense as he would need it to control the shinigami’s powers with genjutsu or ocular prowess. Our second example is Aizen from bleach. Aizen is a great villain and his goal actually makes more sense than ichigo’s. Replacing the soul king could be considered a genuinely good thing when you consider how terrible the soul society is. The only caveat is that we never actually get to know why Aizen wants to do this. In his last moments before he’s sealed by urahara he seems to express genuine disgust at what the soul king is and represents but we never find out why or what exactly this motivation means. This isn’t necessarily bad but it leaves a lot on the table and sort of fails to answer Aizen’s ideological questions. Did Aizen truly want to replace the soul king due to a traumatic experience involving him or the soul society or was he simply an ambitious monster? We don’t know and it leaves his otherwise great character unfulfilled. Here we can see two characters, one with a great backstory that guides their otherwise bad motivations, and the other with a great motivation that lacks a backstory. If these were changed they could very easily become more complex and sensible characters in the context of their world with reasonable goals that the protagonist had to challenge in a reasonable manner. This leads into point 5.
5. Lastly, a villain should be used to develop the world. The villains backstory, powers, and character can all be used to build your world beyond the main plot and even introduce new plots. One reason zabuza kind of disappointed me was because his and haku’s backstory strongly hinted that Naruto would eventually challenge the tyrant of the water village, yagura. Instead he never did and world building was left on the table to just rot over the course of the story. One piece does a great job of avoiding this by often having an arc revolve around a location and what a villain is doing to it. Crocodile to alabasta, Doflamingo to Dresrossa, and kaido to Wano are all great examples of how a villain affects the world around them and how their backstory’s inflict that development. Don’t waste your villians! Use them to develop your protagonist and the world itself.
Wow I love a lot your points
I want to make a comment regarding Orochimaru. Take this from a casual early Naruto and early Shippuden watcher. The main Orochimaru want sharingan because it could accelerate his process achieving immortality because sharingan could easily copy jutsus, beside other of its benefit. Sharingan only compatible and could be utilized to it's max only in an Uchiha body, that's why he want to use their body and not transplant a Sharingan into his own body. So he want Sharingan to copy all jutsu and with that knowledge he could achieve immortality easier. Also it could turn into a Rinnegan which have the power of elemental mastery, the paths, etc. That's why he also seeks it. Seems like a viable plan for me.
Aizen had narcissistic qualities, and looked down upon everyone. His dialogues make it pretty clear that he didn't want to be ruled by something that he thought was inferior to him.
saw the artist post this and mention it was a daffy vid. i've been looking out for this one!
Sojo was a great 1st villain definitely top 5 he made the protagonist accept the philosophy he has of the protagonist's own father as being just as right as his own's and Sojo also almost ended the series 😂
The elite forces keep dying because the Traitor is the one creating the teams 🤣
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it isnt takoyaki its actually dango (more specifically hanami dango) which is generally had at tea time
KAGURABACHI MENTIONED LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Great video ! feel nice to see some love for Kagurabachi !
Yo, what's up with new gen villains in anime hanging in playgrounds first, the jjk guys? Now, this seriously, we went from evil castles to chilling in the park 😂😂😂😂
bro’s doing tricks on it
Quick correction: sojo and chihiro ate dango in round 2
Great video
I like Toji because he is a character that appears as an 'outcast' from the power-system of the world. He defeated the pinnacle of Jujutsu through his muscles and wits alone. That being said I'm also a big fan of Rock Lee, Maki etc. I just like characters lile that.
The thing that I love about sojo is the same thing I love about uvogin from hxh he might be gone but i kind of don't miss him because in a sick and twisted way it feels as if he is still with us because everything he represented still stands strong
His character dynamic with Chihiro and his beliefs about people like Kunishige especially stand strong now that we’re learning about the crimes of the blade wielders and kunishige
I just picked up the first vol of Kagurabachi I saw it at Barnes&Nobles and instantly grabbed it I only saw one copy
damn putting a clip of fan edits and art with no credits is CRAZY/
This Thumbnail 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Huh
Hey
( sojo on the beat yo)
SOOOOJOOOOOOOOOO
Case in point: Chapter 58.1
YOOOOO
Ok
I can’t see the panel at 4:44 without thinking of the 🏳️🌈? edits lmao
What exactly is genetic to y’all? Tell me.
The hype is real folks 🔥🔥🔥