Crayne

It's because people find it easy to hate the actual villains that are defined as the very source of evil/the greatest evil in this world. And also more easily brought into liking a "sudden plot twist" that reveals that the Greatest Evil was doing all the evil to protect the world, or so on. Hence, such characters are created. I don't think it is ridiculous.

But, I find it more ridiculous to have characters that are quite opposite to how they are described. I would have to take out one Shoujo manga I tried out, as an example. The main character was defined as "an odd person who collects poisons and is otherwise weird. He is shunned by all and is alone." Something along those lines, yet at the very beginning of the manga he is surrounded by people who adore him.

I just couldn't bring myself to say anything else besides "Wait wut?"

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