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There tends to be a range of flavors of awful these characters come in, from mildly otiose like bland white bread that ultimately doesn’t bring much to the table on its own, to absolutely deplorable characters leaving a rancid taste in one’s mouth worse than a meal of cat pee-soaked durian and rotting balut. Whatever the flavor of personality, these characters don’t exactly deserve much praise or sympathy. Rather, they deserve more negative recognition in general.
1) Kazuya Kinoshita from Rent-a-Girlfriend
The main character from an anime titled Rent-a-Girlfriend is pretty much what you’d expect. Kazuya Kinoshita is a maidenless loser. While he had previously held a personal record of having a girlfriend for one whole month, she eventually dumped him. Out of desperation, Kazuya resorts to renting a girlfriend. And, as one could guess, things go awry as Kazuya tries to force the farce and his expectations to be more than what it painfully, plainly is from the start, and his rental girlfriend, Chizuru Ichinose, tries to keep her gig a secret.
As much as Kazuya is expectedly an idiot for choosing a resolution that will obviously not actually solve his issue, he’s just kind of even more of a fool for continually thinking that such a poorly thought-out plan could continue without causing more and more problems.
2) Rudeus Greyrat from Mushoku Tensei
Awful. Irredeemably, unfathomably awful. The plot may tease redeemability, but no. Rudeus has somehow been given a second chance despite already living his first life as a horribly irredeemable person, and still constantly chooses to be an absolutely deplorable human being throughout his second.
It would be one thing if he made relatable mistakes that he’d eventually actually feel guilt for and learn to try to rectify, but he consistently makes horrible choices that would realistically otherwise provide consequences such as not only being rightfully ostracized, but deserving of life in prison with the other prisoners inevitably being disgusted themselves to the point of ending the life of such an outlandish degenerate, to put it nicely.
3) Kokoro from Darling in the Franxx
Kokoro is a character who is sneaky with her feigned meekness shrouding her culpability. While many place the blame on Futoshi for supposedly pressuring Kokoro into promising perpetual partnership, Kokoro is at fault for not voicing her doubts and leading him on. After all, teamwork requires proper communication, even when, or especially when, that partnership faces conflicting interests.
As Futoshi’s original partner, Kokoro neglected her responsibility to properly talk to Futoshi as an equal about her true feelings towards someone else. Even though her feelings for Mitsuru seem to come out of nowhere for even the audience, it’s even more of a shock to poor Futoshi to suddenly be dropped not just in his relationship to his partner, but to have his lifelong purpose as a Parasite be flipped upside down.
4) Nina from Berserk
Although there are probably not many in the fanbase who would defend her in the first place (especially since the 2016 adaptation doesn’t exactly have many fans anyway), Nina pretty much deserves all the negative recognition. Nina’s actions, despite her meek, pathetic personality, had only proven to be entirely two-faced and foolish.
At first, Nina seems like a wretched soul who’d been given an unfortunate lot in life as a prostitute who can’t be with the one who loves her unless he’s willing to make certain sacrifices. This turns out to be much more literal than he presumed she initially meant as she doesn’t hesitate to lead him to his demise by the cult she’s part of. Nina is incredibly selfish and cowardly and her personality, like her physical condition, stagnates in a useless cycle that only perpetuates her degrading state.
5) Mari Iscariot from Rebuild of Evangelion
As another character who probably already has quite a bit of hate, she deserves even more, frankly. Her character serves no purpose in the Rebuild film series but to dismantle all the intricate lore and complex character relationships Anno had originally built up as core fundamental pillars holding the entire plot together.
Having deep, spiritual connections with the Eva because they hold very particular secrets as to what they are, how they function, and why sync ratios are incredibly important? Nah, Mari treats them like disposable toys. Just like her relationships with everyone else. Disposable. Even with Shinji. A conclusion with her as somehow important to Shinji’s character development should definitely not be considered “heartwarming” when Mari herself is a disposable character.
