Tuesday, August 26, 2025

What's wrong with killing characters in an anime or manga series? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! Having a character die in a story can be an emotional and impactful story tool. However, at some point it becomes a problem. This is usually when a lot of important characters die. Sometimes it makes sense for the story, and sometimes it just angers the fans. There has to be a limit. A good example of this is Naruto. But first, here's a spoiler warning! So don't keep reading if you haven't finished at least Naruto Shippuden. Now then, let's get on with it. Those of you who have finished this already know what example I'm about to use. That, is the Akatsuki. Even though it was a powerful and important organization, they ended up killing off all of them. No one escaped, and it was ridiculous. Even if they were good people, somehow they still deserved to die just because they were supposedly the "villains" of the story. Regardless of their motivations, they all died. This is a horrible way to tell a story, and a lot of fans lost interest after this happened. The death of a character should be absolutely necessary, because people are attached to this person regardless of if they're real or not. And killing them just for the sake of it only drives fans away; and it ruins the enjoyment of the entire series. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

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