Is Ayanokouji the weakest character in the story right now?
When I say “weakest” I don’t mean in terms of strength and achievements. I mean in terms of narrative and character depth.
I’ve been reading CoTE since 2018 all the way back when Graze used to do fan translations, and in year 1 I really enjoyed Ayanokouji as a character because we didn’t know much about him (especially until volume 0), so there was mystery and intrigue to what he actually was.
But now we know and honestly it’s kind of boring. Even in all countless volumes we have gotten in almost a decade I think he probably had the least character growth
Also maybe it’s just me but back then I was in college and younger but now I’m older so the silent edgelord type character who uses everyone as his tools seems more cringe than badass to me nowdays
Another thing is I can’t really trust this dude with character relationships, cuz he hurts and ruins everyone who gets close to him. Not really happy about him going after Hiyori now cuz she definitely cannot fix him and she is gonna end up broken and fucked up just like Kei and Ichinose
I know this might be a hot take cuz a lot of people here tend to like Ayanokouji and honestly I like his character too, it’s not that I hate him, I just think Kinu could have done so many interesting things but the potential never really got fully explored. So I’m just disappointed