Thread:PrinceZarbon/@comment-15919363-20140608021023/@comment-1224793-20140826233742

The Dark Tournament saga is the best one in the show. The other sagas are maybe half as good. I personally like season 2 the most [dark tournament], followed by season 3 and season 1. season 4 was not as good as the rest for story purposes, but it was okay.

I don't consider Hiei an antagonist or even Kurama. Gouki was the only villain of the first part of the first season to me [just as Nappa was in DBZ]. Yeah, Hiei is probably my least favorite for the same reason Vegeta is. He's that same archetype that fits Wolverine, Vegeta, Vader, etc. the conflicted bada$$ who has an emotional struggle and joins with the protagonists.

Gama is my favorite character for his sacrifice for his comrades and the very fact that he died with honor instead of living and joining the protagonists. I also love the stuff he said, primarily:

"Tell me, demon traitor, what does the word "make-up" bring to mind? Human females no doubt; a little gloss to attract the next mate. Disgusting isn't it? The way humans manage to bastardize everything they touch."

I love and adore the vicious demons who are loyal to their race and their spirit as opposed to switching to help the "protagonists".

This, coupled with the means of going through anything necessary to win, is why I also love Roto, hence his usage of Kurama's weakness to destabilize him and resort to treachery to attain victory. Plus, his death was also phenomenal with the seed growing within and beautifully making his corpse a wonderful bed of roses. Hotness. Yup, Gama and Roto are my favorites. To the true demons all the way.

I liked Ichigaki too, but only because he had experimented on the M units and made them suffer and bleed from their eyes as an internal struggle of attempting to break free from his vicious stranglehold made him a better character as well. And, his turning himself into a monster was also brilliant [same as Dr. Cuvier in Batman Beyond and Professor MacDougal of Mighty Max, and Shou Tucker of Fullmetal Alchemist], each being my respective favorite from each universe. See, these are all reasons why he's a good character as opposed to being a brick wall like cell... True scientists will go through any means to obtain their scientific breakthrough, even sacrificing the ones they love. This is what makes them hot.

I haven't seen Rurouni Kenshin well enough to judge it. Stuff i hate includes yu-gi-oh, pokemon, digimon, and anything else that ends in "mon."