#since he also says that utsuro and the voids were born evil

[review-anon]

As someone who actually still likes Kanade to an extent (mainly due to ond memories of roleplaying as a very ooc version of her with friends when i was younger) the part i dislike about her the most has to be Linuj saying that she is evil no matter what.

I think i hate the "Born evil" trope just as much as Bubbles hates Chapter 3s, it's just such a lame way to write vilains and almost always results in them being 2 dimensional hate sinks that would have been so much more enjoyable if they weren't written to be flat as a piece of cardboard. A quick example that comes to mind for me is Stella from Helluva boss where i genuinely feel like the Stolas family drama would have benefited immensely from her being an actual character and not just an all around stupid awful woman with no redeeming qualities that exists just to make the audience see him as nothing but the poor little guy in comparison.

And depending on the scenario is just flat out unrealistic since no one comes out of the womb being the spawn of satan, there's always something, be it their upbringing, something actually reasonable or small and petty, that makes someone start being a piece of shit. Kanade's awfulness could have been used as a way to show how abuse from a loved one twists and shaped the kind of person she became, but instead Linuj came in and went "Oh Kanade? Nah, she would be a bitchass yandere no matter what" and that's just really dissapointing.

//The best argument for someone to be born evil is that they have certain genes that makes them more malicious and evil. Of course in a normal setting this is unrealistic but in more fanastical setting its normally possessing corruptive elements or just not possessing any positive emotions whatsoever. Or the best one is someone who is born fated to be evil, tries to prevent themselves from going bad but fate just drags them to be evil.

//Unfortunately most of the time born evil is done to create hate sinks you have no issue despising or wanting to kill a thousand ways under the sun. Unlike say fridging which is a objectively bad trope which can never be done well, I do believe you CAN pull off the born evil trope well if done correctly, but as always its mostly done incorrectly.

//Again Kanade being born evil is typical LINUJ cynicism at play, but unlike some of the other ones, I find this one harder to ignore given how early Kanade started to kill, as to ignore it would be to rewrite massive parts of Another canon, and then you could argue you are doing a AU. Really the real blame is LINUJ wanting to do a Korekiyo clone and not know what went into him in the first place.

//Trying to write Kanade as not a serial killer and call it canon has the same energy as pretending Chapter 0 didn't exist. Of course you could have it so the abuse of Hibiki warped Kanade into someone twisted, and that could still work. But sadly having Kanade go through a redemption arc is not canonically possible. And really you could argue Kanade is bound by fate to be evil.

//In fact I see all of the Another cast with massive chains on their necks forcing them down certain paths and if an outsider tries to meddle, massive consequences occur. But yeah it is not fun that we cannot even entertain the possibility of Kanade possibly being a good person since LINUJ said absoluately not.

//Kanade isn't just boring because she's born evil, she's boring because she's a carboard copy of Korekiyo and a even poorer verison of him.