>>719023829
You only continue to prove me right.

Bot thread, but Tanjiro is pretty much every bad fake-modest preachy moralfag Japanese protagonists ever. I remember reading what Araki has to say about characters like him from his book "Manga in Theory and Practice"
>WHAT MAKES A GOOD MOTIVATION
>Your characters' motivations have to gain the interest and empathy of your readers. A good motivation is one that makes the reader wonder what will happen to that character, and what that character will do, because then the reader will want to keep reading.
>What you have to realize, in the instance of shonen manga magazines, is that those motivations will always be attuned with the readers natural sense of ethics. The three principles of Shonen Jump are friendship, effort, and victory. Likewise, shonen manga readers will strongly empathize with what they feel is good and right, and will reject that which they feel is unethical.
>Because of this, characters such as Death Note's Light Yagami, who kills again and again—even if the targets of his assassinations are criminals themselves—requires skillful technique for the mangaka to win over the readers.
>On the reverse side, characters who are 100 percent virtuous can come across as fake and unlikable. To avoid this, you need to include in your main characters weaknesses or faults, or more human desires.
>Even if your main character's motives are well-defined, cowardly acts will still repulse your readers. This is mostly because cowardice is in direct opposition to the morality of your audience. Readers will never empathize with a gutless hero who sacrifices innocent bystanders to save his own life. Similarly, if your protagonist is in a tough situation because he blundered into it, your readers will judge the character as a fool and will only react with antipathy.

>>718116632
Why don't you tell me, anonymous?

>>715687456
Maybe for neo-nu-comics where they are all just political mouthpieces for the leftist editors, but plenty of older runs and many manga are written and illustrated by the same guy.

i liked it and I liked Burial At Sea.

>>713954325
fixed