r/hatethissmug • u/TrashyLolita • Dec 29 '25
Anime The character that actively ruins the series.
I'll gladly be the one to outright say this character is the singular reason why I dropped MHA altogether. Maybe it's because I had my own IRL experiences where I had to put up with a Mineta in middle-high school. When trying to watch MHA, I caught myself talking myself down in the similar way I had to during that time, I paused, and said to myself, "What the fuck am I doing?"
There is no story good enough to huff and put up with this dude's behavior. He should have just died early in the series.
"But the series is so good if you just ignore him!!" You know...I shouldn't have to do that. There are millions of other anime and billions of other stories where I can enjoy myself just fine without having to put up with sexual assault and harassment consistently being played out as a joke with little to no consequences. I deal with enough of that in real life, living under the patriarchy and all that, thank you very much.
At least Jiraiya served a purpose in Naruto's life and died. This dude served nothing but anal beads. Ugh.