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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Sitting in prison is also part of his plan (Patient Zero). But yeah, focusing on business part is also seen in his game designs like giving Gamedeus generic boss one-liners. Kuroto is certainly more talented and passionate in programming just that doesn't mean Masamune can't.

"Part of his plan" or not I still find it to all be a piece of incredibly lackluster writing, and does nothing to solve the heart of the problem: He's boring and he gets everything easy. Even if you wanna focus on programming, he's somehow able to program and reprogram the sorts of things in mere moments that takes Kuroto entire episodes, and this is long after it's been established that Kuroto is in all ways better at programming and game development than what Masamune is.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Personally, I love interesting villains, but they really aren't necessary for a good story and/or entertainment. And even more so, it is not necessary to empathize with them. There are those who are just nice to hate. Even a boring and banal villain can work if the story is hero-focused. The MCU will not let you lie here. Not to mention that there are shows like Blade where the villain is basically not needed.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Yeah, villains like Cronus and ZAIA work for me because they do take something real and rather than try and make it empathetic, they instead have it boosted to comically hilarious levels; which then goes on to motivate drama between other characters

Except that Empathy/Sympathy points isn't at all what En-chan was getting at. He was simply saying that in order for an antagonist to be engaging, he thinks they should also be interesting, of which he does not find Masamune to be.

And on a personal note, man, I friggen WISH I could find anything Masamune did to be at all funny or real. Dude was far too busy making me bored out of my mind whenever the plot contrivances weren't making me angry. He wasn't even needed to push the plot along either, given that up until the point he shows up, most of the focus was going towards Parado, Poppy, and the divide between Humans and Bugsters, which was far more interesting to me. Then Masamune shows up and that plot and character work is almost straight up abandoned outside of a few select scenes. Scenes of which Masamune has almost no influence on either, making him even more pointless.

Give me a Showa villain over Masamune any day. Way more fun to be had with them.