Best Anime Villain
Kyubey
For anyone who has read my blog is this really a surprise?
Kyubey, from Puella Magi Madoka Magica is my favorite villain far a few reasons. The first being that I don’t tend to watch a lot of shows with villains (I watch a lot of slice of life). The other being: Kyubey is a real bastard in the way the a corporate CEO or the devil is.
Kyubey offers an amazing deal to people (specifically, young teen girls) but will omit the details purposely to avoid sticky questions later. He chooses young girls not only for the emotional power benefits he’ll reap later, but also because critical decision making is not at their height at this age. When Madoka stalls, he pushes her often with statements like:”You could help them if you agree to become a magical girl”. He is knowingly manipulating her emotions to get her commit.
When confronted with the magical girls horror and disillusionment of what has happened to them, he feigns innocence and rationalization.
Making a contract with Kyubey is very much like signing a contract with the devil: you may get what you want initially but eventually you’ll have to pay and it’s all laid out in the fine print (which no one ever reads).
That is why Kyubey is my favorite villain. Soulless, cute, psychotically logical.
Until next time: Happy viewing!
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Kyubey was awesome. I really like logical villains who aren’t so much trying to be evil but are just accomplishing a goal in a way that others perceive as evil. Plus, he was kind of adorable. That and I loved that he was pretty much unkillable.
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Yes. That’s what made him so great. He was just doing his job and had a rational explanation and justification for everything he was doing. He just couldn’t understand why people would be upset by what he was doing.
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I loved his reaction when Madoka threw Sayaka’s soul off the bridge. It was just so perfect like the horror of the situation had never even occurred to him.
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That was a good moment. It still had that: “why would you do that? didn’t you read the fine print?” feel to it. Which makes him so fun as a villain.
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My daughter got the cutest Kyubey throw for Christmas. She put it on her bed, to which my husband told her she’d have no soul by morning! LOL Fortunately, her soul is still in tact.
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Ha! Nice!
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