Because in the anime I watched when I was a child, the characters are clearly distinguished between good and evil, the protagonist represents justice, the villain represents evil, and the final ending must be that the protagonist defeats the villain.
When we were children playing anime characters, most of us also liked to play decent characters in anime, and imagined people we didn't like as villains and then defeated him.
But as the protagonists of decent characters, they must be doing everything right?
not necessarily!
01. The protagonist doesn't do it all right
The early "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf" and "Bear Haunting" content are basically for small audiences, as the original small audience gradually grows up, the content of these two works also began to appear different types, some suitable for large audiences, but also suitable for small audiences.
If you have seen the early contents of these two works, you will find that the decency in this is not particularly decent.
In "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf", the gray wolf wants to catch the sheep, and the happy sheep are the "weak side" and will use all kinds of wisdom to defeat the gray wolf, which is the main tone at the beginning of the story, but what about later?
Later, they found that the gray wolf was too dish, so they began to take the initiative to find stubble and bully the gray wolf, at this time, who is the "villain"?
Similarly, there is a similar plot in "Bear Haunting", Xiong Big Bear ii went to the bald head strong home many times to find stubble, eat him, drink him, but also beat him, lose the prize in the bald head strong, and then go, is this "decent"?
Obviously, even for works aimed at a small audience, it is impossible to achieve that all the things that the protagonist does are right, and those anime that face a large audience cannot guarantee that all the actions of the protagonist are correct.
02. The protagonist of both good and evil
In the past, the protagonists of anime were mostly slightly imperfect in a healthy atmosphere, but now, the protagonist simply starts from the villain and takes the road of the villain, so that the villain has no way to go.
Many people have different standards for good guys and bad guys.
If a person is defined as a good person, then he does a little bad thing, and this person becomes a "bad person" in people's eyes.
And if a person is defined as a bad person, then if you do a little good deed, people will feel that "this person doesn't seem to be so bad, am I mistaken for him?"
Tang monks have to go through 99981 difficulties to become Buddhas, while a demon can become a Buddha by putting down a butcher's knife, and this is the difference.
So most of the current anime protagonists are not very serious, and even mixed with some evil, so that the audience can't say that they are not good people, because they are not serious people, and when such people do some good things, the audience still applauds them.
As for those who have been doing good things from beginning to end, they will be called "hypocrites" because of some mistakes.
This is the mainstream view of anime characters by the current audience, bad people do good things, that is a "great gift", good people are wrong and wrong, then they have to be "punished by heaven".
epilogue
Whether it's anime for a small audience or an anime for a big audience, a character who belongs to the decent side doesn't mean that what he does is all right.
It is also because the evaluation criteria for a role are often single, resulting in many characters, do not dare to call themselves "decent", can only add some less serious settings, in order to get the recognition of most of the audience now.
Whether in anime or in reality, people increasingly do not believe that there are "selfless good people".