Speaking of hating things, let's hate some characters. Now, I'm not talking about characters that annoy you, or characters that aren't good or interesting, or characters that are really evil. Just characters that you personally loathe.
You know who I hate more than anyone? The one guy that really pisses me off?
This motherfucker right here.
Oh my god I hate him so much
Dio may have literally kicked puppies, Zouken might make worm monsters rape his family members to gain power, but Dojima, from the sixth episode of Hataraki Man, inspires rage in me like no one else. It's as much what he represents as what he does.
I mean, it's not just that he's a raging misogynist asshole. It's that everyone lets him get away with it. He can continually belittle the intelligence, competence, and character of his female coworkers, and when Matsuzaka (the show's female protagonist) calls him on it, she gets made out to be the bad guy. They're just jokes, right? And because one of her female colleagues plays along with him to stay under the radar, the two women turn on each other in a situation where all they have to do is work together. She sees Matsuzaka as a stick in the mud who doesn't know how to play the game. Matsuzaka sees her as a frivolous flirt. But all of their criticism of each other is just reflections of the shit this fucking Dojima guy says! It's all his fault, but everyone goes out of their way to blame anybody but him! His attitude isn't that out of line with social expectations, so someone else must be the problem!
And nothing happens to him! He just gets to keep being a prick! It's so unfair, because the institutions of the workplace should protect against it, but because it's seen as normal, nobody does anything, not even the victims of his harrassment. That kind of unfairness really gets under my skin.
No fate would be terrible enough for what he deserves.
Second place would be Hirukawa, the scumbag cop from Paranoia Agent.
Still like his character design, though. All the character designs in Paranoia Agent are pretty much unmatched in how cohesively they fit together, and how much they tell us about the type of person the character is.
It's less what he does, and more that I had trusted him to be a decent human being on some level, as I trust that all people are decent human beings on some level, and he betrayed that trust.
