Protagonist is more evil than any of the villains

>protagonist is more evil than any of the villains
Why is this the best type of protagonist?

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Cuz he usually shows no mercy and is more straightforward with his emotions.

which leads to more interesting and complex character development

But it's not shounen, therefore Yas Forums ain't interested to make hate threads about it.

theres been a decent amount of hellsing threads, as of late. i approve

He also don't hesitate with killing his enemies or make dramatic speeches so his enemies can escape/injure his allies or get a second chance

Yup, absolutely hate that cliche...

>it's more complex if the character is more straightforward
There's no hard rules to anything in writing, but you've really thrown it for a loop here.

Because it's nice to see cunts getting destroyed by some other cunt who just happens to be a lot stronger than them.
In Good Vs Evil stories there's always this debate with the good guy about the validation of "might makes right" and stuff like that, when the villains get fucked by some other guy not because his right ideals and plotarmor but just because he's stronger it feels like poetic justice.

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as far as action anime is concerned, it's one of the best of the last 15 years

season 3 never ever

No please don't say that. We will have season 3, everything will be fine.

you've missed the point
it's more complex if the character goes from being relatively straightforward to being actually complex and having depth

this land is cursed

>it's more complex if the character is complex
We've got a four-digit IQ over here.

precisely

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It more simple than that.
Unlike hero there's no sterotype recipe to make a "villain protagonist", you can do anything and it will be (mostly) original.
People crave originality but market driven company will rarely risk that. For every new original story there's 20 school setting hero. Worse, they now those model to be so predictable they'll transform original stuff into their known recipe.

>Next Van Hellsing will happen in a school
>all character will now look like they are less 15y old
>panty shot every 20s
>every female character are now moe little girl
>beach episode
>4 seasons

why hasn't Japan copied the successful American trope of morally grey protagonist to a greater extent? Shows like Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, or even Justified show that it can be successful both artistically and commercially

The US have a long tradition in gangster-hero kind of characters.

Japan has something similar with ronin. Not usually morally grey by Western standards, but grey by Japan's "obey authority" standards

I swore I had a VirginChad meme about antiheros

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Who, Alucard? What? The Nazis did way more evil things in Hellsing. Alucard barely killed anyone innocent at all. Even the Catholics were narratively more evil in Hellsing.

like Sword of Doom?

American didn't invent morally grey heroes. And you are comparing two medium with very different public.

The problem with anime is that character come in only 2 flavors:
1) audience surrogate, typically male, at school, public target
2) the rest, filled with either sexy girls or not worth mentioning

Alucard isn’t truly evil in the sense he’s following his nature, makes attempts to warn others about getting in his way, and retains a moral compass enough to follow the protagonists and their goals close enough despite having very little reasoning that isn’t personal to do so.

Alucard also ate millions of people, including his own soldiers, before the series began. He also killed those police, who were just pawns of vampires, brutally and unnecessarily.

He put fear into both of those evil forces because of how evil HE was. That should give you some idea.

Because it frees you from unimaginative restraints of black and white morality.

>American didn't invent morally grey heroes.
I never said they did. But they certainly popularized them to a greater extent in the modern era.

Allucard is a "bad guy" that works for a "good" organization.

Shut up, Yas Forums losers

>If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
Alucard is evil.