This ought to be fun and seperate the men from the boys in regards to the last option.
A fun game for Sunday after this weird week, inspired by a crazy ski masked rapper and a livestream I watched yesterday
I'll put 3 categories of villain for you to choose from, and also note I said favourite not greatest so you can't hide behind killcount, effectiveness or effect they still had on society now. In rising spiciness, the choices are:
Favourite gaming villain
Favourite media villain so can be anime or western media
Favourite historical villain
And since I suggested it I'll go first:
Gaming villain: Kane from C&C franchise, he was a mastermind with style and in the 3rd game played EVERYONE to win in the end
Media Villain: Demiurge from Overlord series, despite putting himself as number 2 behind the MC, the actual mastermind of the series, from 'happy farms' to his 'majestic weapon', you want evil look this guy up
Historical villain: I could be a wuss and say Vlad the Impaler or someone similar but let's go with someone very spicy, Shiro Ishii. Why him? Because after ALL the atrocities he committed for his 'scientific experiments' in Unit 731, he not only got away with it after the war but got military medals for it, pardoned and paid $200k by the Americans in exchange for his research and is responsible for a lot of the true vaccines we use today.
So anyone want to play?
Maybe with the success of Kaguya Sama: Love is War, his previous work might get what I like to call 'the Fruits Basket treatment'
I swear though, all these Japanese authors switching up a lot, they either did dark stuff then went lighter or reverse or did doujins then manga or the reverse! Very interesting selecting an author and checking their previous works lol.
Instant Bullet wasn't nearly big enough to get the Fruits Basket treatment, unfortunately. And with him retiring, its even less likely to see a second attempt.
And generally, I always check an author's entire catalogue if I can. I've found a lot of favorites that way. Dead Tube, my guiltiest pleasure, I found through one called Scumbag Loser. Same with Instant Bullet here. Though ironically its much more similar to Kaguya than you'd expect given what I said. The entire "gang" he assembles is basically the Student Council in broad strokes, showing that his ideas were always great just needing more time to develop.