★Kingdom★Burning★Down★

One character, lol.

In no order:

Johan! Jim and O'Brien! Kenzan! Manjoume!

I liked all of these dudes who were ridiculously competent while everyone else was being fucking ridiculous! Johan probably doesn’t fall into that category but, boy character with blue hair voiced by a woman is like instant arrow to the heel for me. I love how instantly he connected with Judai, I think that was really positive for Judai as a person and as a character, if I can be permitted to speak about him from both an in-universe and a watching a TV show perspective. Hahaha. I love his ruffles, I love all his damn rainbows. He’s sweet and tries real hard, I like him very much. I like him and Judai as a thing A Lot. Judai gets like an honorary fave spot when attached to Johan (and Yubel, that’s in there too).

The number of times that everyone else was standing around like I don’t know what are we going to do now and O'Brien was just like “we’re going to do this, except by we I mean me, and by going to I mean it’s already done, let’s go” are just like 💚. Sir, thank you for being the only person with a functional brain on screen at any given point in time. Other people like I don’t know how we’re going to handle this this man is being dangled over a death trap and O'Brien is just like maybe we can stop playing card games and fix the problem. O'Brien single-handedly saved anime this is a real fact. I think you are in the middle of watching him get really cool character development! He is criminally underrated. I think we all know why… I love him I think he’s great - he is so fun to draw and just Real Good.

Jim just like, hey I’ve got a conspicuous eyepatch and also a crocodile. I’ve named her Karen. He says things in the most outrageous English I’ve ever heard and it is like absolutely unreproducible by anybody else. Like many of the characters in the show I absolutely do not believe that he is the age that they say he is but he’s so good.

Kenzan is just like such a genuine dude??? His backstory is so fucking ridiculous? Most of him is ridiculous? But in a way that kind of makes him endearing? He’s so often ends up in situations where he is the guy doing the competent normal reaction stuff and it’s like how is the dude with a fossilized Triceratops bone in his leg like the person with the most normal reaction? Also good to draw, love his hair also. I loved the way they translated his weird dinosaur speech pattern in the subtitles. He just looks like he should be a much more serious dude than he is but he’s kind of chill and fun. What a nice guy.

MANJOUME, what a fucking dumpster fire of a person I love him. I did not like him at all until they decided to send him to the Arctic. Then they drag them through the trash and rode him around in the dirt and he came back as like just the right kind of bitchy drama queen for me. One of the duels that I was not bored to Tears by in the show was him using an entire Deck full of garbage stuff with zero attack points I thought that figuring out a good way to use that was so much more interesting than the usual Yu-Gi-Oh approach of I just summon a bigger stronger thing than you did. I love him literally embracing being garbage. I love that there’s like a weird insecurity thing going on underneath all of that. I love that he adopted all the garbage monsters. I love that he’s just a wreck of a human being, wow, so good. Love that all it took for me to love this guy was for someone to kick him off the pedestal and like stomp him into the dirt for a minute. Manjoume Thunder is what is UP.