Kaname Asagiri

Kaname Asagiri is a major antagonist of the psychological horror magical girl manga, Magical Girl Site along with its anime adaption, as the secondary antagonist. He is introduced as a cruel and callous brother of Aya Asagiri, the manga's main protagonist.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) He's a rip off of Light Yagami and Lelouch Vi Brittania, who also have pretty childish motivations.
 * 2) There is no proper reason for him to exist along with Aya's bullies since it's a magical girl manga and mainly showing misfortune could happen to anyone. He only existed to give Aya some dramatic tension surrounding her misfortune.
 * 3) He regularly beat Aya in pain as an outlet for stress relief.
 * 4) He is like a misanthropic-monologuing saint towards his cruelty to Aya and hatred towards his father, who wishes he's dead to him.
 * 5) Kaname seems to care about himself and loving her mother as he does not want her to be killed.
 * 6) Despite being unlikable, Kaname gets more screen time in both the manga and the anime and he doesn't get punished for his actions in the rest of the entire story.
 * 7) He's selfish cruel teenager who punches Aya to the stomach and chokes her to relieve his stress from his father's "expectations".
 * 8) Kaname is an insufferable human being who is cruel towards Aya as we see him punched Aya and choke her til she is better off dead. This time, we see him text Aya to come home and help him relieve his stress.
 * 9) He has a poorly written backstory where he was abused by his father, who pressured him to study, if Kaname fails he will hit him, which is the source of his sadistic complex nature.
 * 10) After being abused from his father, this left Kaname to be consumed by hatred from him and considers all humans as "scums" (an epitome of a scum that only validate their own lives through others like his father, who Kaname think to him as a type of scum that don't deserve to live), and full of "brainless meatbags". But of course, just thinks he's not human and maybe a god trapped in his human body.
 * 11) He is shown how his cruelty and arrogance is related to his father's verbal abuse, but thinks that it is wrong to hit someone like and wants to see his abusive father in pain, despite the external performance of being his "father's boy" who "is on top of his grades and needs to be taken to college".
 * 12) His goals don't make any sense when he wants to steal all the magic sticks and nothing else, making his plans very meaningless just as his childish motivations.
 * 13) He stolen Nijimi's panties, and he loves to abuse them, but he uses Nijimi to steal the magic sticks.
 * 14) He is very rubbish than his father, Sarina with her friends, the King and the Site Administrators, but is barely shown to stalk Aya then he just suddenly changes from doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, to just randomly turning evil despite him having no build up character development or any motivation for his actions whatsoever.
 * 15) He's becomes even more unlikeable when Kaname threatened Keisuke Naoto to suicide and killed Nijimi in self defense, since that he never gets punished.
 * 16) After being slashed to the throat by Nijimi, He starts crawling, and monologues how he is not going to lose against Aya and the girls, but thinks god is always on my side since he was born, and never abandoned him before, not once thus proves he is the chosen one, a god himself.
 * 17) While acting out of character, Aya tries telling Kaname to open his eyes so nobody will be happy even if he keeps doing this and she questions what is the point of doing all of this and making everyone sad. Kaname doesn't care about her for disobeying him and seems like Aya don't have enough from him, once he proceeds to continue having Aya as a stress reliever.
 * 18) After being freed from Kichiro, taken to a hospital, and returning home to find out his father used the panties, he tells Aya that the world will end in 10 days since his father died of lifespan and thinks that he would start living his own life without him since Nana thinks he important and even saved his life. And doesn't apologized for Njimi's death.Screen Shot 2020-09-18 at 4.54.12 PM.png
 * 19) He acts like a creep towards Aya and the rest of the characters.
 * 20) He is very prone to mental outbursts towards his father, whom he describes him as the "king of losers", due to his abusive relationship and his "high expectations" . He hates his father so much, that Kaname wishes that he was dead to him:Screen Shot 2020-09-18 at 4.54.24 PM.png
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 * 22) *After his father died of the lifespan while he was using Nijimi's panties, he beaten his father for all the pain he caused him and tries to take the panties for himself until Aya teleport it away (so he won't do anything bad). In the hospital after his father truly died, Kaname feels like he over his father's death and taunts Aya that Kaname's father wasn't her actual father. After all this time, Kaname thinks Aya really had no idea that she and Kaname weren't related to each other, no matter how neither he or his father ever treated you like a family, and thought it's "hilarious".
 * 23) * Since he showed no remorsed over his father's death, Kaname guess his mother did very sincerely as a good parent to Aya. But, thinks God knows what goes through her mother's mind when she even feels love for her husband. Aya tried to leave, but Kaname taunts her again about not being his real family and Tsuyuno Yatsumura's demise nor her friends.
 * 24) When he was aware about Tempest happening in 10 days ever since his abusive father died, he thought he could finally start living my own life and considers everything "sucks".
 * 25) He doesn't care if he's a liar evil or unremorseful since Aya wanted him to realize all the cruel things he's done and wanted him to be happy. As much as he's like it or not, Kaname feels very "sorry" for killing Nijimi and can't have Aya just that one slide. In response, Aya took his lifespan to make sure he doesnt use a stick for his evil anymore if he uses it one more time, he wont have no lifespan left. Much to this, his abusive treatment to Aya, to anyone, she will never forgive Kaname. And she revealed that Aya was protecting him. #Much to Kaname's confusion, Aya wanted him to realized his father's rigorous education, everyday. Aya knew this would consumed him into a sadistic insufferable torturer but she cared about him being essential to the family, and that if Kaname gave up, the family would come crumbling down. If Aya vanished, Kaname would never care about her and should have ended up breaking down along with their familly falling apart. As he realized that Aya was protecting him, Kaname yelled at her for daring to feel pity for him and wants her to stop looking at him and wants HER to realized that he and Aya were not family and have no reason for her to protect him.
 * 26) In the second half of the manga, he is still unlikeable when he joins Aya and her group to stop the site admins that's because he is only unheroic. Since so, Kaname is still useless and is unable to use a magic stick since Aya took his lifespan from him.
 * 27) IDIOT MOVE: Kaname uses Nijimi's panties in order to steal the magical girls' magic sticks and nothing else. Then ,he kills Nijimi in self defense. After being hospitalized, confronted by site admin Nana, and had to go home, He tried to warn his father about the site admins attacking, but punches him, ignorantly. Because he wanted Kaname to continue studying by using Nijimi's panties. In a battle between the King, He used a teddy bear magic stick to destroy but it doesn't work when she revealed that he lost his manhood when he was sodomized by Detective Kichiro Misumi.
 * 28) The series expects readers and tv viewers to "sympathize" with Kaname since he was abused by his father, but the fact he wanted to use Aya to help him relieve his stress, stealing magic sticks, and nothing else.
 * 29) He wasted the voice talent of Nobuhiko Okamoto who voiced Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia.

Redeeming Qualities:

 * 1) He later does get punished by his father for leaving him a month while he was trying to steal magic sticks.
 * 2) He did have a little character development.
 * 3) His voice acting is good while his voice comes off as annoying and unsettling.
 * 4) His character design is good.
 * 5) He does help Aya by using Nijimi's panties (for all the terrible things he's done).Thanks to Nijimi's stick, Kaname did cast Aya back to the past so that she would not be misfortunate again.
 * 6) He became better in the final chapter, since he became a more thoughtful and genuinely kind boy as he got over his father's high expectations and abuse. He even went to the beach with Aya and her friends as well, which means that his relationship with his adopted sister started to improve.

Trivia:

 * He is presumed to be the most the most evil of Magical Girl Site.
 * Kaname can be compared to Light Yagami, the main protagonist and villain of Death Note.
 * His method of trying to bring peace and justice to the world by using the "Death Note" comes off as acting like a childish, arrogant, heartless, and insecure jerk. Which really gets old and annoying whenever he's boasting about being a savior to the world. While Kaname's method was to bring pain and suffering towards Aya and the others by using the Magical Girl Site and it's magic sticks as his deeds. Like Light, Kaname is much like him as a jerk, who is boasting himself like a scumbag human being he is to the world.
 * He comes off as a very pathetic egotist. Even though his plan in the beginning was to rid the world of crime and injustice, it slowly changes into to not wanting to get caught by the authorities, and to be worshiped as a god. As Kaname, his plans don't make sense and unclear where he wants to steal the magic sticks and nothing else.
 * Speaking of being an egotist, he has such overwhelming pride in himself and his intentions, that he'd even go as far as to kill anyone who calls his actions wrong or evil, just like how Kaname wanted to kill his father for abusing him and making his life miserable.
 * His sense of justice and peace is heavily contradicted by his long list of murders, and his willingness to kill his family members if they became liability, but only backs out because of the scrutiny it would draw. Thus, it just makes him what Near states he truly is: Nothing more and nothing less than a crazy serial killer just like what Kaname had become. But unlike Light's sense of justice and peace, Kaname only has the sense of pain and suffering and he cares much of being a "God".
 * His sadistic and murder nature also makes him lose a lot of sympathy, as the same as Kaname, whom unlike Light, shows no remorse in killing Nijimi Anazawa and Keisuke Naoto, but lacks a lot of sympathy than Light ever was. Like when he killed Naomi Misora by using the "Death Note" to make her commit suicide, and the way he tells her he's Kira and taunting her afterwards is very unsettling. But, Kaname uses Nijimi's panties to control Keisuke and commit suicide just to show how much a friend he is and taunting him afterwards, very unsettling.
 * As the series progresses, he loses a lot of empathy and regard for everyone around him, especially his family. He hardly even cared that his father died. Unlike Kaname, He has nothing with him compared to Light (except for his mother caring about him). He hardly never cared about his father because of said abuse, and he wished he is dead and doesn't deserve to live.
 * Even though he does a good job at concealing his identity the same way Kaname concealed his nature towards his parents and others, it's very easy to guess he's Kira based on his personality.
 * As the series progresses, he lets his ego inflate so heavily that he caught off guard, which led to his demise six years later after pulling a dumb mistake by letting Mikami hide the Death Note in a bank deposit box.
 * Manipulated Misa, who had a huge crush on Light. (Although she didn't seem to mind), just like how Kaname manipulated Nijimi, who also has a crush on him, too. But, tricks her into using her magic stick and forced her to steal magic sticks on Aya and the others.
 * They both have families. Kaname has a family that is secretly dysfunctional and sometimes uncaring, while Light does not.

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