#azudora

[superpatch24]

Character’s designs for Helck’s anime by Studio Satelight, airing on July 2023.

Helck, Vermilio and Azudra.

[seikyoko]

Hi....How are you? After reading your post, can I ask the rest of your top 20 of top 30 fav characters?... Feel free if you want to write the reasons or not why you like them.....(sorry for asking almost the same ask like someone before this)....Thanks a lot for your blog...love reading them.....🥰🤩

I know this isn't much of an excuse but I straight up forgot I had this ask. I'm really, really sorry

NOW ONTO THE CONTINUATION OF MY TOP 30 CHARAS (this is my top 10 ) I'm dividing this into two posts

PART 1 - PART 2 - PART 3

11) The whole damn cast of Beelzebub

There are "two/three chara's braincells are allergic to the other's " and there is the utter dumbassery energy field that is this mess. The reason I spent so much time answering this was initially bec I tried really hard to pick a fave among them, yet even picking my top 5 Beelzebub charas among the rest was like asking a mother which child to kill off. The entire manga was so wild I couldn't believe what I was reading with my own two eyes and I wish I could say that iwas because of an epic mastermind or some complex conflict but it was because each chara was so off their rocker it degenerated into something insane. Even if no demon chara whatsoever appeared the human high-school charas would have done Something (TM) or several Somethings that would leave me on the floor laughing increduously.

12) Lloyd Forger (Spy x Family)

He's cool, hot, he drink his respect women juice, he's a kind and moral and caring person, I love the moments he get unlucky. he's an amazing father and has been doing amazing at it despite it having happened because he scrambled to adopt a kid after a mission requested it out of the blue and not having much of an idea on how to go about it. He did fuck up with Anya several times (like how he was too harsh on her about her education in order to complete his mission) but he learn from it, apologize, and do better by her and prioritize her well-being and happiness despite that being in the way of his mission, his interactions with Yor are very cute, and his spy feats being cool af are a nice bonus

13) Leorio Paladknight (Hunter X Hunter)

I love him, he's so kind, ressourceful, and utterly shameless about what he seeks. He states "I want money" without any kind of pretentiousness or fancy-talk, because even if it was all there was to it, seeking a more comfortable living for yourself isn't anything to be ashamed by, and he doesn't owe them the information of his tragic backstory. But also because the whole yapping about honor and "not being swayed or greedy for money" is hella annoying for someone all too aware of how even the most basic of necessities like food, shelter, clothes or a child receiving cure for a mortal disease depends on money. I really like that about his character

He's an incredibly compassionate human being, he said in live TV he spent the summer "jerking off" then got self-conscious about what he said immediately and said"forget about it".

He's a beyond amazing friend and that sometimes lead to stuff like being involved in a revenge quest against the Phantom, flipping off Chrollo while knowing what he is and what he's capable of and yelling at him "you want a piece of me ?", punching Ging on live TV and running for president and telling his audience he'd basically just mobilize the Hunter Association to heal his friend. And they voted for him anyways, because they had taste (and also because of the Ging-punching euphoria, but once again, it was because they had taste).

He didn't know jack shit about nen in York New then re-appeared in Election arc with a teleporting punch of all thing which sparked all kind of hilarous headcanon of what Leorio's teacher must have thought about the whole thing/having a good laugh about what he'd teach Leorio

14)Fujishiro Nageki (Hatoful Boyfriend)

No words are needed.

15) Light Yagami (Death Note)

Don't have much to say other than "Utter buffoon", the whole Death Note anime was a ride, even simple potato-chips eating moments, and he spent every single second of it clowning on himself. He should have been number one of this goddamn fave list.

16) Rina Song (Surviving Romance)

My beloved, My sweetie. Overpowered high-school girl who just want to pursue romance, except stuck on a zombie apocalypse with a mostly female cast. Extremely good and supportive friend when you happen to win her over, keep her goddamn promises, called Min-woo "my little pop rock" with a straight face. Her friendship with Chaerin is something I'd obsess over until the end of the universe, no, probably even after that.

I loved the whole damn chapter 47 where the one thing that contrast the creepiness of the whole thing is Rina Song getting moved and being happy because Chaerin's "crush" is confessing to her. Like, she's a little confused but she sure know how to be a supportive friend.

And even more, because of her scary appearance and how vocal she is about her crush, and how the people wary of her/terrified of her find that off-putting, maybe make the author and the narrative itself make fun of the scary muscly girl for having a crush or frame it as creepy, yet it doesn't go that path. The way she talks about and reminisce about her feelings in the latest chapters are some of the most moving stuff I'd seen. I'm not even into romance or the like but the earnestness and selflessness of her feelings left me contemplative, they'd leave me contemplative even if it wasn't all that self-less, because it's how strongly her love came across.

I got misogyny-caricature-trope baited, and I'm glad how the whole thing turned out.

17) Shiba Ganju (Bleach)

You'd think that I've chosen him because he's an underrated chara or something and that there are Bleach charas or even other mangas charas that I like more, and you would be wrong. This is his genuine place on the list.

Certified dumbass, made a "map" of Soul Society though he doesn't know any locations so he basically just drew a big circle and kept mentionning his "Soul Society map" to the high-strung Ichigo, the Hanatarou-Ganjuu-Ichigo trio was very charming, love his dumbass-resonance with Ichigo, love how he objectively state his titles being preceded by "self-proclaimed".

And, though he has all the reasons in the world to hate Shinigami (Rukia), who just showed one day dropping his brother's corpse that she skewered and said herself that she'd killed him with, like, zero explanations. He's not fully satisfied with dropping it at that, because he can't help but wonder why Kaien didn't hate the Shinigami (Rukia), and why he thanked her, and it just haunt him for years, despite everything else pointing out that he should objectively loathe the Shinigami (Rukia) and find them detestable, and the fact that he suffered a very big and hurtful loss, he's not fine with dismissing Kaien's reaction/input or leaving it at that, not even because of what Ichigo told him about the Shinigami (Rukia) who saved him, but because he pondered on that for longer than that. So he head out and get involved in that big mess because he wants to forge his own answers and opinion on the matter. This fucker is incredible.

18) Mayuzumi Chihiro (Kuroko no Basket)

He is so full of salt, poor fucker was minding his own damn business in the rooftop reading and probably getting ready to study for his entrance exams or something and got involved in the Miragen mess and the Akakuro Divorce, participating in some bball tournament should never have landed him in such telenovela, yet he might as well have expected it because from what we see, that dude's luck is cursed. He does stuff like get on random trains and wander around, he has a very entertaining and salty monologue and snarky thoughts, go king. I'm sad we didn't have more of his screen-time but he was probably internally like "ugh finally" so I'm gonna cheer for his off-screen peace

19) Azudora (Helck)

It's one of the rare serious-complex-like to put on a comical front -prankster but done right unlike all the other obnoxious representations of that trope. I find his backstory with Uria and how he deals about the whole human-demon thing very compelling, I like his level-headedness and maturity and kindness and wisdom and strength of heart and the fact that he's a dork. I very much love that instead of saying an actually serious argument/his actual feelings on the matter he was like "wait we shouldn't annihilate humans, guys imagine the effect of wiping out an entire species would have on our eco-system"

20) Chaerin Eun (Surviving Romance)

I love her growth, her chara development, the whole expanding on her actual feelings of being unable to see anyone other than Jeha and how scared and isolating the experience was for her. In another universe she would have been the bitch protagonist a beloved isekaied into a villainess protag would have fought and won against. This time around our protag is the self-absorbed superficial obsessed by her crush shallow girl, without even the cop-out of another mature/modest person taking her place or her travelling back in time or her "going to her senses" too rapidly. I am utterly in love with her journey and story And I'm not the only one

[tsunflowers]

azudora and helck had this deep and meaningful conversation that completely changed helck's perspective on the demon peoples of the empire and then azudora handed him this stupid flyer

[kentrix11]

Re-reading Helck.

Helck is good.

I appreciate a lot more of the start now that I go into it a second time, seeing all the set ups for plot twists way later on in almost the first 10 chapters alone is real nice.

I kinda thought that the start had less solemn bits to it but it has more than I remember, or perhaps that’s my impression now that I know what points towards something more serious.

Comedy is still predominant at the start though, it IS good comedy and it’s still fun to read.

A lot of my tastes have evolved to appreciated a lot of this characters a lot more.

Azudora being like, this legendary century old figure that is still pretty damn important and strong is really funny when contrasted with how much of a clown man he is at that point in the series.

Him having this Mentor to Disciple relationship with Vamirio where she does care for him, but it’s still constantly pissed at him for being an immense clown man that accidentaly pranked her too hard when she was a toddler is really funny too.

In more slightly spoilery stuff about messages.

I also appreciate the Solemn parts of it being about the classic “enduring hope against overwhelming despair“ but it actually having a character just...give up and goes down the worst path they have because they really see no hope for a better tomorrow, it going “no matter how bad it gets you can’t just give up“ is always appreciated.

[iamchonky]

Me too Azudora, me too🤣🤣

[cravingmoremangacaps]

[cviperfan]

SO “Legend of the Fire Princess,” huh

[silent-mlt]

[nero-draco]

[cartoons-with-lauw]

[izolyn]

Rafaed: “We killed Azudora. He’s dead.”

Anne Vamirio: “Nah, that doesn’t sound like something he would do.”

[superpatch24]

Helck´s volume covers

Author: Nanao Nanaki

Published in Ura-Sunday since 2014 (Ongoing)

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Tragedy, Action

[dlanor-knox]

I still love Azudora’s character growth & I love this

[tsunflowers]

it's so funny how azudora managed to pull off this body double trick bc no one questioned that he would show up to lead an army wearing this stupid ass mask. every single demon is goofy as fuck

[kentrix11]

Really funny how Shrike is basically young Azudora reworked a little.

[grass-skirt]

Answering another Helck ask behind a break for the sake of not spoiling anyone! 

“About Helck, I wanted to ask you about what do you think of the treatment of the female characters...”

(short answer for those planning to read the series: it’s great and I overwhelmingly only have good things to say) 

Anonymous said to grass-skirt: About Helck, I wanted to ask you about what do you think of the treatment of the female characters of the series. Vamirio has fought a lot less than Helck, but there was an effort to show that she would have been okay alone too, on the other side it makes sense because Helck wasnt used to fight alongside someone so strong and has a pretty big trauma about losing friends. I also wanted to know your opinion about the obvious ships, even though some people ship HelckxVamirio, god knows why...

I do wish that Vamirio had gotten to fight more throughout the story, and that’s probably my main complaint. There is still an imbalance in the number of male and female characters though. Out of the roughly 12 important human characters in the story, only 2 are female (Alicia and Sharuami). But things are more balanced on the demon side of things. Even though Hyura is the only major female contestant from the tournament (not to mention the strongest after Helck), it’s balanced out by Vamirio and Azudora’s major subordinates being mostly female (Asuta, Isuta, and Rococo). 

So on the whole, I really like how Helck treats its female characters. There are a good number of amazing demon women, and gender is absolutely never an issue. We haven’t seen any kind of sexism from the demons that I remember/noticed--no “oh, you should stay behind me and let me protect you because you’re a girl and I’m a man” or anything like that. Heck, at the beginning Kenros and Doruushi were happy to just stand back and watch Vamirio fight the winged soldiers because she was so much stronger than them 

One part where I was worried about was the part where Asuta was captured and being tortured. That whole scene was really uncomfortable to see, and I was also worried about how things were going to play out. But things turned out great! Asuta wound up not needing to be saved by anyone and handled the entire thing by her own damn self. 

So, yes it would have been nice for Vamirio to have fought more throughout the manga and overall there are more male characters than female ones, but on the whole the treatment of the female characters that Helck does have is fantastic. 

Vamirio is a powerful, incredibly competent, highly respected and caring person who is respected by everyone around her 

Hyura is the strongest of the contestants from the tournament, and has more fights than her co-contestants like Kenros and Doruushi 

Asuta was involved in one very scary situation, but handled it beautifully in a way that only reinforced how strong she is 

there’s no sexism (Helck may worry about protecting Vamirio sometimes, but’s it’s not because of her gender--he just wants to protect everyone and is terrified of losing more people he cares about, and he of course he is still fights side by side with Vamirio as an equal) 

harassment is never used for comedy (Azudora does annoy the hell out of Vamirio, but the jokes/pranks are harmless) 

there really isn’t any fanservice at all--no exploitation of female bodies for entertainment 

As for shipping stuff, I don’t really have much to say. I don’t really ship much of anything in the series at the moment, and the fandom is so non-existent that there’s no issue that I’m aware of with people having gross ships, like shipping siblings together or adults with minors and so on. 

Clearly you don’t like Vamirio and Helck as a ship, and I’m not about to ship them either, but if anyone does want to ship them there’s nothing about that that’s any kind of problem (well, unless someone is shipping them because of compulsory heterosexuality where they can’t see relationships between males and females as anything other then romantic/sexual in nature). I’d actually be more annoyed by anyone shipping Vamirio with Azudora, since Vamirio doesn’t actually like Azudora (she cares about him, but she straight up wants him to leave her alone because he’s constantly annoying her, and no to mention that Azudora was a grown adult who was around Vamirio when she was still a child, so shipping them necessarily carries over some really creepy dynamics.) 

I do like the relationship that started developing between Hyura and Edil before it was... cut short. Edil was trapped in a very tragic situation and even had his free will taken away from him, but thanks to Hyura he found a goal for himself and was actually able to (briefly) reclaim his free will thanks to her and all the times they crossed blades. It’s not really a shipping relationship, but it’s still one that involves a lot of intense and complicated feelings, which often gives a lot of people ship-feelings. 

Alright, that’s all the time/energy I have to say about all this!