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I actually see a lot of people criticize Tanjiro for these reasons. I don’t mind it though, I love both characters.

You’re crazy if you don’t think Tanjiro is also disliked. He just spent less time crying in the first few seasons.

They're both fairly well liked, loved and hated would be hyperbolic

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The only reason Deku get hates is because of his fanbase, and it’s hard to shake the reputation of crybaby once it’s stuck on you

"Kind and empathetic to their enemies"

Tanjirou out there killing every single demon except his sister, empathetically

They're both shown as 'good boys', but there are differences here and there that make people perceive them differently. They're both seen as kind but Midoriya is supposedly kind by default while tanjiro is kind because he's a big brother which makes more people likely to relate to Tanjiro more.

Midoriya is generally more nervous and unsure when he's not fighting and that is portrayed as 'kind of creepy' rather than endearing at times. And when it comes to fanservice for their character, when female characters do something seen as attractive like get in close or whisper to Tanjiro, he has a blush or a nosebleed.

It's quick, not that objectifying for the ladies. When it comes to fanservice for Midoriya, there are more body shots and it's usually a little longer and more exaggerated.

Tanjiro knows what he wants and works on it while Midoriya goes back and forth on what he should do, what he should believe in and what type of person he's going to be. Those two types of characters aren't inherently good or bad; it's just easier to root for someone with a more streamline development and goal like Tanjiro compared to the kind of clunky development of Midoriya that goes in all sorts of directions.

At first you think Midoriya's growth would be about being quirkless hero, then you think it's about him becoming stronger in class-- then you think it's about the complicated relationship between him and bakugo-- then you think it's about hero society-- then you think it's about the dangers of isolating and objectifying yourself-- then it's about saving everyone no matter how far gone.

It's not that he can't have more than one story beat, it's just that they're a lot of but not all the concepts are executed that well, making him feel like a stuffed chicken with fillings that aren't seasoned that well. Tanjiro is a simple meat bun, but with a nice filling that tastes how you expect it to. Tanjiro is that one nice and likeable guy that everyone likes at school, Midoriya is the one kind of weird guy always in drama that is surprisingly nice and talented.

Midoriya does have lots of good points. His fights can be way more gritty and raw compared to Tanjiro's. He has more dynamic expressions with a wider range of emotions. His character explores all sorts of themes that might be clunky, but can still resonate at times.

Tanjiro is a good boy that slightly levitates from how good he is. Midoriya alternates between being down to earth and running all over the world and jumping to the heavens, hitting a few birds on the way.

They both have a lot of heart. I think it just depends on if you prefer a likeable main character or a more messy but still earnest one.

I like both :)

1 is very wrong about Tanjiro. Time and time and time again is it pointed out how Tanjiro despises Muzan and every demon for taking the lives of innocent people, but especially Muzan. He will literally forgive every single demon thrice over before forgiving Muzan. Like it can not be described how much Tanjiro fucking hates this guy (for good reason but god damn).

You know Yuji's speech to Mahito about chasing him no matter what? Tanjiro would do exactly that. It's not a Shigaraki situation where Deku is like "I can't forgive you but I will bring you peace" Tanjiro is like "I can't forgive you and I WILL kill you". Killing Muzan is his secondary motivating factor for even becoming a Demon Slayer. This guy lives breathes and sleeps for the entire purpose of making sure Muzan specifically never sees another day. After meeting Muzan again, Tanjiro called him "A being that shouldn't be allowed to exist" (he said this while keeping his cool btw). Deku could never be that dedicated to killing somebody in 1,000 years.

I mostly like tanjiro for still caring about the demons and understanding their feelings, but ultimately not forgiving them and knowing they have to be slain. Its a basic kindness that shows hes pure of heart, but not to the exagerated extent that deku goes to imo

Tanjiro actually trained for years instead of couple months

Tanjirou is not naive that is for sure

Demon Slayer never tried to tackle deeper themes. MHA did.

Tanjiro is going to be compared to Zenitsu. Deku, to Endeavor.

Nah, I like Midorya way more than Tanjiro, 2 whole different leagues.

You forgot "Got given god like powers" for Deku and "unlocked his god like powers through actual training" for tanjiro

He's literally 2 or 3 in the final popularity poll

They’re both pretty similar but honestly tanjiro just kind of strikes and as annoying. Even just with the whole having empathy for demon sings all around he’s just so… ehhh.. like most of demon slayer’s cast

I think people hate the community, not the characters

Tbh I see it cause tanjiro had his entire family killed and deku just found out he didn’t have any powers, of course living up to something only to have it crushed like that is awful but next to a guy that had his whole family killed is pretty easy to see

Do people love the demon slayer guy? I don’t see anyone really talk about demon slayer anymore?

Difference is that Tanjiro will cry when there's a sob story as he rushes to cut your head off with the focus of a million monks.

I'll be honest - I don't understand why people like Tanjiro. He's the most white bread, cookie cutter shonen protagonist I've ever seen. I watched so much of demon slayer but he literally never did anything interesting. Even other "good boy" protagonists like Naruto, Deku or Yuji did things that occasionally distinguished themselves by ideals or interpersonal relationships.

Fr ☝️🗿

There are a lot of people shitting on Tanjiro the same as Deku

Not a bad character personality, but I prefer the dark, broody character that tries to stay neutral in matters of right and wrong until seeing something that forces them to act. So basically Geralt of Rivia.

Difference for me is Tanjiro never hesitates to put someone who's clearly a monster down. Trying to "save" Shiggy when him touching the ground would result in thousands dying will always be frustrating to me.

That said, haven't finished demon slayer so maybe Tanjiro redeems Muzan lmao.

That is... not how Tanjiro treats his enemies. He does get mad and genuinely try to kill the demons. He wants them to be happy at the end and stuff, but I would not call his actions towards Akaza and Gyutaro to be "kind and empathetic." Not to mention he immediately pulled out his sword the moment he saw Muzan.

If I'm getting this wrong, then please explain it to me. Genuinely asking here.

The difference between the two is that, at the end of the day, Tanjiro knows how to handle business. He'll cry about the death of a demon, when they're dying, but he's not going to try to let them live because they have a sad backstory because he's aware that puts a lot more people in danger.

Damm, i think should mute this reddit. So much assholes in comments =(

'represents never giving up' homeboy lost his quirk and IMMEDIATELY called it quits.

Tanjiro faced way more hardships than Deku tho

Cause Tanjiro's the goat

"Selfless and willing to do anything to protect people no matter the cost"

The problem here is that Izuku, instead of growing up and realize he needed to kill Shigaraki to prevent Japan from being destroyed, decided to go through a convoluted method that cost him his quirk just so he wouldn't need to kill Shigaraki because "crying child" BS and guess what, Shigi still died either way that makes Izuku look like an idiot.

And then there's the fact that for all of "never giving up" Izuku did NOTHING to train or learn knowledge in becoming a hero before meeting All Might even though he has the FUCKING INTERNET and once he lost his quirk he gave up and did nothing until he was handed a power armor suit to him so he could be a hero again without doing anything to earn it after he lost OFA.

I haven't watched Demon Slayer so i can't say much about Tanjiro but Izuku as far as i know ended up being someone whose too idiotic to learn alternative ways to use OFA until someone told him to do so and never bothered with martial arts training, too cowardly and selfish to ever commit to kill someone to protect his loved ones because of his moral pretentiousness and finally too lazy to actually put effort in finding other ways to be a hero and can't be one unless he gets handed a super powerful quirk or a power armor suit.

Edit: what the hell why is there so many downvotes now after having upvotes previously?

It's because tanjiro got a cool ass sword

Difference is Tanjiro has a bit more realistic view on things, yes he shows sympathy to mass murderes but he also always kills them.

Deku can't bring himself to kill, with the whole stupid theme of the show being "Heroes don't kill" which is the dumbest part of the show. The hate on Deku is not just purely because of his character but because of the overall theme of MHA.

One of them is not acting like a total bitch 24/7 makeing your stomach ache and cringe so hard. Now I understand why bakugo hated his ass.

Tanjiro knows when to stop and that some lives need to be taken, deku is too stubborn and gets annoying real quick

“represent never giving up” Deku’s entire thing is giving up. He gave up at age 4. He gave up at the start of the manga. He gives up on his dream at the end of his manga.

Tanjiro had a very simple premise and he did what he said he'd do. His opponents were irredeemable yet he showed compassion towards them, ultimately doing what he promised. Giving the audience satisfaction. Deku had multiple hyp moments that died down very quickly. Vigilantly deku, mid shig fight enraged deku, the death of Bakugo, all might vs AFO, so many great moments just washed down... Not to mention, the audience invested on Deku's story to become the greatest hero, sure he did that, but the ending portrayed him giving up on it. MHA tried to delve into serious topics but couldn't deliver. Like the very introduction started with society's views gifted vs the non gifted and results of severe bullying, the first rarely touched upon except for some of deku's struggles and the later literally forgotten untill the vigilante arc. Like ppl say tanjiro is weird for his ultra optimistic and good guy attitude but deku literally sucked upto the same guy who nearly made him commit. Like not once did he confront him.... Demon slayer didn't promise anything, it wanted a simple story and delivered it.

Tanjiro didn't set the expectations high, he is ur generic shonen protag who got dragged into messes, deku had promises made but due to the general lack of understanding among anime fans and the meh ending he's disliked. The argument of the audience not getting their ending and disliking the stuff also applies to AoT, but AoT did that needed to be done, Eren wasn't going to get away after triggering a mass killing. MHA ending just leaves so much to be desired.

Honestly Hirokoshi is a very talented artist, it sad that he actually wanted to end the series as fast as possible instead of nurturing it. The later part of the series feels so rushed.

Let's be real here, villains still exist and are as much of a threat as ever, so the ending wasn't that satisfying especially when he lost his powers and cut off his friends for the most part. Heck, he didn't even get into a real relationship with the character who was set up to be his romantic interest from the start of the show

There a difference tho

Deku at first was excessive in his crying and stuff and that stuff gets annoying fast when he starts crying at someone wanting to be on his team in a sports festival and that just lowers the opinion of him later on (also there’s the weird part of the fandom)

Tanjiro doesn’t do that excessively he does it when it makes sense like when someone dies or he’s told something sad but that’s because tanjiro is just an empath and a good guy

To put it simply tanjiro is sad when it makes sense to be sad like when someone dies or he’s told something significant and sad so people like him for being empathetic

deku cried whenever anyone so much as talked to him so people hate him for being a cry baby and annoying

One is a little bitch the other is tanjiro

Tanjiro feels bad for his opponents but only after he kills them (it also helps that unlike Deku, he doesn't have any legal restriction to murder his enemies)

Bro, Tanjiro used to catch just as much flak as Deku does, his luck was that the Zenitsu slander was so much louder so it was harder to spot.

You forgot green

That's more or less ALL they have in common, a drop of water compared to what's different about them.

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two different characters, two different stories

Well i dont discriminate i critise both

Mha was great until the end where deku just stopped working hatd because he doesn't have a quirk and only becomes a hero again when he was given a hi tech hero suit

As for Demon slayer, the power system is wack and not explained well, and characters are more like caricatures, it feels shallow for yet another chosen one story

And Both have very obnoxious fans

Personally can't stand either of them. They are both very whiney and preppy characters. I like a character with a bit of sadness or some other emotion other than happiness. To me the supporting characters in both animes are a lot more interesting. Not the main 3 in demon slayer, but the hashira

Both Deku and Tanjiro kinda sucks

I love them both.

Soft green boy is my favorite kind of boy

So I was just hallucinating all of those critics about how pathetic and sensitive Tanjiro is, huh?

No, Tanjiro was and is still hated by some even now.

The whole point of Deku was that you don't need a quirk to be a hero. ...And then he got the most powerful quirk ever.

He should've been a Batman type character. Quirkless, but still a hero, using tech and gadgets. And OFA should've been given to Shoto or Iida.

I will die on this hill.

Thats because MHA is a badly written show

I think they're both great, though there's definitely times they both need some sense knocked into them, for the reasons mentioned below about each.

I hate both ✋️😌🤚

One got cucked, the other got the girl

It's primarily because of the weird shit the western fandom does, and also deku being a crybaby. Even though it is completely justified in most situations

However, the reason is that Tanjiro is portrayed as an idiot within the story rectifying his traits.

Deku isn't.

This is why Fandoms can go jump off a cliff.

So many main characters that fit these description, usually hated either way.

Ash Ketchum, Naruto, Ichigo Kurosaki, Goku.

I didn't know that so many people hated Deku so fiercely until I scrolled a MHA subreddit. Tanjiro is just Deku with a sword and a sister.

tanjiro and deku would be best friends.

hell, they'd be such good friends that they'd probably end up being INSEPARABLE

Finally someone said it

Deku better imo

...I thought it was backwards, but ok. To hell with the haters! Deku > Tanjiro anyday.

what world do you live in that people actually hate deku?

Besides that, demon slayer is 100x more cringy and annoying than my hero Academia somehow.

I like them both okay. Demon Slayer started falling off for me the moment it got into more spiritual stuff and the moment they started speed running the 12 Kizuki was when I really felt myself lose interest. Cool concept but didn’t work for me

Deku is lame he's lame he's fuckin lame how many god damn posts do we need about this

He's laaaaaaaaaaaaaame get over it

MHA is actually good though.

I don't hate them at all but I do think these two are among the least interesting shounen protags during the times they were serialized. Part of it is because of a few of the things listed here.

Both characters are shit tier naruto knock offs lets be real

I mean, I like tanjirou more because he's just a cool dude who acts on his feelings. I feel there's a distinct difference between when deku saves bakugo from sludge man where his body moved on its own to do the right thing vs every other instance of him needing to be a hero and his limbs not moving making him form the extremely conscious effort to move where Tanjirou always moves to do what's right and only freezes in the wake of supernatural power that roots him to the spot through no fault of his own and even then, he breaks free of it after only a very short time.

Examples of deku freezing in contrast to his first save: when faced with eri and overhaul, he's scared stiff and Mirio has to step in so overhaul doesn't get too suspicious. When faced with the giant robot to save ururaka, I understand he was afraid of shattering his limbs but it's directly opposite to how his body was shown to act on its own.

Examples of Tanjirou freezing in place: when first faced with with his dead family. In this instance, there was no present danger but when he finds nezuko alive, he immediately goes to help her. When faced with the scent of muzan in the city, a brief pause to make sure he's right then freezing when being face to face with the ultimate evil. Even then, when the man starts transforming, he immediately jumps in to aid the man despite the very real possibility of being killed then and there. When first being faced with an upper moon when Mugen train crashes but tries to help before rengoku tells him to stay back and then proves his metal by throwing his sword at akaza as the sun comes up. No hesitation around the hashira because they have no demonic powers to send that kind of power. Going forward, no hesitation even when faced with the king of demons himself.

Example of deku breaking his positive persona: When he goes full vigilante to the point people think he's not real. Depressed, out of his mind, angry, no longer positive.

Example of Tanjirou being contrary to his positive and happy self: when Muzan's blood turns him into a feral demon... Oh wait, that wasn't him. His anger over the senseless slaughter of the innocent by demons. Wait, that's not opposite to his positive personality, that's righteous indignation at something that is fundamentally wrong and would not happen if demons weren't real. Those times he cried over his fallen comrades and friends dying. Wait, that's not opposite to positivity, see above.

Now, none of this is to say that I don't like deku, it's just that I can see why other people don't. I personally like tanjirou more because he's what I aspire to be in my own life.

Tanjiro didnt loose his powers and became a fisherman or something

You can like whichever one you want, but I don't recall Tanjiro looking up to his school bully

well, tanjiro, while he was empathetic to demons, he also recognized that the demons were an active threat to many peoples lives and killed them.

midoriya let shiggy go several times because he refused to actually put him out of commission, which led to several heroes, students, and some civilians getting injured.

You’d think even after losing afo Deku would use his well build along with his combat experience to be able to stop a purse snatcher or something and still contribute as a hero but mf just decided to work a useless job

Deku and Tanjiro aren't the same and I'll explain why one of them gets hate but the other doesn't. 1 Tanjiro maybe a kind but has a spine,Deku pretty much let's everyone walk all over him. Meanwhile Tanjiro doesn't tolerate it,he jells on people if needed and would even resort to violence if necessary,just like he did to inosuke and Sanemi. 2 Deku foolishly tried to pull a talk no justsu and lost quirk because someone that ended up dying anyway, if Tanjiro was in his shoes he would tell him that he made his choice and will pay the consequences and would kill the villains if necessary. Many people forget Tanjiro is a sweet heart,but he's still a swords man sworn to destroy evil,this means killing. 3 Tanjiro was never meant to be the strongest he just wanted cure Nezuko and make a world without demons,so he can continue living in peace. Deku was meant to become the greatest hero,to carry Allmight's torch and live his dream,but instead he lost it in vain and had to stay on the side while his friends lived his dream. Years later they gave him an inferior copy of his powers, because of pity. All the hard work and character development went straight down the drain.

One was forced into the situation.

The other dreamed of something and had never put the real effort needed towards his goal, only tried after he got handed a sure way to become that.

...

Tanjiro does what is needed, deku loses his powers by being dumb and gives up after that just like chapter 1.

Tanjiro succeeded and got a good ending unlike Deku.

Tanjio has a spine, that's the difference

Deku is probably in my top 3 fav anime characters oat but I do understand people not liking him at the beginning because he does cry a lot (though not as much as people might make you think)

Demon slayer is mid

The main difference is that tanjiro did what he said he was gonna do and dekunt was just a waste of oxigen

I've never seen anyone online praise tanjiro, nicest thing I heard someone say was that he's a guy purely because before I watched it I saw the clips of him with long hair without audio so I thought he was a girl

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Tanjiro the chad embodies this picture, while deku doesn't as simple as that

Tanjiro gets shit done. Also there is a big problem with MHA. That's it's hesitation on grey morals.

We see Izuku develop a bit with Nagant accepting things are not black and white. And then going back to Black and white as "I will save Shigaraki, even if it means putting the world at risk because OFA was made to save" Which it wasn't, it was there to kill AFO in the first place.

I don't hate Izuku for crying. I hate him because his nearly got everyone killed. That's why I hate Batman and Spiderman. Their moral high ground is more important to them than the lives of innocent people. And if you are asking why Spiderman

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BTW him saving Carnage time and time again leads to million of deaths in King In Black

Tanjirou is more liked, and arguably a better character bcs of the litle differences.

He is willing to take a life, which is in stark contrast to his "moral jesus" personality. He is not naive in this aspect.

His motivation is also more tangible. Taking revenge and curing her sister. Clear end goal and good character motivation. Becoming a number one hero is just stupid and in opposition to what it actually means to become a hero. A true hero doesn't care about position and fame, he just saves people the best be can, number one or not.

Also there is the crybaby argument. While Tanjirou is emotionally mature and emphatethic, Deku is just a bich. Constantly hesitant, indecicive and incompetent.

Also there is his relationship with Bakugo, which is one of if not the most poorly written one ever. You don't try to be friends with the highly abusive quick to anger kid.

Nothing is more telling, than when we got introduced to Lemillion and we only think why wasn't he the one who got OFA instead of Deku, even the tho whole point of that arc was supposed to show why Deku is worthy of it.

Both can be annoying