There are many authors who like to slaughter popular characters of their own creation. But the vast majority just turn their stories into worthless shit.
How does Chainsaw Man manage to keep the story going and be loved by fans even though the vast majority of characters are dead?
How to massacre popular characters and still not ruin the story?
Aaron Martin
Anthony Lee
Power was never popular
Benjamin Reyes
Only Aki and Denji were developed, the rest were more akin to cardboard cutouts. Then you had side characters like Beam or Violence who lasted for 10 panels or so before unceremoniously getting killed off. The only thing he achieved was making his readers not get invested in his characters
Ayden Rogers
fake out deaths. Fans knew Hybrids would appear again, and they were right.
Angel Myers
>Power was never popular
She literally won the first character poll and was 2nd in the next.
Luis Kelly
>his readers not get invested in his characters
Really? I remember when the "power" died. A lot of people almost had a nervous breakdown, but they still loved the author. Very few people could do that, most of the time the fans got so angry that they posted their hate speech against the author on the internet.
Chase Gomez
>2nd
Third
Josiah Adams
Are they ok?
Logan Gomez
bad bait. Both chapter 1 and vol 1 of Part 2 are not even out yet.
wait til Part 2's sales come out
Michael Nguyen
>and was 2nd in the next.
Why lie like that? It's genuinely pathetic.
Jordan Wright
kek
Samuel Murphy
>how to massacre popular characters and still not ruin the story?
by making organically, something you could actually see happening considering the plot, not popularity
Landon Kelly
Sometimes I can't help to think the author is a Makimafag who's upset that Power is the most popular and best girl.
Jayden Flores
He was, I remember him saying in an interview that he was a SM lover. He likes the kind of strong woman who treats men like dogs
Matthew Sanders
Oh wow.
Jeremiah Williams
>Sometimes I can't help to think the author is a Makimafag
I mean, isn't this obvious by the story?
The MC is generally the author's self insert (in this case admitted) and the main girl is the author's ideal woman.
Robert Phillips
Isaiah Ortiz
Akibros...we won.
Levi Morgan
Yeah I never understood that. I'm not going to deny that some moments were sad, but people breaking down after characters like eyepatch girl or reze died was always weird to me. Aki's death was the only one in the series that got to me.
John Perez
The idea that anyone can die keeps the stakes high, it's one of the reasons Game of Thrones was popular; far less people had plot armor.
Jose Jones
the series was short enough that it didn't overstay its welcome, that's all