Who is the worst protagonist of all anime/manga

Kazuya from Rent-A-Girlfriend

yuki from future diary.

Jonathan Joestar. Here's something I wrote before about it.

Lets get the disclaimer out of the way, I know JoJo is a very well liked series and I know Jonathan is therefore a character a lot of people will like. If you do, I'm not trying to make you dislike him or the series, be you, you're cool.
But I can't, I can't like Part 1 and I can't like Jonathan both of them help each other in that "suckiness", if the problems of Part 1 help Jonathan be a worse character than he would in better hands, the fact that the main character is bad makes Part 1 feel worse than it would with a better main character.
So, I'm going to actually start with the manga and what problems it brings to the table, because Jonathan is definitely not the only bad character in Phantom Blood, actually, I'd argue that almost every character is bad. The manga art doesn't help, we're all used to hear that Araki is a fantastic manga artist, well, he wasn't in 1986. While he pulls a nice badass panel here and there, most of the manga is pretty ugly, so our character... is ugly. Then the dialogues are God damn horrible. This is a thing of some old manga, Devilman has it, Saint Seiya has it... Dialogues that are legitimately the worst thing ever. They suck the immersion out of it, it doesn't feel like normal characters are speaking and this helps to make every character, including your MC, feel more clunky, more annoying, less real.

Then Jonathan is a nice guy character, and look, I could write an entire secondary rant about how I LIKE your traditional nice guy character in battle shounen. People who complain about every single Shounen MC being just a nice guy without complex character conflicts and grey morals, I don't think they realize that these characters are not supposed to be like that, they're supposed to be role models. When you watched Dragon Ball as a kid, you cared about Goku not being "deep" or did you just enjoyed it and wanted to be like him?
With that said, most characters are also fun to watch. Jonathan is written to be the embodiment of "Good" and this is on purpose, because as we know, his rival, DIO, is written to be the embodiment of "Evil", he killed a dog after all, and who kills dogs if not Satan himself.. and my girlfriend, she's a vet and sometimes euthanasia is the only way to go. Sorry.

But that's all that Jonathan is, he's a gentleman, a nice gentleman, who respects everything and that's all. He is genuinely everything that people complain about the "nice guy" characters and nothing else. He's a one dimentional character in which his one dimension is not even that interesting.

God I hate him.

And the worst part is that every other Jojo that came afterwards... is actually nice. Like, I don't love the Jojo cast, but there's a lot of good characters, a lot of them introduced right in Part 2, so I don't know what happened in part 1, but it sucks that it is like that. Jojo could have been easier to get into if that wasn't the case.

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Bam from Tower of God

This dude is just a person who does really nothing interesting and he's only simping for Rachel which is what I hate more because she's a b*tch. So long he hasn't done anything impressive I don't like him

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emiya shirou

emiya shirou or Bam from tower of god, they don't really do anything interesting

Ash Ketchum

I've been and still watch the Pokemon anime, but the writers won't ever let him age and mature that much. Now it is targeted towards children and the parts were Ash forgets typing is I'm guessing for comedy, but still. It's annoying for long-term fans to see it repeated multiple times. Another thing is I'd wish they'd stick to one art style, but I guess it's something to keep it fresh.

all 3

"Every light novel adaptation's main characters" is a wise answer

touya from smartphone isekai

Kazuya is so fucking annoying
RentaGirlfriend

Leonardo Watch
I just dont like him.

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru

Hachiman from Oregairu, he's deep and an outcast at the age of 16 (or 17, idk) because he got rejected by a girl in middle school lmao.

Deku, he's alright just.. meh.

They're not really "the worst", but you'll never convice me that Naruto/Natsu/Asta are good characters.

I'm here to save the day, i'm the one who will say it!
Subaru

https://anilist.co/character/89/Shinji-Ikari

It's rough that I have to put him here, as Shinji is an extremely realistic character that matches up to everyone's expectations if such responsibilities of "saving the world" were placed on someone. Evangelion illustrates the burden really well, especially through mental illness. But, it's still not fun seeing someone break down mentally. After episodes and episodes of preparing and pep talk Shinji still refuses to actively pilot, and eventually it makes the audience become sick of his antics. Of course, this is unfair for Shinji as technically it's completely fair for him to be freaking out, and to be scared but you know how this goes. Nobody wants a scared, whinny main character. They want someone who's cool, unique, badass. And Shinji just goes against all of those characteristics. He's extremely real, which places him both as a great protagonist but also a horrible protagonist, a double edged sword that works in two different ways depending on how you approach it.

Basically any harem protagonist.

To name any names, I would say Kirito from SAO (who was okay before he became a moody tryhard) and Kazuya from Rent-A-Girlfriend (who is literally just an indecisive rock).

Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation
The Mc is so dumb ngl. If you want a redo of another life WHY START AS A CREEP? That's gonna get you nowhere.

The Mom, Dad, and Maid are worse the dads a rapist, The mom brushes past the fact he had a kid with the maid and the maid really doesn't take responsibility.

Boku no Namae wa Shounen A

This takes the cake for manga. The whole story is a clusterfuck the author really didn't know when to start the falling action in the story. I KID YOU NOT. During the last 3-5 chapters, the story was still rising in action. The MC is also just a fucking pussy throwing away his life on a girl who has moved on and lived her life peacefully.

Maybe she actually forgot since she lost her memory

The Author skips also skip over essential parts and makes the MC do dumb shit.

he had proof he was innocent and did nothing with it

I 100% SAY. DO. NOT. READ. THIS. MANGA.

ash lynx from "banana fish".

Makoto Itou from fucking school days

He was literally made to be hated.

every male MC from every harem

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Naruto Uzumaki

Kensuke Hanazaki from Trickster, never met such a dumbass before in my life srsly

i love fairy tail but i hate lucy so much

deku.