Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-32974074-20180704135153/@comment-26912075-20180704230522

Nabukun wrote: Well basically all you're saying is that you have a little universal checklist you have handy for any work, and that regardless of the creator's style and intents, if there's something that isn't checked, it sucks.

I find the logic extremely faulty. I see what you are saying, but that kind of misses the point. Sure, not all characters are meant to be the same. For example, take the first part of Jojo. They don’t have complex characters because, well, that simply isn’t Araki's goal with the part. Those characters were built to be simplistic and they fit their setting fairly well. However, that doesn’t mean that they are necessarily great characters. If you compare them to other works such as Death Note or Logh, then they simply lack in many areas. They are effective in what they do but are not much compared to other series that go far and beyond the average to craft extraordinary characters that are extremely fleshed out. None of this is including enjoyment, as that is a separate story. Also, I believe that you are forgetting the Death of the Author effect. This is essentially the argument that what the author intended to do does not matter to the work itself, as it stands alone. For instance, if someone intended to write a thrilling mystery story, but the actual mystery can be solved instantly by the audience because the author made the answer obvious and did not provide any reasonable alternatives to that answer, then his intention doesn’t matter as it contradicts the reality that it is not an engaging or thrilling mystery. Of course the critique of a work is subjective, but saying that something is subjective does not mean that objective standards don’t exist, it means that different people interpret whether the work matched those objective standards differently.