Who's the bigger badass?

[meganbmoore]

I have been pondering lately...who's the bigger badass, Kyo(Samurai Deeper Kyo) or Manji(Blade of the Immortal)? Kyo has the bigger overall body count, but we don't see him kill nearly as much in the book, whereas we regularly see Manji chop people up. They're both practically immortal(Manji literally because of the worms, Kyo because he's too stubborn and stupid to die) and seem to have every swordsman they meet(and some they haven't yet) practically salivating at the chance to fight with them. Kyo has all those special Mibu moves going for him, but Manji can just reattach body parts that get hacked off. They also both have a habit of going psychotic and murderous if a girl at least 10 years their junior is theratened or touched.*

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*As such, there is to be no "Well, if Rin/Yuya was in trouble..." as a factor because then you'd have to be fair and let the same be a motivator for the other, and if that happened, there wouldn't be a Japan left when it was all over...

Comments

[chomiji]

Look, a dead tie!

I voted Kyo simply because he destroys landscapes as well as people. But seriously, the two are completely different genres ... BotI plays like almost-historical fiction with the single exception of the bloodworms and things related to them. SDK is out and out fantasy and never pretends to be anything but.

And Yukimura says that Manji just isn't his type of guy (although I'm sure he'd drink with him ...), whereas Kyo is his obsession.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Oh, most definately very different genres, though there are some similarities.

Actually, I suspect Yukimura would be a touch obsessed w/ Manji if they lived in the same world. The bloodworms alone would have his attention...