First of all, yeah that's for some reason how replies work on this site, it's really weird.
What you don't take into account when talking about Ainz is that the guy isn't human anymore, from the very begin of the series it's shown that he doesn't feel anymore the way he did as a human, he can look at death and suffering without it affecting him and whenever something makes him feel strong emotions he is automatically calmed down by magic. The only thing he still truly cares about are his servants who all are monsters and straight up hate or just don't care about humanity and all of his actions (not in the beginning when he actively searched for other players, a bit later on) are "for their sake". Don't get me wrong, that doesn't really justify his actions at all, it never was my point that one of them is more or less evil than the other in the first place, there is just more behind him than just doing evil things for no reason.
Tanya is still very much human and while she didn't kill anyone in her previous life (at least as far as I know) she has always been a sociopath. She may be in a WW1/WW2 scenario and fights for her life a lot of times, but does that justify the horrible things she did? Does it justify killing civilians or disobeying comrades? Why are her actions acceptable if she too makes people suffer without empathy or remorse?
In the end both their actions are unjustifyable, cruel and often unnecessary, they are both evil in their own ways, Ainz is a fucking supervillain and Tanya is an immoral soldier comitting war crimes. But me liking Ainz (and Tanya for that matter) says as much about me as a person as you liking Tanya (or at least not hating her, I can only assume what you think about her specifically based on you liking the show) says about you: nothing. Maybe it's me being sensitive about reading something like "liking Ainz is the same as liking Hitler but somehow worse" since I'm German, but it's just factually wrong to say that kind of stuff.
If you hate a character that's fine and you can hate them for whatever reason without needing to justify it, but what the fuck is this talk about liking Ainz being the same as liking Hitler?! You gave Saga of Tanya the Evil 5 stars, by your logic that would make you a horrible person too since you basically like a documentary of German soldiers committing war crimes in World War 1. Please don't compare liking something or someone fictional to likingsomething similar in real life, that's just not how it works.
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First of all, yeah that's for some reason how replies work on this site, it's really weird.
What you don't take into account when talking about Ainz is that the guy isn't human anymore, from the very begin of the series it's shown that he doesn't feel anymore the way he did as a human, he can look at death and suffering without it affecting him and whenever something makes him feel strong emotions he is automatically calmed down by magic. The only thing he still truly cares about are his servants who all are monsters and straight up hate or just don't care about humanity and all of his actions (not in the beginning when he actively searched for other players, a bit later on) are "for their sake". Don't get me wrong, that doesn't really justify his actions at all, it never was my point that one of them is more or less evil than the other in the first place, there is just more behind him than just doing evil things for no reason.
Tanya is still very much human and while she didn't kill anyone in her previous life (at least as far as I know) she has always been a sociopath. She may be in a WW1/WW2 scenario and fights for her life a lot of times, but does that justify the horrible things she did? Does it justify killing civilians or disobeying comrades? Why are her actions acceptable if she too makes people suffer without empathy or remorse?
In the end both their actions are unjustifyable, cruel and often unnecessary, they are both evil in their own ways, Ainz is a fucking supervillain and Tanya is an immoral soldier comitting war crimes. But me liking Ainz (and Tanya for that matter) says as much about me as a person as you liking Tanya (or at least not hating her, I can only assume what you think about her specifically based on you liking the show) says about you: nothing. Maybe it's me being sensitive about reading something like "liking Ainz is the same as liking Hitler but somehow worse" since I'm German, but it's just factually wrong to say that kind of stuff.
If you hate a character that's fine and you can hate them for whatever reason without needing to justify it, but what the fuck is this talk about liking Ainz being the same as liking Hitler?! You gave Saga of Tanya the Evil 5 stars, by your logic that would make you a horrible person too since you basically like a documentary of German soldiers committing war crimes in World War 1. Please don't compare liking something or someone fictional to likingsomething similar in real life, that's just not how it works.