Good post. Not actually anime (but may as well be), the Yakuza series is sort of like this. Kiryu’s OP af, of course he’s not gonna lose the fight physically. Instead, he loses his loved ones and friends. Over and over again, each time blaming himself for dragging them into things and going to more and more drastic measures to protect who remains, willfully alienating himself in the process and acting more and more recklessly in an act of desperation. The series manages to take the relatively self contained events of each game and tell a longform story with Kiryu exceptionally well, the most OP man on the planet full stop.
Good post. Not actually anime (but may as well be), the Yakuza series is sort of like this. Kiryu’s OP af, of course he’s not gonna lose the fight physically. Instead, he loses his loved ones and friends. Over and over again, each time blaming himself for dragging them into things and going to more and more drastic measures to protect who remains, willfully alienating himself in the process and acting more and more recklessly in an act of desperation. The series manages to take the relatively self contained events of each game and tell a longform story with Kiryu exceptionally well, the most OP man on the planet full stop.