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Mineta's Only Purpose

Everyone knows Mineta is a useless grape head whose only purpose is to sexually harrass girls. He has almost no redeemable characteristics and his character isn't even aesthetically pleasing. Overall he's a failure of a character who the whole fandom despises.

Now, the creator of BNHA, Horikoshi, has made dozens of loveable characters who interact well together. It wouldn't be so hard to remove Mineta or make his character more understandable and relatable, because they've taken the time to do that with tons of characters. Giving him a decent backstory and making him redeemable could have happened, if that is what they wanted.

But it's not.

Mineta is purposely made to be irredeemable. He's made to be hateable. Why? Because if the whole fandom hates Mineta the most than it saves other characters from being scrutinized or written off as bad (especially if they've yet to have their redemption arcs). Because, "Oh, Kaminari is a perv, but not as bad as Mineta" will allow people to appreciate characters they'd otherwise write off as their least favourite.

We can all agree that Mineta sucks, (and hell, the story would probably be better without him) but he's still something that brings the fandom together. A character we can all collectively hate because he has no redeeming qualities. At the very least, BNHA fans know they can always find common ground on hating Mineta.