Heres some propaganda that supports the belief that hagakure is in fact both cringe AND fail because i feel he does demonstrate both traits:
one of the main aspects of hagakures character that separates him from the others is that while the general opinion is that the majority of the characters that made it to further chapters or survived did have character development, hagakures case is that his personality actually got worse (based on a comment by aoi, the scene being along the lines of aoi testing his sanity and asking him a simple math question, in which he goes on a rant and FAILS to answer correctly 💀💀)
the only arguably progressive thing hagakure has done (more so said) was his little speech at the end of thh about moving forward, which he actually FAILED to act on. In UDH, the whole plot is him attempting to steal something from towa city (WHICH RESULTS IN A WHOLE ASS HELICOPTER FILLED WITH HIS COLLEAGUES TO EXPLODE SIMPLY BECAUSE HE DECIDED TO FAKE SICK) to resolve his debt which he still hasnt managed to get over and getting into a whole load of trouble, relying on a highschooler to continuously save his ass, and then concluding the novel by chasing after nakajima in an attempt to continue his journey to squeeze money out of her, therefore FAILING to uphold his words in THH about moving forward and FAILING to do his job as a FF worker too (i will however give him credit for saving her, even tho it was only once)
also, i feel its alittle bit weird that people are calling the characters that were murdered failures simply for dying? like everyone dies, and its especially weird that people are saying taka is a failure for dying as a victim, idk it just doesnt make that much sense to me, what does make sense tho is calling hagakure a failure despite the fact hes still alive, he has the privilege of life but the only reason he IS alive is because he relied on some bloody highschoolers to literally do everything, and he spend his life amounting to absolutely nothing as he's NOT good at his job (both of them, being a fortune teller and a ff worker (and i mean hes not good at getting customers hes an ok clairvoyant)), his personality is horrendous and only got worse, and hes basically failed so much that people dont even see it as failure and more as a personality trait because he does it so often
anyways heres some hagakure cringefail facts if you didnt wanna read all of that (all canon btw):
he washes his hair with fabric softener
he wears a haramaki cuz he thinks a god will steal his belly button
he only showers 4 times a year
got scammed into buying his weird underwear
got scammed into buying like a bunch of expensive "crystal" balls at different times, basically falling for the same scam on a daily basis (because he manages to break them on a daily basis)
got sued by what is implied to be one of his ex girlfriends, but could be just any random girl (this is one of the many lawsuits against him)
there's more but i can't remember them all, feel free to reach out to me for proof btw but it might take a few hours for me to find them because i have. alot
Yasuhiro Hagakure for SHSL Cringefail propaganda!
