"Zenitsu is egocentric and views women as a prize"
Have you met him??? He isn't egocentric, he has a shattered ego. No one hates him more than he does!
And he doesn't view women as a prize, he's clingy and desperate with girls because he desperately craves love after a lifetime of abandonment, exploitation, and not receiving love.
And like, he does have really bad social skills, struggles to pick up on boundaries (but is apologetic when he realizes he's overstepped) and misses social cues a lot.
Being loud =/= egocentric.
When he begged that girl for marriage--which was wrong of him regardless of the reason, and the series doesn't pretend otherwise--he was having a meltdown and genuinely thought he was gonna die on his next mission. There's an entire LN story set pre-canon, and Zenitsu just wishes a girl who turns him down happiness.
"He blames others for his problems"
...The only time he can be considered to do this is early on when he gets mad at Tanjiro for "ruining his proposal". The rest of the time, he does not. It is not a pattern with him, and he's more likely to blame himself because of his extremely low self-esteem.
Zenitsu also listens to the criticism he receives from others--if he blamed others for his problems, he wouldn't do that.
"He reverted back because he got jealous of Sanemi!"
Zenitsu's arc was about becoming a brave person, which he does. This is never reverted. Using the scene with Sanemi is also ridiculous because those are his internal thoughts and he isn't doing anything. Jealousy is a normal human emotion.
While I think Inosuke had the weakest arc of the trio, he does grow. He learns to become more considerate of others over the course of the series.
"KNY fails the Hero's Journey--"
Bruh. That's because KNY is NOT a Hero's Journey/Coming Of Age story, it's a traditional good vs evil story that includes character growth. You are trying to criticize it based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the series as a whole, and it's clear you didn't understand the characters, either.
KNY critics are NOT beating "Media illiterate criticism" allegations.
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