Discussion
It's interesting that there's a form of manga exemplified by Lone Wolf and Cub and Golgo 13 that are about abssolute bastards. Vicious soulless, charmless killers.
However, these characters are also mercenaries and the stories generally revolve around them killing even worse people. In truth, the narratives are often studies in evil that end in blood baths.
That's not a story structure you get in the West. Western authors instinctively explain or contextualise.
So it's either 'character is a bastard but the whole system is rotten' like Wolf of Wall Street. Or 'character is rotten but charming' like Arsene Lupin. Or the grimdark moral fantasy that fuelled 00s epic fantasy like Prince of Thorns (everyone in this book is a bastard so you, thd reader, can feel better about being a self-serving piece of shit).
But very rare to find stories that are litterally about the joys of watching horrible elites get chewed up by a black-eyed assassin.
Raffles the Gentleman Thief is possibly the sole exception but those stories are masks off in so many ways. The only way in which they could be more on point is if Bunny and Raffles went to India to escape the consequences of their actions and wound up making a fortune by perpetrating massacres until they came into possession of a diamond mine and then just sat back and got rich working the locals to death.
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