is the raiden shogun the WORST archon? (in terms of writing) | genshin impact character analysis 

If Raiden Shogun had a harsher punishment or if we had the option to be mean to her and if other characters held her accountable I would dislike her less. But, I feel like I have to compensate for that fact she gets away with pretty much everything scot free. The injustice bothers me so much!

I really hated when she LITERALLY turned into a waifu material in her quests. I wanted to see much more of a strong personality, someone more harsh, not another waifu for the general base to simp for her. It also sucks how she deliberately ended a lot of people's lives, destroyed a shit ton on people mentally, she was a literal dictator who didn't cared about her own people and just for her goals didn't get ANY type of proper punishment. She just, you know, got away with it. Just like how she suddenly stopped being that determined woman, she also stopped being a "criminal".

I wish that Scaramouche's story quest tackles the relationship between him and Ei. I really want a confrontation. Scaramouche doesn't need to forgive her but we need to see Ei held accountable. You could argue she just lost many loved ones can't bear to get attached to someone again but it doesn't change the fact that she abandoned him. I just hope it's handled with care

This gets worse when you think about nahida, who was taken away by her people and locked up. This shows people don’t need to love their archon. So why do they still support the shogun after she indirectly killed a ton of people 😭

I really hate how the traveler immediately become best friends with her and wish we got to see their relationship develop through out the years (like xiao) but also idk when i see how genshin fandom react to traveler being slightly mean to childe and they way they hate on them for it for weeks I’m just like maybe it’s for the best that traveler become best friends with her 💀

Ei has left me incredibly conflicted, before I started Genshin, I saw her and went "Wow she's so cool looking and intimidating" and when I actually finished the archon quest I felt incredibly empty, conflicted and confused despite enjoying the ride. I really want to like her more but I often end up feeling indifferent about her if not conflicted. Its very clear that the Devs wanted to make her a Flawed character but not an irredeemable character. But given how much screen time they gave her and all the plot points they had simply couldn't be developed properly in that time. I biggest problem with her character is that for someone who is basically mourning FOR 500 YEARS, she is very calm, serious and stoic. I find it incredibly hard to believe that someone would be able to stay stock composed mentally especially when someone actively challenges her. I feel it would have been more compelling if she was so mentally worn down by the solitude that when we actually see her in her plane, she can't control her emotions, she's angry, she's sad, she's cold. Someone who needs to get out and seek help but is too stubborn and broken to do so, which would also lead to an interesting idea of "Does an archon need the help of others? They are Gods after all". The only issue with this idea of mine is that it would contradict all that we know about her and her story as of now and would require heavy re-writing which is just not feasible.

My other problem with her, is how much the game tries to force you to like her..Sure part 2, was nice but to me it was too little too late we waited 6 to 8 months for an update. I will never like this character, HOYOVERSE!! I would have liked her to remain a morally ambiguous archon, but nope Hoyoverse had to "waifu" her up for sales.

"Teppei is a badly written NPC" YES SAY IT LOUDER PLEASEEE GOSH, FINALLY Someone said this

They should have committed her to be a complete asshole character. Like the magnificent bastard character type that you LOVEEE to HATE. It also would've been refreshing to see an Archon like that after we've already met two dudes with typical sad pasts that are still good people. They tried too hard and achieved so little with Ei. I wouldn't mind if she was done well, but it's painful how they handle her. She got away so easily with so many deeds. She seems to barely do anything to recover the damage she does in comparison. Basically not terrible writing, just butchered up writing.

Comparing Ei and Scara regarding writing scara was much more well written. Regarding reform, taking accountability and working towards fixing what was done wrong (we wouldn't even have the 3.3 archon quest if scara didn't take accountability for what he did and try to fix it when he learned the truth. Man even said about apologizing to the raiden gokuden, who now didnt even know who he was as the story had been changed.) However, admittedly they are making amends regarding the people's reaction to her post-sakoku and Vision hunt decree. (Namely the tcg event where it shows that her people fear her.) My issues with her as a character start and end with her writing in the archon quest and story quests. That includes the second story quest for me however, i felt they paced it too fast to try and fix the mess the archon quest and 1st story created. Its clear they can handle it well. Including the traveler's reactions. (Again, look at scaramouche. How his story was handled.) I don't like her. I probably never will fully like her. But i don't hate her. I hate how she was written and i hate how her "reform" was handled because of the pacing, but her characterization is fine, admittedly a bit out of place to me because i feel they try to push the whole "innocent waifu" thing too much when theres a lot more to her character depth. (The fans are a big player in that however.)

I think with Furina now being an Archon, you can see that she isn't taken seriously, or, people can see that she's flawed and Neuvi legit reprimands her for trying to sneak out on the trial lol. I think Furina's handling is a really good change. It's a shame that NAHIDA of all archons was treated as trash/useless by her people/akademiya when she ironically was wanting to work the hardest. The issue is: Ei never has to DEAL with the fallout. Like, we aren't asking for her to be executed or imprisoned...but forcing her to SEE what SHE did through her ACTIONS to the people. Having her see struggling and starving people, having to see the destruction on Tsurimi island and Yashiori. Seeing the Furnace issue, having to see the shitty soil of Watatsumi and the desperation of the people there...SEEING the problems that she RAN AWAY from because she was sad and didn't want erosion to happen to her. Her idea of making the shogunbot to make sure the people of Inazuma always had a capable leader seems like a good idea, but it fucked them over so bad and allowed the Fatui to fuck around. Yes, some of the people in the commissions were corrupt and she "dealt with them" but it was so hollow. Everyone just kind of went back to business as usual. No one questioned Ei. If I had my family starve I'd be PISSED I wouldn't give a fuck if she was a god, like, people I loved starved and suffered for no fucking reason. That's so ridiculous. Like no, I"m not asking for her to be jailed, but like FORCE HER to see the the consequences of her actions, having her face the reality not just with the past but the present, and amend her ways. Be more active. Yes, become like Makoto: an active leader in real people's daily lives. Not some god figure, but a real leader that responds to the needs of her people.

They should've made Ei realize that she has achieved eternity already. By putting an unfeeling robot in charge of her country and cutting herself from the real world, she has literally put herself in a position where she cannot lose any loved one at all; because nobody can connect to her at that point. By pursuing eternity to avoid losing everyone else, she failed to see that she has put EVERYONE in inazuma in the same position she was in years ago. People lose their sons who are forced to use delusions to fight for their rights. Families have to watch their elders slowly go mad the longer they are away from their vision. Eventually, the whole country would become a ghost town just like that one island shrouded in fog. And by then will Ei only realize the eternity that she has sought for so long. When she was walking down the streets of Inazuma for the first time casually in years, people should've been VERY afraid and avoidant of her. If she tried to approach and apologize, the people should've been hostile and angry. Telling her the suffering she had put them through. Even I felt quite awkward watching her just order dessert after abolishing the decree. And the people are just "wow, the shogun isn't so scary after all." BITCHES??? THIS WOMAN HAS COMMITTED WAR CRIMES!!! I love Raiden Shogun, she was my very first 5 star and I was jumping when I beat the 50/50. But she deserves to be made accountable for her actions.

Honestly, it'd be a lot better if Ei actually did not know about the vision hunt decree ( because she locked herself up due to her grief ), and it was Raiden who was just executing orders poorly. It would make Ei a more believable "good person" and would explain why we end up being on friendly terms with her. Also, I believe it would make her story quest ( of getting to know the world around her and noticing that maybe change isn't that bad ) more emotional and cuter

I liked the analysis of Ei, and I agree with what you said. She is a complex character that has her potential kinda wasted in the beginning. Even so, she's able to grow to become a better archon or person. That would be why I felt emotional when Ei tackles with her grief more on the 2nd Quest. She has to face it, in order to move forward for the people of Inazuma. This makes me wonder on how Inazuma could've been rewritten, in terms of how the story went... After all, Act 3 kinda just rushed it all...

I just dont like the fact there seem to be no character or npc hating the raiden shogun after the vision hunt degree and civil war. It just didnt feel realistic that everyone seem to forget all those bad deeds instead of acknowledging them in some subtle ways.

i think the way that they tackled how grieving can affect people and make them stuck in the past was very good (i'm kinda going through that myself), but when you think about the fact that she basically caused a civil war in inazuma purely because she was grieving it's just like.. what..

I think the biggest issue with her is literally just WRITING. The devs wanted to have a strong imposing villain but at the end, they just tried to “waifu” her up which is stupid, genuinely. I would not mind a female character being an asshole, because it makes sense for Ei to kind of be like that because she’s a shut in. Hell, why not give the leader position to kujou Sara or someone else?

My personal issue with Raiden is to the point made about Nahida, that she always tried. Tried to live up to expectations, tried to be a leader, tried and tries to be there for her people. They never really show Raiden trying... the 'date' in her first quest was somewhat shallow, even if the concept made sense. The idea of her truely understanding the current Inazuma and accepting change is a good step forward, until it got solved immediately and there was the other plotline of dealing with corruption in the government. That's really as far as Ei goes to talk to her people, to try to be a better leader. She had 500 years, yet she chose to neglect reality. And that wouldn't be a problem if the game didn't try so hard to make you feel bad for her flaws. As if her flaws justify what she did during the entire main quest. I just can seem to have empathy for her when she never apologized to her people (I believe she said one sentence of apologies and that she would improve). The latest quest of 3.7 with the TCG tournament just proves she hasn't been trying at all. People are still afraid of her because Miko confirms that Raiden doesn't leave the palace. Yes, it makes sense for her being shy, introverted, or even scared of going out, but they don't tell us that. They don't give a reason, but they give her a sad back story so we should feel bad, or at least inclined to feel bad for her. This is just a rant. ty.

10:18 "People who started the game after 2.1 might have a different perception of the first story quest." As someone who didn't get to Inazuma until after update 3.0 was released, I can confirm that my perspective was a bit different. The first story quest felt like a necessary step in convincing Ei to change her mind... although I'm still disappointed that she was never held accountable for her actions. I also feel like comparing anyone to Nahida is unfair since Nahida is such a nice person. She makes practically everyone look bad.

Honestly my biggest issue with Ei is that she comes off as a bit of an idiot during her quests. In the main quest we resque Thoma so that's a fail on her part, Miko outsmarts her, her own generals lie to her, she disgards Scaramuche (granted that wasn't the worst idea but it still turned out terrible so im counting it), then she perceeds to walk around her war-torn nation for shits and giggles / a date AND THEN her own body just says shes a weak dumbass and rebels. I'm sorry but how am I supposed to think of her as cool or intimidating when it seems shes as dumb as a box of rocks. Compairing her to the other 2 archons out at the time makes this look even worse since venti for all his drunken partys always seems in control of the situation and zhongli straight up out plays the traveler and Liyue for a good chunk of his quests

13:53 "Even Venti, Mondstadt's resident alcoholic and absent archon, still cares a lot for his people" I always find this very frustrating. The idea that Venti being "absent" is a negative. Mondstadt is, by far, the most peaceful nation. Liyue has god remains, and sleeping gods (osial) just chilling around. Inazuma has Ei, and 3/6 Islands are completely uninhabitable (Yashiori, Seirai, Tsurumi), while another can't even grow food (Watatsumi), and another is a military base (Kannazuka), just surviving is a miracle there. Sumeru has/had Sages and Eleazar and the tainted wildlife. Fontaine has the water dissolving people prophecy, an insane legal system that changes daily with crazy specific laws like "you can't have flying objects in the city during the first 3 days of the month". Generally, when the fandom is asked where they'd like to live if they lived in Teyvat, most people say Mondstadt. Mondstadt is in an AMAZING state. It was truly built by people, and for people. Venti became their archon by fighting against a tyrannical dictator. He fought alongside humans, and was a witness to what humans are capable of. Ultimately, he decided that as an archon, he should not do anything to overstep human's authority because humans are fully capable of ruling themselves and FOUGHT to rule themselves. He fought alongside them so they COULD rule themselves, his friend died so humans could rule themselves. And he was RIGHT. LOOK at Mondstadt. The only time he overstepped human's rule was when some corrupt humans were enslaving other humans, thus those slaves were not able to be free like he and his friend fought for all those years ago. The problem however, with letting humans rule themselves, is that an archon's power is tied to how much they "rule", as stated by Venti. He is still strong enough to protect the nation when it needs protecting from god-like powers (Durin), but it takes a LOT out of him. When he is "absent" for hundreds of years, it's because he is basically in a COMA recovering from whatever fight he was just in. When we first enter Mondstadt, we see Venti trying to talk to Dvalin, aka Stormterror. He was trying to get Stormterror to stop threatening Mondstadt on his own, and only really involved Aether and Favonius when he realized the purification abilities. The reason why Venti isn't in a coma right now and is able to sing and perform for his people as nothing more than a humble bard is because he trusted a select few of his people to help him. But he would've fought alone to the point of century-long-unconsciousness if he had to, as he always has. Honestly Venti is a VERY interesting character for me. He is a god, and he made the active choice to be weaker because he believes in his people. He spends decades, if not centuries in recovery after bigger battles where humans need some support. He sits in the seat of "the anemo archon" solely to stop anyone else from taking that throne and dictating Mondstadt. He wants none of the power of archonhood, and his people don't want an active archon either. He spends his days among his people, or sleeping in recovery after saving his people. It feels unfair to say he is "absent" as a detraction when the reason he's absent is because he was hurt/completely exhausted while fulfilling his duties. Tying him with Signora's lore also opens up a fun conversation of "What is really fair to expect of a god?" But I've gone and written an essay now. Whoops lmao.

So, I found this video after making a joke about how Raiden's Gnosis has more plot development than its owner. In my eyes, what puts her story in the negative is how disappointed I was with the execution of the plot. I can see what caused everything to happen in the quests, so I didn't feel disconnected with some of the things she did, because they were things I expected, but in the end I couldn't help but feel that everything that happened was just ridiculous. I find the comparisons to Nahida outside of the memes somewhat ridiculous as well. Sumeru was better executed than Inazuma, that's all.

Although Nahida's body is under house arrest, she is connected to Irminsul after all, and she can sneak into children's dreams at night to communicate with them, which allows her to maintain her knowledge and innocence at the same time. It's a shame that Devs still wants Raiden to be a Waifu after all, and I kind of want to see her portrayed as a harsh, ruthless but determined, principled archon. Her plot references Akira Kurosawa's "Kagemusha" and Japanese mythology's Ama-no-Iwato.

I super agree. I had many problems hearing her story. Introuncing a dark plot but being scared to actually commit to kill a meaningful character, turning Teppe into a disposable prop to try manipulate the kokoro and turning Ei silly and nice. Ignoring the established darkness and suffering. (Also add Delusions to the list of unexplained, vague and unknown "painful somehow" diseases of Tevat. Next to Karmic Debt, Forbidden Knowledge, Yang energy and Adeptus energy radiation.. thing.) I feel that her being a competent super stern and dedicated cold WARRIOR directly conflicts with her response to grief alone for 500 YEARS. I'd expect her becoming more of a dictator, Big Brother type, but no.. Inazuma was mostly fending for itself. Ironically, eroding fast from the inside. I know loss is... unhealable, to say the least. But an avarage healthy human can "move on" to some level from it in under 10-20 years of the death. This feels weird to me;; Maybe Dainslief is right about the gods... And also, if the obsession was to keep things as they are, the obvious mathematical answer is... temporal stasis. Find the God of time, stop time forever. Erosion stopped. Eternity achieved. Clearly quality of life wasn't her focus. Ironically leaving Inazuma to literally erode as she found her answers in her own head (which she didn't have) felt like an oroborus of ignorance (but yeah she's Intelligent not Wise, i get that much). At least leaving a nation frozen would've stifled much of the people's suffering while she pondered... idk And like you stated, we left Zhongli and Venti who are great Archons in their own little way, despite their loss, flaws and DEEP suffering.... she was too much of an sudden sharp offset. By the time she found her answer there wouldn't have been an Inazuma. Maybe because she's lejitimately an amazing engineer (friggen made live puppets) she thought she could find the answer... like how scholars think? But yeah, I just gave up and submitted to the feel-good story they wanted to tell with her silly sides and redemption, because there's A LOT of plots Inazuma has not resolved. And I don't want my OCD to keep beating a dead horse xD. Also you're right. I don't feel bad for Kazuha's friend. He knew what he was getting into. Touchy feely nakama story but also... sorry bruh :T ya played yerself. GG though.

ei reminds me of younger zhongli, both were warriors and more brawny while having someone else to rely on for all the thinking (zhongli had guizhong and ei had makoto) however their other half died and they had to take up the role of leader they were not so fit for. They also weren't so good at handling grief, zhongli literally sliced off a portion of the mountain right behind liyue harbour where most of his people lived which aint really big brain. The difference being zhongli had years to learn to be that leader and had a good support system with all the adeptus while ei went into meditation and didnt really have that support system with how literally her whole friend group died. I like to think ei would've turned out similar to zhongli later on or if she was luckier.

To be fair Ei had a life before she isolated herself, while Nahida was isolated immediately

Ei is the only archon that wasn't fully developed until she takes on her redemption ark that helps her to grow. I enjoyed the quest, however, the damage was too great and she went too far. Similar to a serial murderer who commit murders because of their beliefs, and then realize they are at fault. Will people forgive them and let them walk free if they simply publicly announce that they were wrong, they have changed and they like sweets? (Given the Inazuma brain washing education about shogun is always best and shogun protects inazuma, the residents there will most likely to blindly believe in her). Moreover, what is good about eternity when her people are suffering, and she knows fully well about it and did nothing. Whats eternity when she created her puppet son and just leave him to rot? There were so much pain and grief that she has caused to whole nation. She is able to be like this because she is a God and no one can actually keep her in check, and that makes it a very scary place to live in, because at the end of it, the whole nation is still living under her mercy, when she has shown she is fully capable of being uncaring to her people for years on end. (I vaguely remember she said something along the lines of 'you wake me up just to talk about these people? I know they are suffering btw, laugh out loud'). People rarely change fully, certainly not after they try some sweets, talk to some random people, and finish a fight. (Granted the story mentioned her fight with baal lasted a long time off screen) Moving forward, I think there should be more redemption arks that aims at repairing the damages, starting with scaramouche.

I feel like the big thing that hindered Raiden Shogun’s story was the Inazuma Archon quest. The entire problem was that there wasn’t enough time to develop multiple concepts in the story. Also Ei’s first character quest would have been more interesting if 1. Ei got more opinions from different sources for what Inazuma was like. 2. She actually took a look at the devastation that the civil war had caused.

Bruh Nahida went through worse than Ei but she did a better job at being an archon

I don't think Ei is a bad character, I just think she's a victim of Hoyo's sloppy writing. Her first character story was trash so the full weight of the resolution of her trauma was thrushed into her Second Character story. And in it she learned to heal from her personal trauma but we never got true reconcilliation with her people. So it feels like only half the work was actually done. Ei haters use that as ammo to demonize her while Ei Stans will equally downplay and brush it aside. I think my biggest issue at the end of the day is Hoyo now treats her people legitimately fearing that she'll kill them over the smallest slight as a punchline just like they did in the 3.7 TCG event.

Personally I still can't believe she's the most popular character in the game, her design is so bland and underwhelming considering the build up we had prior to Inazuma and it's Archon being a powerfull warrior dictator, Inazuma's archon quest was sooooo bad and honestly her personality is so bland and boring as well, plus the whole thing with the puppet shogun and her mind dimension just feel like random noise that adds nothing to her character, it was already enough with her having a long dead twin sister who was the former electro archon, the puppet shogun ends up being a random gimmick to inflate the story and get away with the blame for everything bad she did for Inazuma, having half of a character's actions being brushed off to and empty shell that just "follows instructions" and acts without thinking is just stupid writting, hell specially when Ei is directly responsable for creating the Shogun puppet and allowing it to do everything it did under her instructions. I honestly think this is just a case of the game brainwashing people into liking her with her dmg numbers and the story shoving her in your face saying "look she's cool and and has big boobs you HAVE to like her"

Raiden is childish, selfish and cowardly, to run away from negative feelings is childish and cowardly(not to mention foolish), to do so at the expense of your people is selfish, she is responsible for a bunch of dumb stuff, if elon makes a robot and that robot kills someone, we would hold elon accountable, if someone commits a crime without knowing its a crime, they are held accountable, Ei should be ostracized for her incompetence and be reduced to a mysterious wanderer stricken with grief and anger (it would've made her character so much more interesting) either that or just falsify her death like zhongli and then learn from other people, mortals and fellow archons alike

In my opinion, Ei is lucky to have people like the Traveler and Yae Miko to take care of her, otherwise the people would have rebelled against her, maybe not in 10, 50 or 100 years, but it would happen eventually. Remembering that, with Decarabian, God of the Storm, it took 400 years for the people to rebel against him, even though he had much more valid reasons to keep the people trapped inside the Old Mondstald.

Ei is the prime example of what you get when you put a warrior in charge of a kingdom instead of a wiseman. Makoto was the brains and heart of inazuma while Ei was the muscles. When the former passed away, the latter was no more than a grieving woman who has no clue on how to rule other than through battle. The Shogun is the robot that embodies and amplifies these negative traits and she ruled with an iron fist.

Finally someone that calls out Raidens horrible behavior. Love the video hope you make more!

I absolutely hate her character, she's like a villain that they're trying so hard to excuse. I didn't pull her the first time because she was my most hated character. unfortunately I know need her gameplay wise

My biggest grief with Ei, which is admittedly based on memories and emotions from 2 years ago, is how the story quest kept trying to pose her as the antagonist but also not really. First they show how bad the people suffer because of their archon's persistance and then theres a storyline about how its actually the fatui and kujo clan manipulating the information Raiden recieves- but no she just goes "yeah I know they changed the facts I wasnt manipulated just truely believed in it" and then Yae shows up all like "Actually Ei is in the puppet and has no idea what the puppet has been doing" and then when we tell Ei about it she just goes "yeah duh Im obviously aware of what my body is doing I just dont think shes wrong" and then her character is just left this muddled "I know my puppet made decisions that harmed people in a council that ignored multiple facts that harmed people and Im totally agreeing with it" so you can fight her but also still have no idea of anything so you could take her on a date and shed be this cute waifu that has nothing to do with the character the story was failing at building up. I wouldnt say shes a bad character when compared to the people who showed up only in their profiles and single story quest like Itto or Eula, if you take the deep dive into her profiles and the history of the nation shes pretty cool, just like you said, and the story certainly did dirty to more characters like Kokomi and Gorou. She just had the biggest bad role in this story and thats the first impression and maybe only impression for some I just feel like the writers tried to have their cake and eat it too with Ei and it ruined the whole plot that was set up. Instead of being fully aware and still resolved in her persuit of eternity no matter the cost she was unaware of what the nation is like and a snack, camera, light novels and ambitions she was knew were stolen prove to her not all change is bad and also the changes she made were bad. Instead of being a victim manipulated by those who understood the puppet's code or disconnected ruler unaware of the consenquences of her persuit she keeps time and time again claim she knows everything and that nothing surprises her because her eternity is beyond the vision holders ambitions or anyone in any generation that may currently suffer.

tbh what pissed me off with what the writers did with her character is how all the other playable inazuman characters, her citizens (excluding kokomi) didn't seem to dislike her or see her in an unfavourable light, in their voicelines, after what she put them through? Its like magically all of them forgot the mistakes tht took place during her rule and while yea noone can punish or hold her accountable since she's the Archon, it would have been interesting if one of these characters disliked Raiden but can't voice out their distaste because she's their ruler. But noooo, everyone has to like the traveller and every other character because that is how they can emphasise how much of a "misguided" and depressed waifu she was instead of a flawed ruler. Thankfully sumeru has gotten better in tht regards, but i atleast hoped for one of the inazuman characters' be like "yea no not a big fan of the Shogun she's basically a tyrant and dgaf abt us but she's trying to change now ig" instead of all of them suddenly acting like everything she's done is for their benefit and praises abt how she is a good ruler (just why..) in their voicelines after the archon quest ends. Im not saying these characters should have gone out and tried to assassinate her or some bs, they could have made some of the characters say they feel iffy around Raiden in the voicelines. Its ok if one character dislikes another because thats how people are and it makes them have more complex and interesting interactions and dynamics with one another. I think hyv tried to do this with itto and Ayato, with Ayato's english va depicting the "About Arataki Itto" voiceline in a way tht it felt like he found Itto very intrusive and too overfriendly and overbearing despite Ayato not being close enough to him (idk if this was intentional or not). I loved this iteration of the voiceline sm compared to the backlash it got from the rest of the community cuz no Ayato has no obligation to like Itto just because majority of the players find him lovable because he is a goofy, himbo and impulsive dork. I don't blame Ayato, because as an introvert i would be hella pissed if someone i barely talked to once, would be too overfriendly and try to force being friends with them (despite, once again not being very close to that person and only after having talked to them a handful number of times)

I feel like Ei stuck out compared to Zhongli and Venti because she's kind of at the start of her journey, unlike those two who were already kind of at the end of it and already went through their development The execution wasn't great in the archon quest but her second story quest like you said is genuinely really good and it makes me want more serious Ei content Too bad she's relegated to events now to be Miko's accessory but I still have hope I guess 😅 Great video, your channel deserves more subs, this was a great analysis of Ei

Now, being serious here: Furina really looks like a fraud when we see her acting, but she at least seems to be TRYING to help her people, unlike Ei, who still has to do something.

I think Ei getting away with everything she did could also be a parallel to Japan also getting away with the crimes they committed in WWII. I completely agree she should’ve been held accountable though; OR because she’s not held accountable as of now, they should’ve explored the theme much deeper with Inazuman NPCs and the effect she’s had on the country and her people (ik the world quests all somehow correlate back to her, but it’s not enough to be in junction her personal writing as a character).

the thing that messes me up the most about Ei is the side quests about the ex soldiers and the people who had to leave their homes. like... I cared more about the kid in the abandoned mining town than the guy that died in the rebellion lol

So, the thing with "holding her accountable" and "Watsumi Island calling her out," I don't think people really understand how complex the issue is. Inazuman's were not rebelling against the Raiden Shogun, the were rebelling against a decree (arguably two, though I don't know how much they hated the Sakoku Degree). She is still, in their eyes, the divine Shogun, a god who rules by right. They likely don't find her to be infallible or unquestionable, but they aren't going to see themselves as capable of "holding her to account." As far as the Watsumi Islanders go, I don't understand why people keep lumping them in with Inazumans. They are their own sovereign nation, with their own religion, god, and political structure. They rebelled against the Shogunate because, in thier view, the Shogunate is a foreign invader. I have 0 doubt that if deserters and rebels didn't escape to Watsumi, and if the Shogunate didn't try to enforce the decrees on Watsumi, that Watsumi island would have sat back and let Inazuma tear itself apart. I might view the entire Ei debate differently because I rolled into Genshin during 2.7, but outside the Fatui feeling forced into the story, I didn't have a problem with the Inazuma Archon quest. Not saying it was perfect or riveting, but I found it serviceable. I also don't see Ei as Pon Waifu, but then again I also don't see Xiao as Edgy, so maybe I'm just out o step with the rest of the player base.

My complaint with Raiden has never been her being a “bad archon” when it comes to leadership. Personally, I love the idea of her being a bad archon. But, for a character who spent 500 years in self reflection, she sure doesn’t seem to do a lot of introspection. I just wish the story was more accepting of those who didn’t feel like she made up for her past actions yet. It can take a person out of the story when you’re thinking “how tf is purchasing dango making up for killing ur sister” and paimon is like “wow, what a helpful archon” and your only options in response are “yup” and “i agree!” And, as mentioned in the video, the lack of backlash from in-game characters doesn’t help, though in my head I always saw it as a “she can cut you down in a second, i’m not sure if criticizing her to her face is the best way give feedback” kind of way. Honestly, I want an archon that we’re supposed to dislike, and it seems like the only opportunity for that will be the fire one, which is definitely going to rub me the wrong way if that is the case 😅

Good call, and sure the character of her does excuse SOME aspects however, her actions still did affect the people of Inazuma and although her loss of Makoto hurt, she was still given the role and responsibilities of the Raiden Shogun as well as being Inazuma’s Archon. I don’t hate Ei nor Raiden Shogun but there is a line she walked and the writing isn’t quite well fleshed out.

This is extremely detailed information about the Raiden Shogun and encapsulated perfectly what was people’s misconceptions about her, 10/10 would watch again.

I think there's a large chunk of the video where "good person" and "good (well-written) character" got mixed up. Imo Ei is neither, but I honestly couldn't care less whether character is morally good or not if they're well-written and offer something to the overall narrative. And Ei just gives me conniptions. I absolutely hate the puppet "twist", this is the most blatant example of Hoyo trying to have their cake and eat it too. Imagine if Ei was an anti-villain, a stubborn up in her ass despot who deals with problems in the most direct way possible - by slicing them in two. But no, we need a clear antagonist, but we also need a marketable product, how convenient that we have Fatui as our disposable villains of the week to blame everything on. What's that? Ei's personal trauma from losing someone very close? Resolved just as fast as it's introduced. Also what was Miko doing for 500 years of Ei's questionable rule? Was she just waiting for protagonist to show up and solve everything? And she's supposed to be smart and conniving type? Inazuma is just so all over the place. So many undercooked potentially great characters, themes, ideas, etc, it's like they were scrambling for a deadline and threw everything they could find into a pot without thinking how it would mash together. Also it's most likely a hot take, but I don't think Raiden's second story quest does anything good for Ei either, because it the goddamn double think potrayal where she's both a rutless indomitable warrior and a highly emotional younger sister. The vague "eternity" is a nonsense she came up with to overcompensate her loss is fine, but not if she genuinely believed and never questioned it deep down. Which makes her look stupid - "Wow, Inazuma changed over 500 years, who would've thought". Adding to that the great toll of her idiocy on people of Inazuma (which btw is never addressed in the story) and you start questioning whether archons are the good guys after all.

I love her story but I feel instead of a walk around town her first story quest is her being forced to face the consequences of her actions more, and I'm hoping that happens for Focalors

She's just too complex a character for most people to understand, and can't help to put the other archons on pedestals even though they also have their faults. It's also annoying how people defend the other archons with the same reasons that can be used to defend Raiden

You hit the nail on the head with her first story quest, I started a few months ago and took my time doing the character quests. So playing it after doing events around Liyue again for a while made it a very cute story quest that does well to humanize her and works to establish the groundwork for her second, absolutely amazing, character quest. It probably helps though that from the beginning I cared most about her internal characterization and her dynamic and interactions with Yae, so some of the issues people had with it slowing down the story didn't really bother me very much (moreso the lazy Fatui twist bugged me).

The problem with Ei is every quest that involved her only make her look dumb, ignorant, and stupid. - She claimed she know everything that happened outside but still proceed with her eternity pursuing anyway. But then except the effect on people who lose vision, she barely addressed other problem like civil war, commission corruption, fatui infiltration, etc as if she's oblivious of them. It make you think whether she actually know everything or she think she know everything even though she don't know anything. - At first she's shown as this determined woman who pursue her ideal of eternity even at cost of her people, only for her to be convinced in 5 minutes by Yae and traveler. If it can be done that easy then what her people suffered for? Her quest make it even worst. The idea itself isn't wrong but the timing is bad. It basically played down the suffering of her people as it only worth a dango milk, light novel, and kamera to change her mind. It should be the people's suffering and strong will to face the future as opposed to her who trapped in the past. - Her decision to abandoned Scaramouche is pure ignorance. Yae has warned her and yet she still do it and even see herself as giving him a chance to choose his path freely without her interference. She literally let this sentience being with a body that able to hold god's power roaming free just like that. 'But he isn't supposed to be awake in the first place', if that's the case then it make Ei even more stupid for placing him in a place that easily accessible by human instead hiding him in some hidden ruin or secret dungeon. - Back to Ei's story quest. Comparing her to Nahida is an insult since Nahida is just too good. But it can't be help because she is the only newborn archon so far, compared to her Ei is as old as her sister which is one of original archon. Yet, why in that particular part of her character quest, she act like some clueless 5 yo who never left her house. She's oblivious as to why people scared of her, didn't knkw how money works, and have no idea what fiction mean. The only acceptable one is kamera since it's a brand new technology. The other is, something that someone who's live for thousands of years should more or less aware even if she didn't understand the concept completely. The excuse of her being a god or introvert isn't good anough since it didn't explain why she act even more clueless than Nahida when she's literally just born. Did the 500 years of seclusion corroded her brain or what? Talking about stupid archon, we now have Furina who also not the brightest archon out there. But compared to Ei which just a total mess of several character troupe being half cooked into one, the way they show Furina character is just way better. She's dumb, yes, and sometimes childish, yes, and that's exactly why she's not the one in charge of her nation. Her people loves her and worship her, but they also just view her as a symbol, an idol, or even a mascot instead of someone they should fear and dedicated their lifes for. This is how it should look like when a deity figure is supposedly flawed. The lack of part where Ei is being confronted by Inazuma people for the result of her mistake which make it looks like she get off easily is straight out bad.

I think people complaining that Ei wasn't held accountable are thinking of Archons as political leaders, forgetting that Archons are literally gods. To the traveller (and, by extension, the player), Archons are just your regular Joe, but to the people that live in their nations they are divine beings. How do you even hold a God accountable? It's not like you can depose them as your Archon - not unless you feel you're capable of defeating them in battle. Which, let's face it, they aren't. Not *her*. To quote that one Kujo dude, "what would they do against the power of the Almighty Raiden Shogun and the Musou no Hitotachi?" And that's a *feeling* people have. They worship her. They revere her. They fear her. She's the person they PRAY to. The reason why Watatsumi Island was the only one to rebel was because they don't practice the same religion as everyone else. They say in Kokomi's story quest that the relationship between Narukami Island and Watatsumi Island has been tense for centuries because the Raiden Shogun killed Orobashi, *their* God. And even though they were technically absorbed into Inazuma politically, in practice they remained very much independent. The rest of Inazuma was run by the three commissions, but Watatsumi Island was run by the Divine Priestess. They perceive the Archon's rule as a foreign power and, as a result, are WAY less loyal to her. It also doesn't make sense to compare her to Nahida because, thanks to the Akasha, Nahida had a direct window to her people's lives and memories. Nahida was not revered by her people, and the contact she had with them was interacting with children in their dreams. Of course she would be sympathetic and want to protect her people and see their lives and existences as valuable; specially because, being locked up, she didn't really have an existence/life of her own. I do think it's weird that the Traveller goes straight into friendship so quickly but it also happened with Childe, so I'm starting to think the fights to death maybe aren't as big of a deal for them as they'd be for me 😂 Ei isn't a bad character - as in, badly written. The way her people react to her makes perfect sense when you consider the broader context. It's just that, morally, she really isn't *good*, but that doesn't mean she is poorly written.

I think the thing that made me hate her story arc and character is the lack of remorse she seems to have (no real redemption, no real punishment, no remorse...). That's why she will always be my least favorite archon (I don't think we will get worse), and the fact that she had countless fans saying that she was the best character and that she did nothing wrong didn't help ^^"

I hate this lame excuse boo hoo my friends died so i became a dictator. She is actually the worst written character and other Inazuma characters not much better. Like genius Kokomi, who is dumb as a rock, and righteous Sara who had no problem sinking sivilian ships

The thing I'm most looking forward about in terms of character story, is the development of Ei and Wanderer's relationship. I hope it gets addessed. Also, Anne Yatco's work on Raiden second story quest, is my favorite in the game by far. I don't get how that isn't something people talk about more. She did voice for three extremely similar, and at the same time different characters, and nailed each one

we need more character analysis like this. This amazing insight, instant subscribed.

one other thing, the anti- raiden shogun training you do had me stuck for LITERALLY 5 MONTHS! i haven’t seen many other people with this issue and i thing its because i play on mobile but omg it was just a terrible experience overall

I am someone who loves morally grey characters! But lack of consequences makes me kinda annoyed? It just waters things down relationship wise. That’s why Raiden and Childe annoy me, especially when [spoilers] Lyney and Lynette did less but got way more consequences when we were super buddy-buddy with someone who not only did way worse but obviously hasn’t changed.

I love your cute drawings of the characters, great video

I love the idea behind her character. A woman who has been so scarred by the losses she faced that she turns her back on the real world around her desperately trying to create a essentially nation frozen in time so nothing bad happens ever again. I love tragedy, I should add. This aspect of her character is also why I really enjoyed her second story quest. Sadly, I can't say the same about the resolution of inazuma's archon quest. I wish we could go back in time and get the 5 acts that seem to be the standard now because it desperately needed them. It was all so... anticlimactic. For a god so stuck in her ideals it caused a civil war in her nation a single meeting with miko should not have done... all that. Especially since a lot of the changes in inazuma occur basically off screen and are never addressed again. Yes the sakoku and vision hunt decree are lifted but... that's so... impersonal? The ending of that archon quest felt like almost nothing got resolved character wise. (I'd bring up too how Ei never properly was held to justice or to take responsibility of the lives lost in her ignorance/absence but the people have already done that enough here) and even tho we got some reconciliation between watatsumi and narukami island in Kokomi's quest it was all so... nothing. Everything in inazuma was so rushed and it makes me so sad that it makes what could've been a great story so weird and messy. I like Ei's second story quest and the overall theme of her character but how we get there is absolutely painful Edit: I found a better way of finalizing my thoughts. I think what bothers me is that she just kinda... changes. For almost no reason. I just wish she would've maybe seen all the death and destruction her decision caused to her own people. We know she cares for inazuma and thought that what she was doing was the only right way. So have her own people change her mind. Make inazuma the reason she changes. Yk... the nation she fought for. Have her start walking on the path of redemption like that. Just... anything but what actually happened

Honestly I think the main problem is just how fast it happened and how little resistance their was to change, like one thibg I would have liked to see in retrospect would be something like the Shogun seeing Yae as a threat to eternity during the first quest with Ei while checking out her book store causing the Shogun to want to get rid of Yae which goes against the reason why she wanted eternity in the first place which could make Ei realize the cost of "eternity" and have that be about moment of reflection as perhaps the reason why she was so apathetic to her people's suffering is because it was not personal as the people of watasuni were technically not a part of her nation and they were mainly the ones who opposed her. Another thing I think the story could have done better was to make Ei find out that Makato dying when she did was the better outcome for her as Celestial would have made her kill her sister to be recognized of the electro archon since the war was about the strongest god not the best god.

While I wish Raiden was handled differently, people in the comments saying "I wish she was punished" or "she got people killed with no consequences" are missing the point. This is not a modern society, with a legal system, and trials, this is medieval, fantasy Japan. You can't punish the literal, unstoppable god, who can cleave an island in half with her sword. "I wish traveler could be mean to her-" Her power literally sent Traveler into shock after Signora's execution. You think the traveler would have the balls to be hostile to her after that? My wish for her is that she'd abolish the vision hunt, but remain a strict shogun, still not accepting any nonsense, and that traveler, and everyone, remained intimidated by her.

I love your editing style and narration. And that Inazuma counter is beautiful.

Just discovered your videos and I am absolutely in love with them. Please make more of these and keep up the good work! Love you

My take on Ei's story and her character development is akin to someone suffering from grief and depression. The cataclysm scarred her so in a way that it reinforced her ideals of eternity, hence why Raiden did the Sakoku Decree and the Vision Hunt, as both of them tries to enforce her ideals of eternity. One thing that I believe a fair amount of players might overlook is the "Plane of Euthymia" - why was this name chosen? This intrigued me a lot, as on mental health, euthymia would mean the normal humor - in a way that person still feels emotions, but all in a normal range. The answer lies in the philosophical realm, where it is defined as the state of mind where you believe in yourself and trust the path chosen is the correct one, without ever doubting by other paths you could have taken. The greatest irony of it all in Ei's decision is that her unwavering belief was reached by isolating herself - so it begs the question - has she truly reached euthymia? Or was she in an apathetic state that made her shut herself in her own world? Her 500 year fight with Raiden has two purposes - one more explicit, where she fights to prove her changes are not due to Erosion, and another, more metaphorical, where it is a struggle against herself, and overcoming that state she was previously in takes time and a lot of commitment to make it true. Part 1 and 2 of her Story quest reveals to us her change of view and ideals, and her inner struggle to overcome her grief. She still needs to prove her changes in palpable results. This is reflected on how there are still mistrust between both Resistance and Shogunate army in Kokomi's story quest and how the civil war ravaged the land. Sadly, Hoyo could have made a better story quest for Kokomi, fleshing out these aspects in a more compelling way.

She's a good character trapped in a shit story, many such cases At least her second story quest was way better

i really love how you analysed this and i am surprised that you are so underrated. this was an incredible analysis, it made me subscribe immediately

your artwork in this video is so good and gives it a lot of personality!

Ppl who defend her actual character and say shes the "best archon" are srsly just so down bad for her (we know why 😮‍💨🙄) and its so sad but funny lol idk i think we all know here shes been a horrible leader and archon

My favorite fan comic will always be (I wish I could find it again): Scara: all right, Buer, let’s practice you being my new mother. Nahida: I don’t wanna be your mother. Scara: awesome, you already know the lines.

I would also like to add that different people deal differentely with death. Great video!

i love your videos

Didn't the Tenryou ppl literally lie to her in their reports? So she really didn't know the full scope of what was going on.

In my opinion, Ei is a genuinely interesting character who deserves to be explored more thoroughly but it seems Hoyoverse prioritizes her being marketable as a waifu before anything else, so that means neutering the more flawed parts of her character. I'm sorry but her first quest really is like a date, you talk to her as if she wasn't dead-set on killing you a while ago, proceed to take her on the most casual stroll around town; and somehow a few novels, Inazuma's present appearance along with a camera manages to make her begin to reflect on herself, not the citizens that she hurt. Then when you come back you have to play captain-save-a-hoe when her sudden change in ideals forces her into a 500 year long battle with her puppet. Yes I do know the other parts of the story in her second quest contribute to her change, but it happens way too fast to hold any significant merit. To be honest I think that if her first story quest actually showcased the consequences of her actions, with the Traveler being uneasy around her and her citizens being visibly terrified of or straight up avoiding her; her second would've hit so much harder.

There seems to be a disconnect between people saying Inazuma should oust their archon like Sumeru did to Nahida and that Raiden never faces consequences for killing a ton of people. That's the point she is able and willing to kill people to stay the archon. Her people have to do what she decrees. She literally commands lightning itself and decapitated a snake the size of an island. Nahida doesn't have that kind of power, and even if she did, she wouldn't use it against her own people.

I think what they TRIED to do with her was interesting. The problem of the last part of the Inazuma Archon Quest being terribly paced definitely hurt things, but they had a chance to course-correct in her story quests, which they managed to a degree. My biggest problem is that we don't see very much of her confronting the problems that she created by becoming the biggest shut-in of all time. This is 500 YEARS of suffering, and we only see her take a small look at what happened in the present day. While it would be nice for the people of Inazuma to hold her more accountable, I think that having some time to see her actively holding herself accountable (outside of her second story quest, which was the MINIMUM of what she could do) would go a long way to show that she does indeed feel guilty and recognize the damage her actions have caused. There's SO MUCH story potential in an absent goddess returning to the mortal realm and personally correcting the mistakes she made over the course of the 500 years she was gone, but we only see a sliver of it. That's why I don't like her: the little that she has done to correct her mistakes was certainly nice, but it isn't even close to being enough to redeem her. As it stands, she made one correctional decision and promises to do vague work to improve things, but until we see that, it comes across as if she's done next to nothing.

raidens actions mostly harmed the vision holders,who are few in number to the general population so makes sense why there were so few people involved in the war

Honestly same about Teppei... I see people "grieving" him or whatever... But tbh I care more about the random ghost girl (Little Seven? Nine? it was definitely a number) I met in a worldquest in Liyue than Teppei. I care _infinitely_ more about Neko the cat than I do about Teppei.

The most poetic justice for Raiden would have been to exile her. Take away her Electro Archon status, and force her to be a wanderer in foreign lands for all eternity; never to return to Inazuma.

Thank you for speaking I feel so heard right now 😢

I personally love her character but I understand your points. I thought the first story quest of her felt like a dating sim and it would have been more interesting if she stayed a morally ambiguous character instead of just magically becoming besties with the traveler. I hate to say this but Hoyoverse could definitely have written her better tbh-

Let's be real she is just a money-maker character for the company, let those simps swipe their credit cards for the booba sword

Hoyo, I DEMAND a complete rewrite/reboot of the Inazuma arc, NOW!

In the past, I hated Ei not just because she was a dictator, but because of how I thought everyone just swept everything she did under the rug, even Mihoyo, just because she was cute. Honestly when I got to Inazuma and went through the first few quests, I had this feeling of "man, it would really suck to live here... everyone's either suffering or blind by worship because of the shogun". That's to say, looking back I really came to appreciate how good the writting was, yes there were some bumps, but I came to like how Ei was written, not like her just because mihoyo tried to speedrun a redemption arc in her first quest.

People of Narukami Inazuma probably don't hate her much because Sakoku and Vision hunt decrees are only around for 2 years and she has been fighting for Inazuma since the very first days of it. And the one who tried to fight against her was Watatsumi Island, whose God for no reason attempted to invade their land to them. (only Traveller, Paimon and Celestia knows the reason currently. I dunno if Kokomi knows). If you explore further into detail, you will notice Ayaka only showed us the ones who have gone mad after loosing to persuade the Traveller who refused to help at first and there are people who had no effect at all. Example - the Samurai at Komore teahouse, Arataki Itto. Only people of Watatsumi and Yashiori island were painfully devastated by the War. Even after all of this I don't defend her option or the writing of Archon quest. Ei was indeed a failed clone of Obito Uchiha.

As someone who really loves Scaramouche a lot I just... cannot stand her for what she has done to him. Grief is no excuse to abandon a being that mentally was a literal child in this way. She should have at least given him to some foster parent instead of just abandoning him. It would have been a better way of handling this situation. But she didn´t even tried and just...let him fend for himself with nothing not even tiny guidance or teaching of the workds workings. She created something that was her responsibility and messed it up so badly ...which was a catalyst for the stuff he went trough and his actions. She isn´t responsible for what he did to Inazuma but she laid the seeds for it. I am still hoping she has to take accountability for that in the story.

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I definitely remember being dissatisfied with Act 3 of the Archon quest and her first story quest as a launch player myself. During Acts 1 and 2, we had ample time to explore places like Yashiori island and read about the harrowing experiences of the citizens outside of Narukami island who were displaced or suffered during the war. I was looking forward to seeing how the story would address all this and I was disappointed to see that none of it was ever even mentioned during Act 3 or even during Raiden's story quest. Making her a detached and nonchalant ruler would have been perfectly fine with me, as we can see how she got to that point having suffered loss after loss over her lifetime. But neither of the story quests really forced her to awknowledge the pain her decree caused to ordinary citizens outside of the main island, which I can't help but feel was a missed opportunity. All that being said, I think the reason she never really got directly punished for her actions was because she's still pretty much the strongest being in Inazuma (as far as we know at the moment), so the citizens would still see her as the one most placed to protect their country regardless. The most punishment I can see her getting is her stepping down from leadership and literally just being a general like Sara. The fact that Inazuma as a country is on the edge of the known world, bordering an ocean shrouded in mystery and superstition, kind of explains to me why the citizens would value strength in a leader above all else.

When you think about it... Furina and Ei's stories are very similar... but it seems like the writers tried to redeem themseleves by giving Furina the judgement that Ei should've recieved 🙃

I don't agree that it's "not bad but badly paced", pacing is a big thing for writing and bad pacing does make a writing bad. It's just annoying how Hoyo did not do anything to hold her accountable, freaked out when the backlash started and just tried to patch things up real fast telling us oh well you see she spent 500 hundred years fighting so we're good now. How about show not tell? And how exactly hanging out with your inner demons justifies all the lives ruined by actual war? Maybe offer some apology at least? I don't believe that she is badly written just because she is a bad archon, not everyone should be good, but the execution of that bad-ness is simply lacking.

Late to party but I think they should have made her personally deliver the visions back to the three vision holders we met. She should see what her actions did to the people and maybe talked to the old man in the battlefield looking for keepsakes of hid son.

As a honkai player, I dislike Raiden Shogun because it feels like she ruins Raiden Mei's image. I was already disappointed with her design, but her writing made me dislike her even more. Mei and Ei, one person suffers from the loss of her sister, while the other person's lover who is the reason she's alive is dying to protect humanity from honkai. One person has a nation to look after, while the other person has every reason to destroy humanity. In the end, Mei chose not to destroy humanity, and try to end honkai before Kiana could. Ei on the other hand, decided to run away from her problem, letting her people die was just selfish. She and Yae are expy of two famous honkai characters, of course fans would have a high standard in their writing. I just hope they don't make the same mistake with unknown god

So in summary, the real problem with Ei isn't really her character, but the way the story failed to acknowledge her wrongdoings and make her face accountability for them.

the shitty thing is that now she is never gonna talk about feeling bad for abandoning scara, cause well you know ;-; thats my problem with her, there should be a game story of her being held accountable and apologizing to her people, not just she talking about it to the traveler (the less affected by her shit doings).

I really liked Inazuma's quest due to the first two parts. Apart from the fact that I really love politically charged stories such as civil wars in fiction, it set up Raiden Ei as not another waifu. She was a straight up dictator who not only wanted us dead but she was actively harming her nation and people. Someone you wanted to defeat, an antagonistic Archon! But then, they dropped the ball. The civil war part of the quest definitely needed more time to be flesh out. For the player to feel the struggle of a grueling war of people fighting against an unjust God that is supposed to protect them. We never even got to fight the puppet directly! Then Ei got away scot free. She needed to be punished somehow, for all the suffering she caused her people. Maybe she could have even been relegated to a figurehead with no real political power. Have the tri-Commissions set up a new democratic government for Inazuma. Echoing the government of Japan after WW2. I think people would've perceived her character much better that way.

Yes. Because unlike Nahida and Furina, Ei got off the hook way too easily. We don't see her working as a leader too. Reminds me of Signora's legit hatred towards Barbatos/Venti in his late response to the attacks that lead to the death of her lover. And considering how Inazuma is inspired from Japan, the country that is well known for receiving a slap in the wrist considering the shitshow they delivered back at WWII, this further worsens Inazuma arc and Ei in general.

I mean I understood the frustration over her not facing any repercussions. But the question is. What kind of repercussions could she get, that she couldnt just kill to get out of? Who other than a god, would be able to punish a god? Would her people lose faith in her? Why would she care? She didn't need them for the last 500 years. Why would she need them now? Would they rebel against her? The only reason Kokomi is still alive, is because Raiden didn't see her as a big enough threat to her Eternity. I feel like a lot of people in the comment section are forgetting that she's not some random politician that can just be voted out of office. She's a god that cut a whole island in half, so she could behead an overgrown snake.

There is no misconception in “Inazuma arc is hot pile of garbage”. Look, Thoma’s vision meant to be 100th, so we had 96 other people who definitely unhappy with this, but in general doing okay. While whole “bad VHD” is based on !three! random ncp’s who gone nuts? Cmon, give me a break. Also Ayaka’s and Yoi’s quests is hard requirements to continue archon quest (till this day) and we all know what are they.. Completely out of place. Side note: in before we arrive in Inazuma, we met a lot of npc/characters who don’t give a single fuck about visions. So “they took my vision - I’m nuts now” is way more questionable. All in all - bad writing full of white spaces :/

I used her because she is really strong but I dislike everything about her especially her character writing. It is mostly because Inazuma Archon Quest is so horrendous and writers didnt manage to convey the impact of what she had done for the past hundreds of years.

The constant inazuma beep really messed with some audio sensory so i couldnt finish the video but it was a good topic! 😢