| No, I don’t think she falls into that category. She is a normal anime character. There many like her in anime. |
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.  |
| You couldn't be further from the truth. Shise is one of the, if not the most intelligent characters of this series in the light novels. It might not be obvious cuz they mainly focus on the dumb comedy bits in the anime. She was smarter than most adults around her even when she was in grade school. She's one of the most gifted people in the Houjou family being able to process enormous data in her brain simultaneously. Her ability might even be better than the photographic memory of Saito. Due to her ablities, she's a genius at chess and can take on multiple grand master level opponents at once. The goofy glutton imouto character she plays in front of Saito is so that he won't notice her feelings for him and end up ruining their current relationship. This way she can always stay by his side as his little sister. While everyone in their family including her mom has other plans and is dead set on getting Shise to marry Saito in the future. The way her character works is similar to Yuki from the Roshidere series. In the anime, she's portrayed as a hyper otaku brocon but that's completely an act. Her real personality is more mature and the reason she acts like that has something to do with the MC's past. |
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| You're looking into it way too much. |
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| I can't believe this isn't bait.......Come on, now. This is egregiously ignorant. |
| cranky because your taste sucks, aren't you? |
| @QF_Mike I'm autistic. I have autistic friends with blunted affect like the "kuudere" archetype. I can see people reading her as autistic. The issue is that Down Syndrome is a lot more specific in terms of traits & symptoms. There's variation there too, of course. However, OP posts like she hasn't any familiarity with either spectrum of traits, which is what makes this thread such a migraine from the outset. |
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| cranky because your taste sucks, aren't you? |
| She's just an anime girl... it's not that deep... |
  Imouto suki Tsundere-Chuuni-Imoutos save me...   |
| That's not how you spell autism, buddy. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| If she were, she would have had umm, let's just say, an unflattering look. |
| 'I am the world's most selfish man.' (俺のわがまま世界１だ) — Tennjouji Haru |
| @beechanyo I did see that on your page, hence "posts like she hasn't any familiarity" & not "OP clearly isn't familiar." Your experience is your experience. It's a spectrum. Your post still sucks. |
| cranky because your taste sucks, aren't you? |
Reply to Beechanyo
@AngelofFrost
I think that is how she is portrayed in the manga; in the anime, they have gone for a much different style of character cutting out parts of the plot that don't fit for time management sake. Her ability to play turn based games very well seems to come from practice here in the anime and, though it is clear that she is playing it up and that she is in fact more intelligent than she lets on, I think in the anime they have played it as an attention seeking jealous behaviour rather than as a 'scheme' or a 'plot' since there is no plan beyond being needy completely inline with my discussion previous.
Since I can't speak to the character in the manga my interpretation can only come from the anime so that is why I posed it this way. I think she is great representation from this point of view rather than as a cut and past 'loli' 'bro' con.
I think that is how she is portrayed in the manga; in the anime, they have gone for a much different style of character cutting out parts of the plot that don't fit for time management sake. Her ability to play turn based games very well seems to come from practice here in the anime and, though it is clear that she is playing it up and that she is in fact more intelligent than she lets on, I think in the anime they have played it as an attention seeking jealous behaviour rather than as a 'scheme' or a 'plot' since there is no plan beyond being needy completely inline with my discussion previous.
Since I can't speak to the character in the manga my interpretation can only come from the anime so that is why I posed it this way. I think she is great representation from this point of view rather than as a cut and past 'loli' 'bro' con.
| @Beechanyo I'm not sure what you're trying to say. You said it's clear that she's more intelligent than she lets on. From that alone, it's quite obvious that she don't have down syndrome as people suffering from that condition tend to have severely low IQ. Well, at the end of the day this entire discussion thread is kinda pointless. I'm quite positive that medical conditions like "down syndrome" or "autism" were the furthest thing from the author's mind when creating a character like Shise. She's just an anime character playing a typical anime trope. It's not that serious. I've read all 10 volumes of the LN and the entire novel is filled with cliché tropes making it an extremely frustrating read. I even ended up hating the main couple by the end of the series. I wonder why I even bothered to read such a generic light novel. The same author is involved in making the anime, so it's a fact that even in the anime, Shise is intended to be categorized in the "loli brocon" anime trope as opposed to something like someone suffering from down syndrome. Of course you're free to interpret her character however you like. But from what I see reading some of the replies on this thread, most people here seem to beg to differ. |
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| I don't think any of the characters in this anime are that well-thought out or planned. |
| Your bio checks out. A good rule of thumb when it comes to characters being something: the story actually makes use of that condition, references it or straight up is about it. You clearly have a loose grip on reality, so stop making shit up about things that you don't understand. |
Uncfe said: As a medical student, I can’t say this is impossible. Student, not practitioner. Clearly need to study some more. |
| Who cares. Its a quirky anime character, let her exist as she is without trying to diagnose them with a IRL mental disorder. Also her judgement isn't poor, it was one of her super powers. While Saito had perfect memory, Shise could piece together any set of events and practically has perfect judgement. Would you also attribute Saito as having a mental disorder too because of his quirk? Cmon now. |
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