xxJing said: As someone here has said multiple times, Ryosuke was a really good harem anime main character. I'd say he is up there with Tomoya (Clannad) and another of Shimono's characters Keima (TWGOK). I also really liked the main character of Highschool DxD. My favorite by the way is Ayumu from Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? He is the epitome of awesome :P. What I like about these characters that many, many, main characters in Harem shows lack is, that they are active. People like them for a reason, Ryosuke included.
Most series have a great female cast (Campione, ToLoveRu) but have extremely dull main characters. The main characters lack personality completely. I hated ToLoveRu because of how boring Rito was ( I love ToLoveRu darkness because it just throws the whole pointless drama out the window and replaces it with soft core porn).
That said not even a character as entertaining as Ryosuke can save this show from it's horrible plot. Almost nothing happens through most of the series. The female cast is pretty bad (Mina = Dull, Kyuuru or whatever = poorly written, Iriya = annoying, Lisara = Bitch).
I actually liked Kyuuru's character, that is her personality... but she was poorly written into the plot. I could not find any reason for her being there, she felt extremely unimportant. What's worse is , for some reason she was the one character who they decided not to ever show full frontal nudity of and I have no idea why. She was always strategically censored.
Iriya was annoying, it felt like she should have been Lisara's rival, but she did a very poor job at that. Making her just a nuisance. Her proportions were all messed up too, not an attractive character at all.
I actually liked Lisara for the most part of the show. However, I cannot forgive her after that ending. WTF is that, Ryosuke pretty much proved he values his love for her more than his own life... and what is her answer: We can go out, but no touching. God her ratio of tsun to dere is like 99:1... Tsundere is supposed to be like a locked chest, you go through all that trouble to open it so you can get your reward. There is no reason opening a chest filled with crap though.
Finally Mina, I actually probably like her the best. Not because she is an osananajimi, that has nothing to do with it. (I hated Ringo from Air Gear, I was a huge Kururu fan. So Osananajimi has nothing to do with my judgement, I work on a case by case basis.) What I liked about Mina was that she was openly in love with and truly cared about Ryosuke. I found her to be an extremely pure character. What I did not like about her character is that she pretty much only became important in the end, and backed down completely from all the other girls who 'loved' ryosuke. Her character was sweet and dull at the same time. I was actually happy Ryosuke ended up with Lisara at first, however the ending made me regret ever feeling like that... he totally should have just gone with Mina. The only badly written part of his character is that he rejected Mina solely on the fact that they were childhood friends....
I'd give this anime a 5/10, it has a few decent characters, but I can't even really remember what the story was about so I don't know any reason why I should want to watch it again. I believe there will be a second season of Highschool DxD, that is overall a better ecchi harem anime so atleast we have salvation down the road. Now if only they would schedule 3rd Seasons of Kore wa Zombie desu ka and Baka to Test to Shokanjuu, the world would be a much happier place.
I agree with all your points and it reflects mostly why I had a bad taste in my mouth finishing this anime ( though it started off so good ). I'm all for Kore wa Zombie, but not so much for Baka to Test ( I don't like the MC there much even though he has his awesome moments ) |