Why main love interest is always the most bland, boring bitch possible?
Why main love interest is always the most bland, boring bitch possible?
Nolan Adams
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Josiah Ortiz
momo isn't the main love interest tho
Christopher James
Please don't talk about my wife like that.
Nicholas Gonzalez
She's sexy as fuck, though.
Cameron Brooks
Hey buddy, don’t talk about my fucking waifu like that
Oliver Perez
Because the best girls are for us.
Jack Perez
Yamoto Nadeshiko.
Hail by thy emperor's name. Its literally heavenly.
Benjamin Fisher
But Ochako isn't the main love interest?
Oliver Jones
Which one is the boring one here?
Jonathan Jenkins
Sit down.
Ayden Sanchez
ochaco is just there for some curvaceous eyecandy
John Wood
Grayson Baker
Oink oink
Samuel Gomez
MC's usually worse desu
Juan Rivera
>desu
Fuck off retard newshit
David Scott
Care to elaborate?
Logan Smith
Ochako, sakura, and kurapika
Leo Bell
Fuck you desu
Elijah Lee
Nah she’s qt.
Season 2 did a good job of getting her a different but reasonable motivation,
Jaxson Myers
>Her only notable action in the last arc was restraining the already knocked out bad guy
My sides! You can't make this shit up!
Noah Hughes
ochako is anything but that though
Gavin Clark
She's cute. Not the best but pretty cute.
Christopher Harris
>Shitposters gonna shitpost
Camden Parker
Cause it's like AAA gaming nowadays.
They have to make the person that the MC ends up with the most "likeable" or "relateable" at a basic level. So even though the design might attract a lot of fans, they come off as pretty shallow.
The side characters are usually not intended to be with the MC, thus they often can have more flaws and issues. This, in essence, humanizes them and allows them to feel a bit more "real". Yet when all is said and done, they want the lowest common denominator to be happy. It's why childhood friends always fail, it's why tsundere's are also popular as well. You want to see that shell crack, and it's the easiest way to do it without giving them some tragic backstory or crazy flaw.
Carson Fisher
Is she GANBARE though?
Brandon Anderson
>desu
>newshit
Jose Collins
Wasn't hard.
Henry Hernandez
The only problem with "likeable" designs is when it's done solely to please the viewer. Look at the dredge in xenoblade 2. Just a pile of housewife, desirable traits that has shit interactions and chemistry with everything around it.
However, a character that bounces off others nicely is by definition likeable and well written at that.
Flaws are not the only tool to make a character 'real'. Don't force some kind of mental issue or trauma on every character just because. Have them deal with external conflicts. Build them from the ground up instead of accentuating one trait and calling it a character.
Jayden Perez
Another thing that works is just changing up the "common" situations that you see usually.
I've been watching Nisekoi right now, and while I wasn't really appreciating the main ship the bathhouse episode really changed my mind. Rather than having this fake fight, label, or bullshit, she immediately saw that it wasn't Ruka's fault and actually tried to help him out of the situation.
Rather than a cheap gag, it was able to show a level of trust that one character had in another's integrity. Even though I felt the character was a little cookie-cutter, it fleshed her out really well.
Blake Hughes
This
Why is it that the most insufferable, annoying, beta faggot MCs always end up with girls?
Asher Bennett
Plain girls are cute
Nathan Scott
Whose the most tragic forgotten harem member?
The one who could have had it all, but was just shafted by the writers?
I remember being pretty partial to Manami in Oreimo. I knew she couldn't win, but I feel like the show tried to make her feel like a bad guy at the end for not supporting incest.
Asher Anderson
MC's are always dogshit so they get the shit girls
Landon Green
Bland? Ochako? Pal, read Mx0 sometime, Hiiragi is probably the best definition of "bland" you'll ever find.
And seriously, it's better than any turbo slut tsundere.
Owen Nguyen
Illyasviel Von Einzbern. She is best girl but doesn't even have her own route.
Jack Mitchell
found the newfag desu
Lucas Moore
what the fuck are you into desu
Jose Hughes
Because you have bad taste
Ryan Reed
Deku-kun Deku-kun Deku-kun amirite Xaxz-kun
Evan Bell
to encourage the good side of your average jane. the good side being the side that isn't a cunt. same reason why the mc is always a pussy who works hard and feels compelled to do good for others, to encourage the good side of your average guy. the good side being the side that isn't a lazy scared pussy.
Zachary Thomas
Because she's been designed to be as inoffensive as possible. Unlike side characters, she is only there to be cute, sweet, and supportive towards the MC. This comes off as bland, but it's probably what Japanese men want in a wife.
BNHA is a shounen that has absolutely been designed with the type of guys in mind that wouldn't realistically want a girl that would outshine them in personality or talent.
Luis Anderson
>her own route.
Prisma Illya is getting another game right?
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Brody Miller
Shitdex no contest. Basically a non character.
Grayson Flores
That mindset is not exclusive to shonenfags. The ideal male figure is strong and reliable, being "outshined" is a blow to that.
Andrew Gray
Because you empathize more with the girls you know are going to lose since it's a more familiar feeling.
Connor Cooper
modfags deleted our thread im hijiking this one
Luis Wood
Main love interest could be waaaay worse than that. Trust me on this one.
Thomas Moore
She's adorable and perfectly matches the MC. It's bland because you're all overly cynical.
This, it's a pride thing and in fact competition between males is much more prevalent in shonen manga than between the two opposite sex, because it's a reflection of the reality. Feeling the heroine is "outshined" is a stupid complaint.
Luis Barnes
>fattie
nah
James Long
>bland and boring
>funny
>passionate about sports and manliness.
>poorfag so relatable
Oliver Hernandez
zessica
the whole show was about defying fate, yet purple hair cunt still won
Jonathan Butler
But that's Bakugou's love interest?
Easton Stewart
she's got best spinoff tho
Gavin Thompson
In a curve ball midoriya ends up with tsuyu. Would you be happy then?
Hudson Green
yes
just for delicious ochako tears
Leo Sanchez
How strong will their children be?
Leo Parker
>thread deleted at 2am
Good job now you've now encouraged more phoneposters. Hang yourself.
Josiah Campbell
>those boobs
hot
Andrew Thomas
toga
Lincoln Rodriguez
Uhh no
Wyatt Gonzalez
sorry user that's just like every character in BNHA
Ian Martinez
I'd be happy with any outcome. I like cute things.
Jayden Rivera
WAIT
IM SEEING A TREND HERE
THE MC ALWAYS GET THE BUSTY BITCHES
Elijah Nelson
>Why _____ is
I fucking hate ESL posters you all make the same mistakes
Asher Lewis
What the hell are you looking at wimp
Sebastian Collins
>desu
>new
please do pic related
Cooper Long
The same reason vanilla ice cream and apple pies sell the most. It's the most acceptable (not best) to the most amount of people.
Nathan Peterson
An inferior version of the real OTP.
Kayden Gutierrez
But vanilla ice cream at least has depth of flavor.
Evan Gutierrez
Woah, someone who can make this point without sounding like a contrarian faggot.
John Johnson
FOOD ANOLOGY
you are right though
Cooper Morales
Doing God's work there, user.
Samuel Rogers
Most of the time they aren't, but contrarian faggots love to brush them off as bland and boring.
Sebastian Jones
In Nozaki-kun, the whole plot is about MC, who is actually cool and unlike most male protags and the fem-MC who is another bland cute safe character. Sure she shows some more personality later but that never goes above what she essentially is.
Meanwhile you have best girl Seo who is just better in almost every fucking way possible, has more flaws but is way more fun and to be honest her reactions with calm kinda dumb MC would be much better.
It's all "Nerdy Pussy" + "Perfect Cute Supportive Housewife".
Boring as fuck.
William Morgan
That’s pretty ironic desu senpai
Michael Lee
>cool guy wants a cute loving girl, not a girl who is "complicated"
What a shame.
Ryan Perez
All of them. Literally 100% copy paste by-book ciche chars.
Ryan Robinson
frogshit is not the main love interest though
Isaiah Green
> Calls posting facts shitposting
t.Ochakafag
Nicholas Perez
Not in all matters however. The male wants to be better in fighting. You can than give basically everything else to the female and it would still work. OR jap males are just so insecure they need to be better in every single aspect.
Gabriel Martin
It's a ruse
Ryan White
Plenty of series have a girl better at other things. But because it's shonenshit, you'll always have someone bitch about fighting prowess.
This shit is a red herring because the real problem is the MC potentially rendering EVERYONE irrelevant, not just the women.
Andrew Cruz
>Perfect cute supportive houseife"
We're talking about Chiyo right? The one that kept stalking him until she actually talked to him and vaccum sealed a fucking candy apple because he ate a piece of it?
Chase Campbell
Cute
Grayson White
>kurapika
>love interest
wat