Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

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pokoko said:

We're just going to have to agree to disagree, yo.  One of the more common reasons I turn away from the primary female character is that they often feel too perfect, which makes me think of them more as a plot device than a person.  As far as having more story elements, that's true, but with harem anime, that often doesn't translate to character development.  In fact, one of things that bothers me about harem anime in general is that character development for a lot of the female characters comes down to, "I realize that I love him because he saved me from X."

As you said, though, there are exceptions everywhere for everything.  

I guess it depends on the show...though I'll accept we tend to see different aspects to those characters.

I agree that harem anime tends to overuse that development, though I'm probably more forgiving because of the focus. I still tend to prefer the characters that get development outside the romance aspect, be it problems with friends, family, etc, rather than just being satellites to the MC. Sometimes it's too much to hope for in the genre, but the ones that do get broader development are characters I tend to be crazy about...hehe.