Inasmuch as she has the best overall aesthetic among the five; I can't shake off the feeling that she, out of all the characters, is the least best girl.
Inasmuch as she has the best overall aesthetic among the five; I can't shake off the feeling that she, out of all the characters, is the least best girl.
Eh, yes, I'm trying to learn some Japanese and yes, I know what that word means ... eh eh, it has various meanings ... let's say ... a kind of "feeling" ....
Ahhh yess a "good" feeling
I think Miku and Nino, one of them will marry Fuutarou
Mhm miku
Hmmmm, least best girl eh? how come? i like Nino more than anyone else but Miku's one of the best though, though I still think Nino's the best, especially on Manga
@Pdatdwl quite a lot of reasons; the biggest one being her development being too centered on romance. Sure, the series IS a harem so romance is a key element to everyone's development; but the other 4 have some sources of character development that isn't from the main guy. Ichika being motivated by her acting career, Nino with her dreams of making a restaurant and being noticed by her father, Yotsuba with being different from her sisters, and Itsuki wanting to become someone like her mother. Miku just doesn't have that. Even if people do say that her plans of going to a culinary school as an argument, it still wouldn't sit well because her main motivation to even start cooking in the first place is to be someone Fuutarou likes. It's just so strange that characters similar to her (say Onodera from Nisekoi) are never considered best in a lot of other harem series but in this one she stands out (way too much). I mean, even her whole generals otaku streak became nonexistent after knowing that Fuutarou likes women who can cook.
TL;DR, for a series that is lauded and praised for the complexity of its characters, Miku is literally the only one-dimensional character in the series; and it confuses me why she gets too much praise even with that.
I hope you read the manga till the end by this time, and you see how Miku has had the most personal development. What you mentioned about other sisters' development is somewhat pointed outwards, to the outer world/other people.
With Miku, she is fighting with herself throughout the whole story and her inner struggles are so carefully and gently depicted. She is not gloomy nor she is self-centered, as characters of this kind would suggest: she is the one that is able to convey what other sisters are feeling to Yotsuba, not Nino or someone else. She always somehow ends up caring about her sisters the most (the fair or equal parts of story, for example, or how she cares for Nino all the time), and tends to even understand them better than Yotsuba who just feels so forced in her kindness. MIku's insight into people is also underlined by her being the first really noticing what kind of a person Futaro is.
The process of Miku getting to accept herself the way she is is just so well fleshed out.
The scene of her confession to Futaro is also 10000 better than that of Yotsuba's.
Her overcoming herself is really nowhere near one-dimensional (especially to a person that can relate to it). It is just sad that author selected her to be a sacrifice in a way ...
The closest to one-dimensional "good & caring" character is Yotsuba, and she somehow gets to win and that is so annoying.
Damn i made this post was ages ago
I just happened to finish reading the manga now :)
Noice sad that yotsuba is the winner
What do you think?