User blog comment:Striker10/Main Protagonist/@comment-7948498-20131016013412/@comment-108.226.165.239-20131017230752

Sorry, but I still disagree about pushing the seriousness of his character to the point that he needs a traumatic past or something equally uncomical. There's just too little about his present character or his meager childhood information to suggest that something serious happened in his past. He really is that ordinary.

Maybe we can discover that something really embarrassing happened to him as a child that made him such a wimp around girls. Or maybe he caught his mom and dad in the bedroom at a horrifying moment, and has been terrified of women's bodies ever since.

But if Rito ever can be taken seriously, he has to man up and do something mature and reliable in the present. No sympathetic backstories.

As far as Mikan's feelings for Rito goes, I still think her desire to be more than siblings with Rito is too vague and inconclusive. The way I see it, she thinks of him as her little brother. To me, that explains her choice not to call him Oniichan. Her "brother complex" is just something Mikan fans want to see and like to think they're seeing, expecially if they want to put themselves in Rito's shoes.