Talk:Rito Yuuki/@comment-26804024-20151231023311/@comment-26804024-20160102230824

Paragraphs it is, then :)

And while I can respect your opinion, I really do feel as though Rito, along with all the other characters, is slowly becoming a different character one step at a time. He's still very much the same as when he started in Darkness, but here's the thing: I actually really disliked his character in the first season; it wasn't until OVA 4 that I thought "this guy is actually really nice." with an emphasis on "REALLY nice."

Rito used to be very hostile and very impatient with Lala, and would easily be very "woe is me" over the smallest thing. And while he can still be annoyed by her quirky beavior when it causes problems and can be irritated by strange things happening to him extremely often, he's a very different character than he used to be without having given up who he's supposed to have become. As he's experienced more and more of the plot and met more and more of the characters, he's now more willing than ever to hear someone like Momo talk to him about what he should try and do with the people in his life to make things easier (so long as she's not lcturing him while stark naked), he's very easygoing when someone like Rin is forced by Saki to take him on a "date", and while Nana can be very brash and bitter to him, he understands that she's just an immature, tomboyish version of Lala who hasn't decided to fully grow up yet.

In the past, Rito would have NONE of this. Like I said, it's not major charcter development, but it's enough to be noticed IMO. And as for him changing in the future? We'll just have to wait and see. And, let's be honest, even if he's relatively the same after all this time, at least he's not Makoto from School Days....

EDIT: I just realised that a vast majority of popular charcters in not just anime, but media in general have all had about as much plot development as Rito, and yet they're all beloved and no one questions that aspect of them. For example, in The Walking Dead, Daryl starts out as an irritable prick, but at the end of Season 2 he becomes a stoic, hardowrking group member who occasionly loses his cool, but deep down cares about his newfound friends and family. Nothing else has really cahnged about him, and yet there's the whole "If Daryl dies, we riot" thing going. In Dragonball, Goku (while a great character) has only really changed in terms of his powers and abilities. Since he lost he memory at the beginning, he's always been a happy, loving, caring, goofball who knows when to look out for his own and take care of people/things he's passionate about. And he still is, with barely anything different about him other than he's older, he's trained some more, and he's met new people.

I'm not trying to make a generalization about character development by saying that it's always in small doses, but my question is this: If Rito's not the first anime/series MC to change gradually yet simply, why do so many people get annoyed by him? Or any other MC like him, for that matter? We've been doing it for a long time and a lot of people haven't been annoyed or upset by it.