Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5481445-20160105013147/@comment-5481445-20160303092540

VuLinhAssassin wrote: I am beginning to get upset of Rito, because he sucks, and with every passing moment he sucks even more. Well, and as for manga, I begin to wonder what will happen in the end. Who will Rito ended up with? I don't want any fan service or over-the-top ecchi situation... They have been overusing... It is not a hentai franchise, but it far outclassed any ecchi things... Tired and bored... Technically, the series is considered borderline hentai, but not really being completely hentai. Ever since Yabuki and Hasemi removed the slight "censorship" they had in the original series, it's become like "that" since the beginning of Darkness. Well, actually, in the original series, Rito was bit tougher (more or less). Was. I'm not implying that he won't improve, but in the case of his character development overall, I'd say he's stuck somewhere. I don't where and how he got stuck, but I'm just gonna leave it alone for the time being until Hasemi and Yabuki can actually make the story focus more on improving Rito's overall character and not his way in his harem.

Practically the original series (well, for the first few volumes to say the least) focused on how he matured and how he had become less of who he was then, even standing up for himself, but for some reason, he lost that, but he still has it when necessary. But still lost somewhere.

I'm hoping that Hasemi and Yabuki can really focus on actually improving him as the main protagonist of the series (since that's what a protagonist should be going through; their character being developed and improved as the series where they are in progresses), because if they don't, well... I guess by then it would be safe to say that I'd favor either Ren or Saruyama as a male character instead. I do like Rito though, mostly because of his personality... and his surreal falls (not mostly, just at times). But if his character either stays in the same place or begins to drop and not improve, I might start to consider him becoming one of the least interesting characters in the series.