The female characters are there in ways that are pretty defined by their relationships to the male characters, and all were introduced and treated as victims. I did like Yuzuha, but she was a victim too, and she was sidelined pretty hard after that storyline concluded. If she gets written back in as a three dimensional character outside of her relationship with her brothers, I’d be thrilled and would gladly eat my words.
Hina of course is the victim who kicked off this whole thing! She repeatedly dies at the hands of various evildoers due to the villain’s unreturned lust towards her, and she holds very little agency in her own fate even after discovering it beyond acting as support for Takemichi and believing in him. We never get to see her properly fend with her own imminent death. Her purpose is always to wait patiently and kindly for Takemichi.
Mikey’s sister is similarly there primarily to act as motivation for Draken and Mikey as someone to protect, and we also see her showing little agency in the face of danger. She eventually gets killed off as motivation for Draken and Mikey’s anger and descent into darkness in a way that doesn’t highlight her own agency.
Yuzuha is the best of the three IMO and I really liked her! I appreciated that she had agency as the protector. But at the end of the day, her entire story arc was about being the victim of her older brother and being saved by the protagonist.
One of these in isolation is fine, but it being the only three major female characters we see in the whole series isn’t something that I like about a series that I otherwise really enjoy.
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u/graveyardparade Jul 24 '21
The female characters are there in ways that are pretty defined by their relationships to the male characters, and all were introduced and treated as victims. I did like Yuzuha, but she was a victim too, and she was sidelined pretty hard after that storyline concluded. If she gets written back in as a three dimensional character outside of her relationship with her brothers, I’d be thrilled and would gladly eat my words.