becauseloveonlygrows:
When something is judged for being plain. First of all, I pretty much hate the word plain in every context. It’s an adjective that I’ve had all too much experience with.
Peers: Wow Claudia you act so plain, you’re never exciting!
Professors: Well, I really liked your story but it’s just…
I reblogged this from my personal blog, and I think it can be easily applied to characters from Sailor Moon.
I’ve seen bashing of everyone from Setsuna to Ami to Mamoru for their character traits. So I’m assuming they need to start making allegiance to Chaos or have flower petals floating past their heads in order to makes some sort of dent in the fandom on the importance pyramid.
It’s sort of ironic how a show that is centric to a young 14 year old girl who’s the most unlikely candidate to be the most powerful senshi in the universe comes with a fandom that does the most horrible bashing of characters/characteristics.
Of course everyone has their opinions, AND YES, parts of the anime become a little monotonous with some characters. However, my take is, as a writer and a person, if a character wasn’t meant to be important, then they would not be written into a series. There is a reason to every character,every setting, every POV.
So what if you think Mercury’s attacks are weak because they are ice/water-based? I don’t see any attacks on Neptune, and they have similar elements. Mamoru’s boring? Tell me something that hasn’t been said to me before. Plus, with him being Tuxedo Mask, Prince Endymion, freaking Moonlight Knight, and a child who has a unexplored past with the death of his parents and being an orphan, I really will never see THAT point. Then there are the supporting characters, the monsters of the day, the villains that have all been called plain and boring. Sorry, but there wouldn’t be an anime without them. It fleshes out the story and gives a lot more perspective that could never be explored in a couple volumes of a manga series.
But of course, who I am? I’m just a plain blogger! So I’d advise you to take this with a grain of rice (and you can find rice with Ikuko Tsukino, who’s also been called (you guessed it) too plain)
geez louise.
