>>15608
>>no character development
>>unnecessary filler episodes
>They all stay the same one-dimensional characters throughout the entire show. The only character with some personality was the char clone, but even he's super generic since nothing he does really stand out as a char.
>>kudelia a mary sue
>Everyone fucking loves her, she can't do any wrong
Eh, Kudelia was one of the few to actually GET character development.
Now, it was going from "I w-wanna help the children…" to "I AM going to help the children!" so it wasn't much, but she did steel her resolve to actually BE the force of change everyone was wishing she'd be.
Mika's characterization isn't so much one-dimensional as it is simple:
He is someone who had to retard and suppress his emotive capabilities to not only survive, but excel at a life as a Child Solider/Manlet Murder Machine.
Like Rambo himself, deep down he fears he'll never be able to be anything BUT a solider, however, because he's already sacrificed some of his basic humanity in order to hone his killing instincts, he doesn't even know how to deal with this emotions.
This is why he so readily looks to others for moral guidance; If he truly is nothing more than an instrument of murder, he at least wants to be one that is of use to someone responsible enough to direct him accordingly.
You can discern this from the people besides Orga that he holds in high regard:
Sakura Pretzel - Biscuit's Grandma and farm owner, Granny Sakura was probably one of the first people Mika met that showed him a way of life that wasn't either starving in the streets or being used as cannon fodder.
This is a woman who knows our nominal protagonist well enough that she can instantly snap him out of his berserking blood-lust with a simple tap to the head.
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