[ SECRET POST #2142 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2142 ⌋

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Notes:

Sorry it's late!

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #306.
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Comments

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I don't think Pique is that bad. She's pushy and teases Ahiru too much sometimes, yeah, but she does seem to genuinely want Ahiru to do well and does her best to help out.

LILIE, on the other hand, is definitely horrible. I recently showed this show to my friends of mine and pretty much every time she was on screen one of my friends would point at her and say "She's THE DEVIL." And although I like her as comic relief, I definitely don't disagree. She's downright evil to duck sometimes.

As for why anime does this (and I don't think it's just shoujo, those characters often show up in shounen series like Neon Genesis Evangelion, too) I think it's two things.

One, surrounding the protagonist with goofy, flawed characters makes them look better by comparison. (This is particularly the case in harem shows and visual novels--IE, Tomoyo in Clannad might be sarcastic, blunt, and a distant son to his only living parent, but at least he doesn't seem like a loser when you compare him to Sunohara, who refuses to believe one of the other characters is biologically female because she can kick his ass and harasses her constantly in an attempt to prove she's really a crossdressing guy.)

Two, they're supposed to be comic relief. YMMV on how well these actually work out, but I think we're supposed to find Pique and Lilie's treatment of Ahiru as funny. The "normal friend" characters are often kinda slapstick-y in general, or prone to wild dramatics (like Hitomi from Madoka Magica freaking out and thinking Madoka and Sayaka are in a relationship when she figures out they have a shared secret). So...yeah.

I definitely sympathize with people that find those characters annoying, so I get where you're coming from. I sometimes find them funny, and sometimes I don't.