That's because the indecisiveness is part of the narration process: it's a mean to reset all relationship to a previously step/neutral zone. And you have lots of ways to do it.GJsoft wrote:Reminds me of those indecisive and plain harem protagonists that every reader hates but for some reason are still widely used in manga/games. I wonder why? : /
And not every reader hates this scheme, it only became a cliche because lots of authors began to use it. And at the end people get tired of clichés.
The point with armors that look like they have been molded out of the bodies is mainly to attract a male audience, that quickly identifies any sexuality signal. There are even websites specialized in telling which anime gets saucy scene...
It's not called fanservice for nothing.
That's pretty much how the young japanese adult audience feel about an ideal wife/sex partner (or how the selling department views it).broken_angel wrote:One of the tropes that really bothers me, though, is the girl who does everything for the male protagonist and is basically like his mother. Example would be Kaede from Shuffle! I absolutely hated her...until she went crazy. Then she finally had some personality. xD But the girls who just take care of the male character, feeding them, clothing them, doing everything for them, not getting upset when he goes after other girls (or does, but never acts on that jealousy), and of course - the staple of any wife-material love interest - nags him all the time about stupid stuff. That's when it gets really irritating for me, and why I don't play most BxG dating sim type games.
Fortunately, that's not how every male in the world want every woman to be. (And Kaede had her reasons as to why she had this kinda over-submissive attitude)
Anyways, I've always found feminine characters quite sketchy. And the least sketchy ones were only in "boring" anime that youngstun' don't wann' care to watch anyway! (Ghost in the shell, Cowboy Bebop, Taisho Yakkyuu musume, Seikai no Danshou...)
I think that women and men are not that different when it comes to how to handle a situation. But when you add the different layers of one's personnality, aesthetics, preferences, past history, social networks, goals, you get very different creatures.
