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Originally Posted by Father Hentai
Well she isn't as worse as Lucca
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Luca had a nicer run in the movies, wherein his character development is not tied to his unrequited (from viewer perspective) love for Nanase. He served a broader purpose in the movies vs. TV series where his character basically did do very little aside from minor plot points where writers randomly remembered this dude is a computer nerd who invented a random dimensional bomb on Frontier (episode 21).
If you're going for bad characters or ones who had bad resolution for side characters,
Nanase is a nicer choice. Because she's basically sidelined for a majority of the second half of the TV series and
majorly so in the movies (of which she's more like a
cameo of herself, she has
two scenes in the movies, one of which has no dialogue).
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Originally Posted by seiftis
Mirage remains a forgettable side character to me. The series could even do well without her
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I genuinely believe she
is beneficial in this series as a
character because of her supporting role for Hayate and Freyja.
Outside of the
love triangle, in terms of friendship, her role is basically about
supporting our main two characters: befriending them (episode 4 and 14), protecting them (episode 13 and 22), scolding them (episode 20), encouraging them (episode 22), and enforcing their happiness (episode 25 and 26). It's a solid "friendship" role for Mirage. In fact, because it's a
love triangle, it's detrimental to her
character because she falls
in love with Hayate and it's been a cripple on her character arc because it's a little harder to recognize areas where she developed as a
character without
reanalyzing her whole character from beginning to end.
In short, because it's so obviously endgame for Hayate and Freyja, dropping her from the love triangle in favor of a friendly supporting role could be beneficial to her character; because she'd focus less on her love for Hayate and more on her friendship with Freyja. There's a number of examples I could give here but one
ippus brought up
elsewhere comes to mind about Freyja's past or heritage never discussed in the series; a
perfect opportunity for this is episode 23, wherein Mirage and Freyja choose discussing
Hayate and a useless love triangle over maybe discussing "so, you're going home... let's talk about your home."