Sayaka is the best character and if you don't agree you are wrong

kyomi-san245 said:
Sayaka is my least favorite character because a lot of her actions are idiotic and she's the biggest plot device, infact she's pretty much the most irrelevant character in the series.

Botato said:

Uhhh.. Mami is more irrelevant than Sayaka. Actually, Sayaka gets lots of screen time and development, how can she be irrelevant in anyway?
And how exactly were her actions idiotic?

Objurgo said:


I think Mami is one of the mentally weakest of the bunch, considering how she reacts when hearing the truth and such

tsudecimo said:
They are all horrible unlikable creatures.

ssjokg said:
Threads like these show that people are able to totally ignore every character except their fav.

ThisNameSucks said:
Kyouko master race.

Edit: Speling

tsudecimo said:
Sayaka's reason and the conflict she had for development was really weak (because of a boy, really?) she felt so idiotic in so many ways. Homura seems shallow because all of her existence is fixated on Madoka but she is more likable than Sayaka.

Either way I'm pretty sure most people don't like PMMM for the characters.


Wait what? Madoka is an actual character?

mind= blown

tsudecimo said:

Okay but that was established in the first two episodes. The same thing kept happening for almost all of her screen time except the last episode IIRC.


That's a nice interpretation and all but the fact remains that it didn't have much emphasis. What effects on her personality? I don't think her initial 'personality' was affected aside from the final episode. She behaved like a normal girl on her age who is being sucked into something bigger and beyond her like you said above, but the events didn't bring forth any change in her character, they just made her behave in the same way for a long time.


You kept saying the word ''contextualized'' but I don't know why. I don't think it's a good thing. It's not a merit of her character that she is contextualized, her name is in the title, one would expect that story would surround her. But like I said even though the story was about her, she didn't have a presence.


Well I don't know where to take this little argument because what I remember from Madoka is she

1/Acting like a little girl getting caught up with something bigger than her, which was realistic and good for the first couple of episodes.

2/ Acting the same way through out the story and repeating the same dialogue and actions over, and over again in a vapid way.

3/ Only changing in the very last episode in a forced manner to solve the final conflict.

Her character was never fleshed out, her personality was as two dimensional as ever, maybe even one dimensional and lacking in proper characterization and the characterization she did have were trite, bland and un-inspired.

I can't say that I understand why you think she is a good character, as your points seems to be revolving about the fact that the story is indeed about her, like the title suggests.

Maybe deathrot (did I spell this right) will come and shed some light. Because I don't get how someone can consider Madoka something more than a plot device and a decoy protagonist.

leetshoe said:
Or you just didn't understand the show. Sayaka is the one character the show devotes the most time to developing and is one of the only two characters (besides Homura) to get a full character arc. Sayaka's character arc closely inspects the ideal of heroism and idealism, both of which lead Sayaka to her place in the series. To think Sayaka is the worst character would be the same as complaining about Shinji in NGE. To say Mami is the best character you are actually just saying "l liked Mami's character DESIGN, not her character" because Mami is boring and has no presence throughout the series. Just cuz she has great knockers doesn't make her a good character.