Question to Manga Readers (Spoilers)

Apr 13, 2023 7:08 AM

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So I'm really confused about something. Ai is considered one of the main characters. But after her dying at the end of the episode, wouldn't she only be a supporting character?
No spoilers for the manga.

Apr 13, 2023 7:21 AM

Joseph_Hakdog420

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This take shouldn't even be questioned in the first place

Apr 13, 2023 7:22 AM

Sairentou

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Thanks to this, it's a twist for ppl who didn't touch the source. Simple as that

Apr 13, 2023 7:24 AM

archer__

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Yes? but consider that Ai will be extremely relevant to the story still regardless of her death, as aqua has sworn to avenge her death.
kinda hard to explain w/out spoilers lol.
But I wouldn't call her a supporting character more of a secondary because of how relevant she will be, more than the MC at times lol

Apr 13, 2023 8:07 AM

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archer__ said:
Yes? but consider that Ai will be extremely relevant to the story still regardless of her death, as aqua has sworn to avenge her death.
kinda hard to explain w/out spoilers lol.
But I wouldn't call her a supporting character more of a secondary because of how relevant she will be, more than the MC at times lol

ok just tell me personally how ... how she's more relevant than mc

Apr 13, 2023 8:08 AM

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Kanashito230 said:

ok just tell me personally how ... how she's more relevant than mc

The story is revolved around her even after her death?

idk don't take it so seriously it's just what I understood from the manga

Apr 13, 2023 8:16 AM

BasicUsageIL

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Yes, the story revolved around her but she won't come back to life

Apr 13, 2023 8:18 AM

Banjee

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Yes......

And no.

Apr 13, 2023 8:19 AM

BasicUsageIL

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She is kinda a support character now. the story is about aqua and ruby but as you saw, aqua devotes himself to kill his father as a ravange for Ai. Ai has a great impact in the story but she won't be talked about much anymore, at least not in the anime. you'll still see her a bit so don't worry

Apr 13, 2023 8:24 AM

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she isn't really a main character in a traditional sense but a lot of the story revolves around her existence. Like if she didn't exist then there wouldn't be a story but she also has very little screentime so shes kinda both a main and secondary character depending on how you look at it

Apr 13, 2023 2:16 PM

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Pubus8

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Lol. Here ima put it like this

Ai is a professional lair.

Apr 13, 2023 4:58 PM

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PepeCH3OH

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she doesnt appear Anywhere later in the magna

Apr 13, 2023 6:03 PM

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Beargg

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It’s because ai is basically gonna be what the main characters are talking about and pursuing stuff about

Apr 13, 2023 6:08 PM

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H2overnon said:
So I'm really confused about something. Ai is considered one of the main characters. But after her dying at the end of the episode, wouldn't she only be a supporting character?
No spoilers for the manga.

Yeah she's definitely more of a supporting character, even in this episode clearly the MC was the Doctor and Ruby/Sarina. But by putting her on the cover making her the centerpiece it makes it a bigger twist for people when she gets got.

Apr 13, 2023 6:17 PM

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The story mainly focuses on Ruby and Aqua's motives after this, and for Aqua, Ai's death is his main driving point as you've realized in the last scene.

Apr 13, 2023 6:18 PM

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Because putting her as supporting doesn't make sense.. Prologue is dedicated to Ai and is still relevant throughout the story. Main Character doesn't have to be protagonist/antagonist and her impact is too large to be a supporting character.

Apr 13, 2023 6:36 PM

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Wendigo40

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I'd say that despite her being dead for the rest of the series, she's still arguably the 3rd most important character (after Aqua and Ruby) in terms of the overarching plot. She continues to have a very strong effect on the motives and psyches of the main duo throughout the series.

Also, all the marketing for the anime have been portraying it as a happy slice of life, and they've been focusing very heavily on Ai, so I think that listing her as a main character will make the plot twist at the end of episode 1 much more impactful. I remember being mislead when i started the manga and it made the experience that much better for me.

Apr 13, 2023 7:18 PM

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LaurisKitty

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Yeah, Ai is only a suporting carather

Apr 13, 2023 8:21 PM

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She's the main driving force for Aqua and Ruby, that's the best way one can put it

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Apr 13, 2023 11:09 PM

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SleepyFaceMiko

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she's still important in the rest of the story, since this will turn a lot around that incident

Apr 13, 2023 11:14 PM

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Neostorm-X

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man kids these days. i guess due to 90% of anime being garbage isekai with overused troupes. I guess I don't blame you.

its called

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PosthumousCharacter

POSTHUMOUS CHARACTER.

lots of series use this.

when a character is extremely important and then called upon again and again later, perhaps in flashbacks.

the absolute perfect example would be Teressa of the faint smile.
a MAIN character of claymore, only that she gets killed of extremely early on(hardly a spoiler since it happens so soon)
however she constantly appears in flash backs and is a driving point to the story LONG after she is dead.
of course I don't expect people to remember claymore anymore in this year.

Apr 13, 2023 11:23 PM

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mydayruined

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posthumous narrative isn't anything related with that (it is characterization through flashbacks after they have died, i suppose you misinterepted in this case as she is dead you think narration focuses on her being characterized further (she doesn't get characterized further through flashbacks either way, there is none also ); narrative isn't about her (ai) at all, but about how aqua and ruby)
ai simply dies as part of the premise of the story, nothing more or less

Apr 14, 2023 12:22 AM

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thehornedrat

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You Ai suckers got bait and switched. Nothing more to it.

Apr 14, 2023 2:09 AM

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zairaner

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So fun fact: When I started reading, Ai was indeed classified as "supporting by MAL", and reading that almost spoiled me, but I was able to explain it away because "Aqua and ruby are the pov characters who help Ai from the background, so we focus more on them".
Only with the anime being announced , Ai was reclassified as "Main" for the anime and manga to avoid spoiling people.

Apr 14, 2023 3:20 AM

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Kurasaki_Kenji

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lets just say SHE IS the reason for this whole situation.. so thats y she is the face of this Story.

Apr 14, 2023 3:36 AM

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Nmasih8193

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To summarise it, yes but actually no

Apr 14, 2023 12:30 PM

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tmoney23

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archer__ said:

Kanashito230 said:

ok just tell me personally how ... how she's more relevant than mc

The story is revolved around her even after her death?

idk don't take it so seriously it's just what I understood from the manga

I agree with you. Kinda like how Gol D. Roger is dead in one piece but still a main component of the story. Even after death characters can heavily impact a story it’s not that hard to see how she can still be a main character.

Apr 14, 2023 3:13 PM

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PepeCH3OH said:
she doesnt appear Anywhere later in the magna

She appears quite alot of times tho especially rn in later chapters

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