Your Opinions on Ouma Shu?

Flawfinder said:


Considering I haven't exactly been secret with the fact that he's one of my most hated characters ever (although for slightly different reasons than most of his haters), I would say no, I couldn't come up with a better reason. Like I said, they couldn't flashback to more than one actually meaningful moment between Shu and Inori when she was held captive and started missing him, because there aren't any.

Articman said:


Despite the fact that they were living in the same apartment, going to the same school and part of the same Terrorist Organisation together. There are few, very few, moments which can be used to show the strenght of their relationship, the things upon which their relationship is based on. Nothing Forced Here. Of course the writers really didn't bother to try to build these moments into the story.

amradio said:


There were more than they showed imo..but yes there are very few solid moments. But honestly, how long have they been around each other? You'd have to invent a lot of BS to give more moments then they had. A relationship doesn't require a strong foundation, contrary to popular belief. Ppl who love each other just do, not because they have some history of strong moments that brought them closer and closer lol.

Ppl like the whole friendship -> romance thing but that just doesn't happen very often. Friendship generally stays friendship, and romance occurs from mutual attraction that does not require friendship at all to ignite. I'm glad they didnt force a bunch of cheesy moments into the storyline. Would have been a waste of time imo...action is the priority after all.

VoidGenome said:
The sole fact that he grows throughout the anime is reason enough to like him. This isn't Naruto where the main character has no development whatsoever. Shu started as an ignorant teen with a lack of self esteem, grew into a soldier/terrorist with a bit of self esteem, broke apart under stress and became pitiful again, pulled himself together and joined the fight again, became devastated at the loss of a dear friend and snapped, held up the facade of being an asshole to get people to follow him, got betrayed and sunk to rock bottom, where he decided that giving up was not an option and rose again to the top, only to still lose everything he cared about right at the very end.
You can say what you want, but with him, there were ups and downs which made him interesting and believable. Unlike most shounen brats who keep on blabbering about friendship all the time to pull ridiculous power ups out of their arses constantly. I can safely say that most of us, if faced with the same scenario as Shu, would have either fared the same or worse. I know I would have.

SongstressAeris said:
Shu's an interesting character for me. At first I thought he was a big pussy, then he seemed cool, then back to being a pussy, rinse, repeat. When Hare died I remember thinking, "yay maybe he'll finally grow some balls." He did, but sort of turned into a tyrant. I started liking him a little more after he lost his king's power, and once he gained it back he turned pretty badass (only took him like 19 episodes or so).

Personally I like him, not one of my all time faves, but I was pleasantly surprised with how he turned out.