Do you think Shikimori is a good main girl?

LGD-Valtar said:

honestly bro idek and I've watched the entire thing. it's like a 6 or 7 meh in my opinion so I guess the characters are a bit meh. they're more like best friends than a couple so the romance aspect doesn't quite workout. shikimori is just a boy and izumi is a girl so that's probably why the other girls look more feminine

Gojiknot said:
I’m only 3 episodes in so idk if I just don’t know enough, but so far shikimori is only good for two things, making faces and saving Izumi from bad luck. I feel as if hachimitsu and nekozaki have a way better personality. Honestly I feel like the story would be much better with one of the other two girls dating Izumi than shikimori. Does it get better? Or does it get worse? lmao

Wards55 said:

Kamiya freaking supremacy W

dlee2040 said:
I overall liked her in the manga, but I dislike her portrayal in the anime. Compared to the manga, she just feels so barebones. I mean I already thought that Shikimori was overhyped before the anime aired, but you are most definitely not going to be able to understand where it came from based on the anime alone.

At least for me, they removed almost all of her good "cool" moments. I feel like a lot of the chapters removed from the manga show a lot more of her personality. People say that these chapters are episodic and don't have much relevance to the overall plot, but for a slice of life series, characters are everything and chapters like these were what made me interested in the manga in the first place. The few scenes that remain in the anime come off as super generic, partly due to the change in art style and partly due to the direction. They also put so much emphasis on her "cute side" that she ends up feeling very copy and paste. If that wasn't enough, we got that awful anime original backstory in episode 11. A lot of Shikimori fans seem to like backstory for some reason, but personally, I thought it was complete shit, and it undid everything she did in the manga. Apparently, she decided to completely change her appearance, persona, and hobbies all because she read one generic shoujo manga and wanted to be a cute girl to attract a cool boyfriend. This is not only the most cookie cutter motivation for girls in all of media, but it straight up contradicts her personality in all of those cut chapters. It honestly just feels like they're doing it on purpose.

There are a lot of complaints I have with both Shikimori's anad Izumi's portrayal in the anime, but I'm kind of too lazy to elaborate more. The manga isn't anything groundbreaking, but the anime feels like a huge downgrade to me.

Taguri said:
Shikimori is a top tier waifu regardless of how you look at it

_cybersadist_ said:

Exactly,she was supposed to be a waifu bait and I think she was great in that aspect...her personality was so much better than the likes of Marin,Nagatoro and the recent high school waifus. Shikimori wasn't meant to be a very well written lead like Kaguya,none of the girls I mentioned works like that. Despite that her writing is better than them,so I guess she's good enough if you know where to set your expectations before starting a show.

Taguri said:
Finaly someone who didn't say Marin is better than Shikimori. Tho for some reason I love Nagatoro more than Shikimori.