Re: Why so much Fushugi Yugi hate?

Also,>
>Miaka is, unfortunately, the ultimate Mary Sue.  She's a deliberate Plain
>Jane, she's clumsy and piggish, she isn't that smart and isn't that popular,
>yet all the impossibly beautiful and nice men (including the gay one!)

>meets in the Universe of the Four Gods fall in love with her, she's the
>"princess" (well, the Miko) of some unknown land and turns out to be the
>most important person ever blah blah blah.  All of this could be tolerable
>if she weren't so aggravating - she's very whiny and stupid (take

>episode...5, I think it is, where the mirror Miaka appears.  She could have
>dealt with that in any number of ways, but noooo, she had to take the most
>melodramatic way out...) and unbelievably noble in a bad 

>way if you get what
>I mean.  This is one of Yuu Watase's greatest failings - she can't write
>strong lead female characters for some reason!  Just look at Ayashi no
>Ceres' Aya or Alice 19th's Alice for

>urther confirmation of this.  Yet she
>writes fantastic villains like Nakago...

And she doesn't seem to grow either. Usagi from Sailor Moon was clumsy, but she
managed to show great strength at times. I don't mind a girl starting off not
being the best person in the universe, but I expect some growth and change from
bein g in a different world- being suzuka(sp?) no miko is a huge responsibilty-
it would be admirable if she grew into it.
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