Talk:Mayuri Shiina/@comment-2601:200:C100:666:C53C:704A:FD2D:132E-20170913183020

I never managed to get attached to Mayuri. ): Clearly this wasn't the same for most(?) people, but she was just so helpless! Her only flaws were like, being clumsy, and she was never involved at all with the actual science part of the lab. I guess a lot of that, for me, was due to her lack of any active role in the story and the fact that she was always gentle and always consistent, never evolving or showing any thoughts that resemble those of anyone with an ounce of maturity besides holding Okabe up in that exceptionally girly way that a lot of characters do. I get that it's a thing and it works in the story, but I found it unbearably boring and inhuman. Where was the conflict, where were her aspirations and her responses to events? She was completely centered around the MC, and yet she was never interested in the same things, she never fought with him or showed any real negative responses to the things that bothered her -- all pertaining to Okabe, of course -- beyond voicing them. She's an anime character and not a real person, but if they wanted to make her more convincing, they could have added some kind of actual conflict.

I have no idea what they would have done together when not going through hard times. Did she just follow him around like a puppy? In that case, I would have preferred they make her a literal puppy, because that would make it more convincing to me. Sure, she was a little nerdy, but only for girly, cutesy things, and so she just seemed bland. Her character could be well-written in some places, and her role in the story made sense. I wish I could like her more, because I feel it would have boosted my enjoyment of the main story.

My opinion of her has improved since I initially saw the show, but yeah. Sorry about the rant but man it feels good to get that out of my system.