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Scores Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Rights". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved December 3, 2009. ^ "Yu Yu Hakusho: The Complete Guide (192 pgs) (Book)". Right Stuf. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019. ^ "A Silent Voice on AnimeLab!". YouTube. AnimeLab.Even now, the only fucking characters I can name off the top my head are Milizé, Shin, Raiden, Anju, Laughing Fox, and Gunslinger; notice how the last 2 aren’t even their real names but their military nicknames? Hell I don’t even know the name of the science chick, and that’s kinda sad.
Now, I get that the people I did manage to recall are basically the main cast, but why bother dumping all those expendable characters in the beginning then? I don’t even feel emotional or anything watching these expendables getting killed on and off-screen, because I literally don’t know their names: I haven’t been able to establish a connection with them. And that to me is very cheap writing and character design.
Speaking of cheap character design, practically all the expendables had plain character designs like mob characters, which made it even harder to tell them apart from each other. I guess that makes sense since they were literally designed to be killed for “emotional impact” or something like that. However, the main cast is also way too similarly designed. It’s pretty much just slight facial feature differences and hair style/color changes that you have to go off of. Like literally look at the MAL photos for Theoto and Daiya, and tell me the 2 don’t like 80-90% the same, smh.
On the other hand, I think the character design for Milizé is not bad. I like that Milizé had some wake-up calls that made her realise her virtue signaling was batshit useful. However, her angsty teen romance felt very forced and random: what reason does she have to suddenly fall for a dude who’s voice she can only hear, and who, relatively speaking, she’s barely interacted with over the course of her life.