I think I’m actually starting to dislike Narumi’s character in this show a bit. He seems to be taking the high and mighty protagonist route and I think the show would be better off without it.
This is the face of the most trustworthy person ever.
What do I mean by this? I mean that there constantly seems to be problems that occur in the lives of both random one off characters and the main cast themselves, and Narumi seams to always make their problems his problem sort of out a sense of justice or nobility. Once in a while this trait is not inherently bad, and makes for really good plot development but when it’s used constantly almost every episode? I have to ask why he found it so hard to find friends when he moved to his new school at the beginning of episode one.
And now Narumi is friends with an older Yugi Moto. FAB.
The other part of this character trait, particularly in anime is that it usually doesn’t manifest in the character’s life until the camera is trained upon them in their later lives. I doubt Narumi was this way in elementary school, because if he was I bet he would have had quite a number of friends in his early life, and not the perceived amount of very few that he had when he met Alice.
This looks, SO bad right now...
But seriously though, back in the first episode he got involved in Alice’s investigation even though he was just a pedestrian on the sidewalk, then later in episodes 2+3, for the sake of a young girl he stood up and completely ripped of a Yakuza group of their money. He was being completely badass, and then afterwards? No one treats him any different; he’s still considered a newbie and that young guy that did some things. It’s like the only reason that his character does these things is because the plot needs him too.
And he's completely pinned and therefore useless. Lovely.
I’d label him as a merry sue if it weren’t for the fact that he also gets his ass kicked a lot during the course of the show, which a merry sue normally wouldn’t, or at the very least if he were to get beaten up he would have put up a good fight unlike how Narumi just kind of submits. Next episode we clear up a three parter involving people from “The forth” (Yes that’s his name)’s past and now Narumi wedged himself into the problem.
Who are you? Who Who? Who Who? (I REALLY WANNA KNOW!)
I almost kind of wish that Alice has more screen time now, she’s been looking almost like an afterthought sometimes in these past two episodes and it has me discouraged. But the writing was still good so I’ll just sit here hoping it gets back to being as good as it was in the first several episodes.
