Ookami Kakushi — 01: Fun With Stereotypes

Wel­come to Fun With Ste­reo­types. Is your plot alright? Do you have okay char­ac­ter designs? Well, it’s now time to give your char­ac­ters per­son­al­it­ies. What bet­ter way than use ste­reo­types that most people hate and/or are sick and tired of see­ing?

The Male Prot­ag­on­ist — The Bor­ing, Nice Guy Who Every­one Just LOVES

I was never noticed before, but now that has changed!

Make sure to make him nice and maybe a bit of a pushover. For the heck of it, let’s make him blush a lot and have a crippled sis­ter. The whole class pretty much likes him as well. Don’t for­get he’ll have a clingy jeal­ous girl as his admirer. Wow! The audi­ence will love him, right?

Clingy Jeal­ous Girl

I LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH WE LIKE MET YESTERDAY OR SOMETHING

Speak of the devil! This girl will imme­di­ately take a lik­ing to our prot­ag­on­ist. Why? Who knows. She’ll be so clingy that she’ll con­stantly grab onto his arm, announce her love like it is no big deal, and doing everything in her power to make sure he’ll only inter­act with her. This char­ac­ter will prob­ably annoy the audi­ence until they want to stab her, but let’s add her any­way. You have the option of giv­ing her a sad past to make us sym­path­ize. It’s your call.

Class Rep­res­ent­at­ive

Hello, I have no real flaws as of right now. But when you find out my flaw, it prob­ably won’t be any­thing big.

Okay, she’s not exactly the class rep but she resembles one kinda. This char­ac­ter is pretty. She seems quite caring. She’s also friends with our clingy jeal­ous girl. Any objec­tions? There won’t be any­thing remark­able about her. Unless she turns out to be a yandere. That would be interesting.

The Mys­ter­i­ous Loner

“Your very exist­ence is annoying.”

She should have dir­ec­ted that quote to Isuzu. Now, let’s add a mys­ter­i­ous loner. It seems like the class doesn’t like her. She may be con­sidered weird, cursed, and just lacks social skills. Your choice. We shall add a bit of mys­tery to her to make the audi­ence interested.

Thoughts

The first epis­ode wasn’t all that bad. The plot is not hor­rible and still interests me, but the char­ac­ters are just…annoying. Isuzu bet­ter change soon or else.

Hon­estly, it was annoy­ing just to watch each char­ac­ter come on and imme­di­ately know what kind of per­son they are. Noth­ing really remark­able about any of them. Nemuru is okay though. She actu­ally is the most likable char­ac­ter I see here. Hiroshi is just BLEH.

Some of the labels I gave them might be wrong, but that’s my first impres­sion of them. I’m sick and tired of the clingy jeal­ous girl and the loser prot­ag­on­ist who some­how gets mul­tiple girls to like him. I mean, ser­i­ously, how does he even do it?

I’ll con­tinue watch­ing, but I have to say the over­all epis­ode was just meh.