Comments on: Macross Frontier, I’m not an adult, I’m a MAN! http://www.reversethieves.com/2008/09/29/macross-frontier-im-not-an-adult-im-a-man/ A Blog Duet by Hisu and Narutaki Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:30:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jacobian http://www.reversethieves.com/2008/09/29/macross-frontier-im-not-an-adult-im-a-man/comment-page-1/#comment-1961 jacobian Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:58:54 +0000 http://www.reversethieves.com/?p=80#comment-1961 They really dropped the ball with Ranka's character in the second half of the series. Your points on her may have been valid for the first few episodes, but they made her excessively needy and selfish as she rose to power. While I got the sense that she was starting to grow when she started her rise to fame in episode 10, that quickly fell apart when she started to shirk the responsibility that came with her success. She remained a very static character for much of the series. It's interesting that the "Cinderella" analogy that was initially applied to Ranka ended up being much more suitable for Sheryl. In Eva, Asuka never truly recovered from her fall from grace. Sheryl, by contrast, receives her best character development after she loses everything. Even in spite of the hardships that she goes through, and even though she lacks Ranka's innate superpowers, she shows her mettle by taking up the responsibility that Ranka ran away from and helps protect the people of Frontier. She's easily the best written character of the year. They really dropped the ball with Ranka’s character in the second half of the series. Your points on her may have been valid for the first few episodes, but they made her excessively needy and selfish as she rose to power. While I got the sense that she was starting to grow when she started her rise to fame in episode 10, that quickly fell apart when she started to shirk the responsibility that came with her success. She remained a very static character for much of the series.

It’s interesting that the “Cinderella” analogy that was initially applied to Ranka ended up being much more suitable for Sheryl. In Eva, Asuka never truly recovered from her fall from grace. Sheryl, by contrast, receives her best character development after she loses everything. Even in spite of the hardships that she goes through, and even though she lacks Ranka’s innate superpowers, she shows her mettle by taking up the responsibility that Ranka ran away from and helps protect the people of Frontier. She’s easily the best written character of the year.

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