This could have been a poll, but there are just too many possible so I'm just going to pose who are your favorite secondary characters or sidekicks. (Example: in Inuyasha, Miroku is a main character. However, he is only a secondary character since the show is mostly about Inuyasha and Kagome)
Here are my top three:
Ryuuk- Death Note
Hagi- Blood+
Sesshomaru- Inuyasha
Washu- Tenchi Muyo
Mihoshi- Tenchi Muyo
Urd-AMG
Skuld-AMG
Sasami-Tenchi Muyo
Ryo-ohki- Tenchi Muyo
Martina- Slayers Next
Filia- Slayers Try
Zelgadiss- Slayers
More on the way.
(Not in order of most favorite)
sasami -tenchi,pretty sammy
misao amano , pretty sammy
fate teseteroisa , magical girl lyrical nanoha
lacus clyne , gundam seed ,destiny
harica fuminiga , rumbling kiminozo hearts
That's easy! (Listed in order)
1. Skuld (Ah My Goddess)
2. Sasami (Tenchi Universe)
3. Kiyone (Tenchi Universe)
4. Washu (Tenchi Universe)
where is Ayeka on that list kusha?
I assume Ayeka is a main character or I think at least Kusha thinks so.
I personally do not know either way.
Urd
Sasami
Tsunami
Kyo
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If we assume Ayeka to be a main character, then surely Skuld is also?
It depends on how you define a main character.
My thoughts are that if you remove the character and you destory the entire show, then the removed character is a main character.
Removing a secondary character would only lessen or weaken the show.
However, what I have just stated has a fine dividing line which is not alway easily visible.
To put it simply, I think Ayeka is main character(by a slim margin) because the whole show is about Tenchi, Ryoko and Ayeka and everyone else add substance to the story.
You cannot have Tenchi Muyo without Ayeka(however, it pretty hard to think of without most of the character like Sasami, Mihoshi, Washu, and etc.)
About Skuld...
WELLLLLLLLLL,
She is pretty close to the line, but the show is essentially about Keichii and Belldandy. NO Keichii and/or Belldandy = No show. However, having no Skuld is hard but not impossible.
But this is arguable stuff. I think we may need a defining rule on this by someone who understands this better. I am no expert.
for once you actually have said something that makes sence WLV...that is the best way to ID the difference between main and 2ndary characters: can the story exist without them? Ayeka is keyed to many many things in the TM series..if you cut her out, the show would lose most of its plotlines and main story. Skuld however, is not an essential part to the plot of AMG, in fact many episodes she is hardly in them anyways...
Well, Thank you.
However, if you have seen Red Drawf. You make me out to as smart as CAT is.
And so you understand, in one episode, Cats saids "Two good ideas in one lifetime. I am on a roll."
The following are true
1. Ryo-Ohki: Tenchi Muyo
2. Fu: Tenchi GXP
3. LaLaRu: Now & Then, Here & There
4. Melfina: Outlaw Star
5. Ryoga: Ranma 1/2
Melfina was a main character in Outlaw Star. Without her the whole series would have lacked a plot.
True, but the focal character was Gene Starwind, melfina was not that active in the series unless they were in the ship, that is, until the end. So you can say that she started out as a secondary character and ended up as a major character.
And remember, just because a character is not a main character does not mean the dont have a massive influence on the plot, look at most of the sub characters in tenchi, ie... Nagi, Zero, Tokemei, Kinoke, ect...
What the key is, does the anime center on telling the story of the character, ie Tenchi obviously centers on Tenchi, so the rest are just supporting characters, none of the tenchi series would have evolved at all without ryoko, considering she is the first character he meets in each, yet she only supports the telling of tenchi's story.
This is why I consider melfina a secondary character.
It is a matter of opininion but a character intergral to the plot of the entire series is not usually secondary, and I'm not gonna touch the Tenchi thing because that was disputed earlier in this post.
Well, much of this is open to interpertion, but many character in anime like Tenchi are close or on the line between secondary and main character to the point of where is hard to impossible to tell which way they are.
In terms of character perspective, she is a secondary character because SHE doesnt move the plot. She is a piece of the plot, a tool. She could be an inanimate object and would still serve the same purpose
Well, It been some time since I seen Outlaw star. So I will sit this one out.
i really want to watch it again...grr...ill have to see if it is on youtube...
All of the episodes are up for free download on realitylapse.com
ohh...ty ty ty...i needed that
Hotohori- Fushigi Yuuhi
limdo- Fushigi Yuuhi-Genbu Kaiden
Yuki- Fruits Basket
Ayame- Fruits Basket
tessa tesetorisa full metal panic
Wow it's been a while since I last visited this topic.
To answer the question from (what....post #3?), my answer is this:
Ayeka is defiantly a primary character. The anime Tenchi Universe / Muyo! is about a love triangle between Tenchi, Ryoko, *and* Ayeka. That is how I determined that Ayeka is a primary character.
Skuld on the other hand, is defiantly a secondary character because the anime Ah My Goddess is about Keiichi and Belldandy. It's been pointed out above that Skuld rarely appears, in fact, she doesn't even appear in the Anime until episode 14 out of 26...that's over half the anime with no Skuld!
Now in season two, it could probably be arguable that Skuld is a main character, since the anime is now more about a love story between Keiichi and Belldandy, *with* her two meddling sisters getting in the way...however, I have to see Season two, so I'll leave this conversation at that.
Still, the series is orbitted around Keiichi and Belldandy more than Skuld or Urd.