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I liked all three of the main protagonists, but I always view Hikawa as the real main character of the show.

That much we can agree on.

But even he became repetative and one-track, never really changing or growing.

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Shouchi's happy-go-lucky nature can get grating after awhile, but he remains a sympathetic character throughout.

But he doesn't.

You can't just say he is something without proof. Time and time again, people die, and Shouchi is completely unfazed. We later learn he is ENTIRELY aware of the deaths, and his powers, but either through stupidity or cowardice (the show offers neither as true) he never mentions it. He never seeks out answers, he never does anything with his amazing gift. He doesn't MENTION his amazing gift. He just plants his stupid tomatoes.

That, to me, is worse than the monsters. He ALWAYS lets people die before he gets into action, and since tehre's a new monster every week, it's hard to say if he actually saved anyone at all. The only time he ever felt emoton was when his fake-girlfriend died, or when he foudn out his sister killed ehrself.

So basically, he only cared when something happened to somethign he loved. What about the children or parents or sibligns or friends off all those killed? Agito never even PONDERS, never even ACKNOWLEDGES that someone has died. He is worse than heartless, he's borderline mindless. He's not a character, he's a prop.

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Gills works well as a supporting character, even if his constant bad luck with female guest stars got a little ridiculous by the end.

What exactly did he support?

Because he had nothing to do with the show. He ran into Agito and G3 once or twice, but he was off by himself, and when he finally joined up in the last, oh, five eps? Lost his powers.

He did nothing.

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Hikawa, though, is easily the most engaging of the three. He's a guy who wants to get to the truth of what's going on, even when everyone else is trying to get him to give up or just shut up and follow orders.

And he rarely, if ever, truely seeks out that truth.

Good men want. Great men obtain.

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It always impressed me how he never gave up on trying to stop the monsters, no matter how obviously outclassed he was.

That's fine.

But that's not a lot to go on. PLENTY of characters don't give up, but accomplish far, far more.

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He was a great character and Shouichi always worked well as his more relaxed counterpart.

Not really.

Than again if Souichi were anymore relaxed, his heart would stop.

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The show wasn't perfect -

And yet, you said it was a masterpiece.

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Originally Posted by Locke

Oh God Agito is another piece of Japanese media using religious iconography while not understanding what they actually mean...AGAIN? And to boot they get something like evolution wrong? Don't they teach that in schools in Japan?

E-yup.

Evolution is not something you can really even define. It is actions passed on through offspring. And individual cannot really evolve. That's why we say a man adapts, but mankind evolves.

Honestly, this just reminds me of my favourite episode of one of my favourite cartoons: Beast Wars. In one episode, possibly the most famous episode of the show, the character of Dinobot had been undergoing some pretty intense inner trumoil. He, and all other characters, existed in Earth's prehistory. They were in the past, which meant either everything they did changed the future, or everything they did was meant to happen anyway. This nearly drove him to suicide, as he "could not live if not the master of >his< own fate." The evolution comes in part when Megatron gets the idea of destroying a key tribe of the ancestors of the human race to halt or alter their evolutionary journey, as humans would someday become an advantage to their enemies. Dinobot, after a bloody battle to stop this, is defenseless, and Megatron holds a proto-human hostage. Dinobot then grabs a stcik to beat Megatron, but it's not really effective. He then embeds a rock into the stick, creating a hammer to damage Megatron just enough to turn the tide. The protohuman witnesses the hammer's crafting, and later uses it to crack open a coconut to eat, and afetr that, kill a snake that had killed one of his fellows earlier. As the proto-human holds the hammer in awe of it's power, he screams to the skies as evolution at it's purest has taken it's first step. And yet oddly enough, if it itself a roundabout story. Dinobot introduced the human to tools, but Dinobot was only on Earth in it's perhistory because of humanity's technological achievements leading them there in the future. It's one of the most beautifully thematic moments in a cartoon show I've seen.