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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I know you've barely seen Ghost but I think Onari gives him some competition. He's more helpful but more annoying, so it kind of balances out.

I would...personally rather dispute that Shunpei is less helpful. I mean...maybe? Onari never really had the real moments of true heroism that Shunpei did--like when he risked his life to save Nitou's grandma, or when he did the same to save a Gate's hope when Haruto was kind of losing sight of his goal. They're not many, but they are unarguably great things he does that one can latch on to (as I do, sometimes) to say, well, he's not too bad. He also has a goal, to be even more useful to Haruto, at the end of the show, and he does end up doing so in the Sengoku Movie War. Shunpei isn't amazing but I really don't think he's all that useless.

On the other hand, Onari...gives Javert onigiri a couple of times? Really, he just doesn't accomplish much. He does kind of throw himself into danger's way a few times because he wants to be useful, but it literally never once proves useful. It never gets any actual results, it's just jokes. (Well, never up until episode 48, but even Kanon was beating up Ganma at that point so the writers just sort of stopped caring for that bit just so they could have the team all together so eh, doesn't count). In the end, the best he ever did was deal with Javert, and at the very, very end, he was just what he was throughout the entire show: a fucking joke. Which I mean, is ok, but...it's not ok.

He also is indeed far more annoying.

I dunno, maybe it's just because I watched Wizard after I'd already watched so much of Ghost, after hearing so much about how Shunpei was Literally The Worst, and seeing Onari compared favorably to him, but I never saw anything wrong with him.* Even now can not figure out why the guy is so hated. And perhaps for the same reason, I'm kinda prejudiced in this respect. Because man, screw Onari.

*myna bird episodes aside. the myna bird episodes are...they're not good for anybody, is all im gonna say