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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

Who was more annoying in your opinion? Onari or Shunpei?

Oh I have been waiting for a question like this for a long time. Shunpei. Easily Shunpei. Shunpei is my go-to example for how not to do a side character. For that matter side characters were one of my biggest issue with Wizard as a whole. The main thing I'm looking for in side characters isn't necessarily just their personality but rather their interaction with the main characters. What is their relationship like, how does that relationship affect one another, do they grow from that relationship etc. With a couple of exceptions, I found that Ghost was rather good in this aspect. Akari was easily that best example of this. Onari could've been developed a bit more but I liked his interaction with Akari and Takeru. Grandma Fumi, amazing. Kanon is admittedly a bit lacking, her interaction with Alaina and Makoto could've been expanded more(Hopefully the Specter movie fixes this). Narita and Shibuya are really the only duds in this case.

Wizard on the other hand, aside from Koyomi and Rinko (although they still have issue), every other character could've been removed from the show and not a single thing would happen. Wajima, really just there to make rings. I don't remember many instances of him offering advice and encouragement to the other characters. The donut people, useless. Shunpei, absolutely wasted. His whole apprentice/assistant status to Haruto goes nowhere, his character doesn't affect anyone, and most of the story arcs that focus on him aren't that great anyways(do we need to be reminded of the arsonist episodes) The only part of him that I ever found interesting was in the finale when he decided to train under Wajima to create rings, something I think should've of been introduce the moment he entered the status quo.

So yeah, while you could argue that Onari was the more annoying character, in terms of interaction, character relationship and just overall relevance to plot, Shunpei by far.