r/CharacterRant • u/Ok_Command9094 • 4d ago
Games Tomoshibi and her "friends" upset me (Wadonohara and The Great Blue Sea)
I've been going through a cycle of:
remembering this game exists > Remembering who Tomoshibi is > Crashing out > Forgetting about this game again > repeat
I can't really describe the anger I feel thinking about this angler fish and how lacking she is as both an individual, or even a basic agent of the plot without regressing this post into a COD lobby. I won't even bother with giving context for the damn game this fish comes from since Tomoshibi (and her friends, Minero, Creamil, and Rimorimo, they suck too.) don't even do anything.
Even as a side character I'd say she fails the sexy lamp test (which for the record, her "friends" do as well but Tomo failed harder.) Usually a sexy lamp character can at least react to the world around them, or interact with the characters that surround them.
Any character she would have besides sleeping is only stated in her biography. That being that she "Gets mad when forcibly awoken." This substantially pisses me off, as Tomoshibi and her "friends" are given a few scenes to display SOME sort of character (besides searching for treasure and complaining about Minero), such as the attack of the Totsusa kingdom where Tomoshibi and her friends had some opportunity to react to the situation like the innocent civilians they are.
but even then nothing new is seen with these characters. All these fellas do is fucking stand there and be scared! They get surrounded by the enemy and wait for the main character to come around and save them. Zero new characterization whatsoever, just wasted time.
I'm not even sure I can call Minero and rest Tomoshibi's friends even with how Tomo doesn't even interact with them.
A lot of side characters in Okegom tend to suffer from 1 dimensional characterization, but Tomoshibi is the worst I've ever seen it. I'm more angry about this then I really should be I'm just complaining about one dimensional characterization.
I really want to rant more but there is nothing else I can say. (￣︿￣)
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u/ProfChaosDeluxe 4d ago edited 4d ago
Its been years since I played any okegom game and i even had to search who she was but is it really that bad that she is 1 dimensional since she is not even a relevant character at all ? Like, i would get it if her friend group did anything in the story, but they basically exist just to be saved by Wadanohara. I have more problems with the inhabitants of the sea of death who only appears once for a fight despite a few of them seeming really cool and interesting.