Talk:Tokyo Ghoul: Pinto (OVA)/@comment-82.42.25.121-20151226160221/@comment-26967758-20151226215837

I'm not trying to add more wood to the flames or anything, but I don't know how you didn't see her as "this girl doesn't care" Haro. She really doesn't, at least from what I've seen. Her tone, her actions all seemed so aloof she could care less if Tsukiyama really did let her die.

I think there's something lost in translation here to be honest. When it was described that she was plain and boring, I think it was in terms of what if there's a person like this in real life. Obviously, if someone was chasing a cat with their camera around my school, I'd think they were doing something utterly stupid and a waste of time. But it's different when we watch it as story. You're only supposed to be invested in the character and their actions, so it doesn't come off as boring or plain, in fact it livens up the OVA. Both Tsukiyama's and Chie's actually. If anyone came off as one tone and boring, it was Matsumae's character playing her typical servant role.

I like Matsumae as a character, but her character is pretty standard and straightforward to the audience; she happens to be the servant of the Tsukiyama family and a teacher in disguise. Her role is interesting as a servant/teacher, but her character itself isn't. Chie's role is boring, she's just chasing things around all day, but her character is extremely interesting, and it makes you wonder why she would even put her own life at risk, which, to Tsukiyama, someone who's taken lives so easily and devoured it like it's some form of delicacy, couldn't comprehend. I think the studio did it justice. Obviously, a lot of people will disagree with me, but that's their problem.