The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie and Relatable Characters

(Spoiler Alert) I just came from watching The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie, and it was a long time coming for it to come out in the U.S. I had my favorite quintuplet, Miku Nakano, and I was hoping that the main character, Futaro Uesugi, would end up with her. However, that did not happen, and he got together with Yotsuba in the end. The funny thing is that when I was thinking of the relationships, I did not think that he would get with Yotsuba, but acknowledged that they get along the best together, but more like she was a bro. Yotsuba was always there to help, but that is what I missed, in that she was always there. It makes sense looking back, as three of them were more upfront about their feelings for him, one of them was just kind of on the outside, but Yotsuba was always there but just in the periphery. I kind of feel fooled, in a sense, like I should have figured it out, but at the same time, just about any choice would have made sense.

There was some good character writing in making these characters seem like real people with their own goals, personalities, complexities and ambitions. Even for me, that is a struggle, especially writing primarily fantasy adventure stories. Someone named The Mustard Prince who can do magic can be difficult to humanize, for example, and I try to do it by how he reacts to different situations. Obviously, with him not living in our world or in a real-world setting, it will be more difficult to humanize the character, but he does have fears, courage, a lack of understanding of basic things, and the like that keeps him relatable.

I have found that when writing characters to really think about them and how they would react to certain situations or other characters. It has helped me a lot and has made my writing better. When I first started writing, my characters remained as these blank slates throughout, and it was not conducive to good character writing. I want to create characters that audiences will remember.