I got into this series only this April. I saw it here and there before, but I have only a few vague memories of it. Anyway, I guess it's like how a hipster is, only that I didn't like it till long after it was cool! (Bad joke, I know.)
What hooked me was that it was about a girl with god-like powers, but who didn't know she had them. It led me to reading more and more about this series till I found ways to view it myself. I've since bought some of the e-books of the novels, the e-books of all the manga, and the e-books of all the spin-off manga Nagato Yuki-chan.
Probably my favorite character is Yuki Nagato. She's fairly interesting as a humanoid interface created by the data integration thought entity (DITE). The other 2 humanoid interfaces we meet are quite sociable, but Yuki is almost autistic-like (Japanese sources have described her as being 自閉症気味 jiheisyou-gimi "having a touch of autism"). As an autistic person myself, who throughout virtually all of grade school received extensive social training, I think this kind of character is cool.
She has difficulty expressing herself, which can lead to her feelings building up until they explode outward. I've had this problem throughout all my life. In addition, she could be quite literal (or perhaps making a joke out of her literal tendencies), like in the Remote Island Syndrome scene where she wouldn't open the door. As a kid I had problems with this, but once I've become more self-aware I might make my literalness into a joke. We also sometimes see her make stereotyped, repetitive behaviors like in Sigh when we see her spin the wand around and around. I'd do the same sorts of things.
Anyway, I also liked the big movie and would like to see how some of the future stories would be when animated.
Perhaps most bothersome to me was the Mikuru abuse.
I got into this series late, but I like it.
I got into this series only this April. I saw it here and there before, but I have only a few vague memories of it. Anyway, I guess it's like how a hipster is, only that I didn't like it till long after it was cool! (Bad joke, I know.)
What hooked me was that it was about a girl with god-like powers, but who didn't know she had them. It led me to reading more and more about this series till I found ways to view it myself. I've since bought some of the e-books of the novels, the e-books of all the manga, and the e-books of all the spin-off manga Nagato Yuki-chan.
Probably my favorite character is Yuki Nagato. She's fairly interesting as a humanoid interface created by the data integration thought entity (DITE). The other 2 humanoid interfaces we meet are quite sociable, but Yuki is almost autistic-like (Japanese sources have described her as being 自閉症気味 jiheisyou-gimi "having a touch of autism"). As an autistic person myself, who throughout virtually all of grade school received extensive social training, I think this kind of character is cool.
She has difficulty expressing herself, which can lead to her feelings building up until they explode outward. I've had this problem throughout all my life. In addition, she could be quite literal (or perhaps making a joke out of her literal tendencies), like in the Remote Island Syndrome scene where she wouldn't open the door. As a kid I had problems with this, but once I've become more self-aware I might make my literalness into a joke. We also sometimes see her make stereotyped, repetitive behaviors like in Sigh when we see her spin the wand around and around. I'd do the same sorts of things.
Anyway, I also liked the big movie and would like to see how some of the future stories would be when animated.
Perhaps most bothersome to me was the Mikuru abuse.