You really don't take comedies well, do you?
It's not a comedy; comedies are funny.
You don't have to succeed at comedy to be a comedy.
@eveil
You're right. Just look at Two And A Half Men. But when your "comedy" characters make Charlie, Judith and Evelyn look like saints then you might reconsider calling at a comedy. ;)
@kay4today I've seen comedies with more unsympathetic protagonists than the ones on Two and a Half Men and worked, but those were usually for people who have a dark sense of humor. That said, from what I've heard about The Familiar of Zero, it sounds like crap, more specifically one of those crappy Tsundere rom-coms except here the Domestic Abuse is taken Up to Eleven. Which is terrible because they almost always portray the abuser as a suitable Love Interest.
Z n T original is an oddity - many people love it BECAUSE they hate how the original series is like, Fanservice and Flat Characters, and that's why there seem to be a silly amount of Fix Fics, which typically fall into two categories: have Louise summon someone competent, someone she wouldn't dare abuse like she does with Saito or... basicly just deconstruct the whole premise and see what happens from there (the results are generally not pretty). But that's probably what you get when the author of THIS series is the same guy who wrote the story board for hentai games with tentacles and gang rape (I'm not kidding, look up "Jiburiru the Devil Angel"). A healthy series, Z n T is not and I too am generally annoyed when people unironically say they like it - sorry but I'm not a psycho who's into domestic abuse depicted as "hot" and/or normal.
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Fridge Horror.
That's what this series is all about.
Since the first instance, when Saito is kidnapped from his world and enslaved, the entire series is nothing but a sickfest of Unfortunate Implications and unlikeable characters.
Some fans say it's gets better several volumes (seasons) latter. I don't care, I couldn't pass from the 5 chapter without becoming ill and hating, loathing louise. and several of the "charming" side characters.
Saito may be a pervert, may be an Idiot, may be an inconsiderate twit but he is still a human being. The way Louise treated him is beyond criminal and redefine Moral Event Horizon all on its own. The fact that this mediocre, worthless writer tried to make it comedy its what sicken me so much.
She destroyed his dignity, his life, feed him like an animal and brutally punished to the point that if it wasn't an Anime he should be crippled and we are supposed to be sad for her? Fuck her, fuck her to hell. I don't care how badly she was treated, how many excuses you pile to her situation, how cute she is when she cry, its not a reason for the way she treated her fellow human being. And she had the gall to say its the way people treath their familiars? See the other students and how they interact with their Familiar to realize how fucked her view on relationship is. Hell, she is lucky she got Saito and not a griffin, dragon or chimera; any of this proud animals would have ripped her appart in matter of hours.
And then the series got the gall to put this as a romantic relationship. A healthy romantic relationship...
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND.
Seriously, FUCK LOUISE AND FUCK THE WRITER FOR THIS PIECE OF CRAP.
This is the bottom of the cesspool that had become the Tsundere archetype, with other horrros that are Domina no Do. Read the Fanfic and don't waste your time with this mindless, putrefact parody of Romantic Fantasy... whathever.