![]() The "Why is he watching her so closely?" angle is played deliberately. As if the opening and ending animations being all about her wasn't enough to tip you off. The story is told from his point of view but it's pretty obvious the protagonist is Revy. Subverted in The Rolling Bootlegs: while it appears that Maiza is relating the story about his friend and subordinate Firo to a Japanese tourist, it's actually Firo himself telling the tale, and the tourist just assumed otherwise because Firo never properly introduced himself and was wearing glasses like Maiza's.Rachel we mostly find out about the events aboard the Flying Pussyfoot from her report to the President of the Daily Days.This changes a bit in Season 2, as the story shifts from a more episodic nature to a plot-driven one, and Nagisa gradually steps up as a driving character, with more focus put on his backstory and Character Development, with him as the one who ultimately assassinates Korosensei. Since Korosensei's true nature and motives are supposed to be a mystery until fairly late in the series, telling the story from his perspective would give the game away too soon. Nagisa Shiota starts out as this in Assassination Classroom: The actual main character is Korosensei, and the series, at least early on, focuses on his interactions with the E-Class students, giving each one A Day in the Limelight.When a Biopic is made in this fashion, it is called a Sidelong Glance Biopic. Boy, Poster Girl, where the boy often resembles this, and Tagalong Chronicler, who has the in-story job to create the story of the protagonist. See also The Watson, whose job it is to merely set up exposition, P.O.V. If the story that starts out like this switches to the main character, it's Intro-Only Point of View. ![]() The real main character is also, by definition, a Non P.O.V. By nature they tend to act as a Decoy Protagonist, unless they explicitly state who the real main character is in the beginning. More rarely, it's not clear what the character is, exactly.Įnter the First-Person Peripheral Narrator, a character who is not the main character or protagonist, but is chosen as the narrator because they have an excellent view of the action surrounding the real focal characters.The author anticipates that the character might be difficult for an audience to relate to, compared with the other characters.The character's heroic abilities are such that it's hard to show them from his point of view without his coming across as conceited instead of cool.In fact, the events of the story are more significant for an observer. The character doesn't personally change or grow over the course of the story.The character doesn't understand the events of the story, and the author wants to provide a clear perspective on them. ![]() ( Unspoken Plan Guarantee features heavily.) The author wants to keep the reader wondering what the character is thinking, or the character has a secret the author wants to keep from the audience. ![]()
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