[SPOILER] Manga, Anime, & LN Where The Girl MC Ended Up With Is Not The Main Heroine

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Added Sidonia no Kishi manga

[Tenzen12]

Who won? It wasn't that annoying non-gender gir... person I hope.

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^Nope, the monster won

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Added Maquia / Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou

When you want Main Heroine to win, they don't
The hell...

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Added Shuukan Shounen Hachi

[Tenzen12]

Pretty much best choice for that one. Though baka-updates sayis it's still on-going. I really hope noone will mess this beutiful vanila development.

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^Cheating rarely happens in Shounen

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Hidan no Aria manga just updated

And oh my god Aria is so annoying

Why the heck Main Heroine always won?

[darkofficer]

Cause the mc is a lolicon

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

Added Maquia / Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou

When you want Main Heroine to win, they don't
The hell...

Except Maquia is not the main heroine. She's the MC. Ariel hast he role of "main heroine" despite being male.

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^Two MCs .

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

^Two MCs .

There's no such thing. Ariel has the "heroine" role. That's how everyone would call him if Ariel was a girl and Maquia a guy. The fact Ariel is a guy doesn't automatically turns him into the MC.

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^Misaka, Touma, and Accelerator all are MCs
But Misaka is also Touma's heroine

[Twi]

Isn't Hamazura the Third MC?

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^My point is Multiple MCs concept exist in Japan

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by Twi

Isn't Hamazura the Third MC?

Does it matter whether she is third or fourth? At this point even Allister count as MC...

But we all know only true protagonist is golden retriever

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

^Misaka, Touma, and Accelerator all are MCs
But Misaka is also Touma's heroine

I guess it depends on what you mean by MC. In Japanese, the MC is called shujinko (主人公), the main protagonist of the story. And the heroine (ヒロイン) can't be the shujinko because by definition (the Japanese definition) a heroine is "the character who accompanies the shujinko, often a love interest."

In Maquia, the shujinko is Maquia herself, and Ariel plays the the role of heroine, only he isn't called that way because he happens to be a guy. The Japanese don't have an specific term for when the role of heroine is played by a male character, although it happens pretty often. For example, in Otome games, the girl is the shujinko and the male love interests play the heroine role despite being guys.

Another example similar to Maquia is Kakegurui. Yumeko is the shujinko and Ryouta plays the role of the heroine. Indeed, if you reverted the genders, you'd end up with a similar dynamic to Yu-Gi-Oh, with Yuugi as the shujinko who plays in the games and Anzu as the heroine character who cheers for him from the sidelines. Kakegurui is just the same only with the genders inverted.

In Index Touma is the shujinko. Misaka gets to be the shujinko in Railgun, but in Index she is just a heroine. In Danmachi Bell is the shujinko and Ais is a heroine, but in Sword Oratoria Ais is the shujinko and the heroine role is filled in by Lefiya and also Bell in his few appearances.

It's extremity rare to have two shujinko in the same story. It's not impossible, but it's extremity rare.

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^Koroshi Ai

Nuff said

Just as Shakugan no Shana has 2 Shujinkou, Shana and Yuuji
Maquia too has 2 Shujinkou, Maquia and Ariel
This is final

[Tenzen12]

Yeah protagonist (Shujinko) is by no means exclusive with heroine.

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

Just as Shakugan no Shana has 2 Shujinkou, Shana and Yuuji
Maquia too has 2 Shujinkou, Maquia and Ariel
This is final

Because you said so? Please. I didn't watch Shana, but Maquia's shujinko in Maquia. Ariel fills in the role of heroine. If the genders were swapped no one would even doubt this.