Dash-chan fanbrats, a word, please...
Now, I know I'm fighting a losing battle here because small fandoms are impossible to sway when it comes to characters, but for Christ's sake, can we be fair here? You don't even need to know the show to understand my rant on this one.
Who is Dash-chan, you ask? Saito Dashiko, otherwise known as Dash-chan, is a seven year old girl who's also a super hero. She's adorable, she's a clutz, and her powers backfire hilariously. On a team of stereotypical macho men who are all different kinds of badass and who can lose gallons of blood without dying, she's the little girl who cries when she scrapes her knee. The entire manga revolves around her being the only other super hero in town besides said badasses, and they all act as her surrogate family/protective older brothers/dads.
Basically, it's the cutests manga you will ever read, ever.
Dash-chan is a rather sweet girl. She wants to make people happy, so she fights crime with her powers to make the world a better place. She's always either doing something she thinks will put smiles on her teammates faces (like painting pretty flowers on the ceiling or baking a birthday cake) or she's trying to find out how to make them happy ("What's your favorite balloon animal? :D"). On occasion, she asks inappropriate questions - like asking Kuro if he was going to marry Satoshi, much to the embarrassment of them both. (Her logic is that they argue like her mommy and daddy do.) For the most part, her antics are amusing if occasionally damaging to the team.
Some people, however, don't seem to get the point of the manga. The themes of family, love and gentleness seem to have been lost on these people. Common complaints:
Dash-chan has too many super powers!
Dash-chan doesn't have enough super powers!
She's too old to be acting like this!
She's being too mature!
She's illiterate!
She's too young to be a sidekick!
I'm tired of the pudding joke!
...Okay, allow me to breathe deeply once before explaining this: In a universe where the harder you work, the more powers you get, it is actually reasonable that she has her three superpowers. And she's not a wiz kid at them, either, so that crosses out the possibility of her being a Sue. As for the more powers thing - why exactly does a seven year old need to be as powerful as a twenty year old? If she had any more powers and got control of them, she'd be on the level of men three times her age. That reeks of canon sue.
Seven year olds act weirdly, people. They can be crybabies, or they can be very serious, or they can be profound on accident. Usually they will accomplish all of this in the span of five minutes. That's just how they are. So she cries when she skins her knee and lends a sympathetic ear to Kuro. That first reaction is normal and her mom told her to be a good listener when her friends have problems. That's hardly unrealistic. (And her offering Kuro her juicebox was just precious.)
Also, kanji. Look it up. You'll note how they're taught by grade level? A seven year old won't know all of them. Doesn't make her illiterate. She's seven. Sometimes things go over her head. Oh well - that's life, and that does not a bad character make.
As for the sidekick age thing, that's just grasping at straws. If you people are cool with Chibi-Moon, Mew Pudding and other such young-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-cast characters, you can NOT turn around and whine about Dash-chan.
And the pudding joke =/= a valid reason to hate her. Don't hate the character, hate the running gag.
Or better yet, don't hate anything at all.
Who is Dash-chan, you ask? Saito Dashiko, otherwise known as Dash-chan, is a seven year old girl who's also a super hero. She's adorable, she's a clutz, and her powers backfire hilariously. On a team of stereotypical macho men who are all different kinds of badass and who can lose gallons of blood without dying, she's the little girl who cries when she scrapes her knee. The entire manga revolves around her being the only other super hero in town besides said badasses, and they all act as her surrogate family/protective older brothers/dads.
Basically, it's the cutests manga you will ever read, ever.
Dash-chan is a rather sweet girl. She wants to make people happy, so she fights crime with her powers to make the world a better place. She's always either doing something she thinks will put smiles on her teammates faces (like painting pretty flowers on the ceiling or baking a birthday cake) or she's trying to find out how to make them happy ("What's your favorite balloon animal? :D"). On occasion, she asks inappropriate questions - like asking Kuro if he was going to marry Satoshi, much to the embarrassment of them both. (Her logic is that they argue like her mommy and daddy do.) For the most part, her antics are amusing if occasionally damaging to the team.
Some people, however, don't seem to get the point of the manga. The themes of family, love and gentleness seem to have been lost on these people. Common complaints:
Dash-chan has too many super powers!
Dash-chan doesn't have enough super powers!
She's too old to be acting like this!
She's being too mature!
She's illiterate!
She's too young to be a sidekick!
I'm tired of the pudding joke!
...Okay, allow me to breathe deeply once before explaining this: In a universe where the harder you work, the more powers you get, it is actually reasonable that she has her three superpowers. And she's not a wiz kid at them, either, so that crosses out the possibility of her being a Sue. As for the more powers thing - why exactly does a seven year old need to be as powerful as a twenty year old? If she had any more powers and got control of them, she'd be on the level of men three times her age. That reeks of canon sue.
Seven year olds act weirdly, people. They can be crybabies, or they can be very serious, or they can be profound on accident. Usually they will accomplish all of this in the span of five minutes. That's just how they are. So she cries when she skins her knee and lends a sympathetic ear to Kuro. That first reaction is normal and her mom told her to be a good listener when her friends have problems. That's hardly unrealistic. (And her offering Kuro her juicebox was just precious.)
Also, kanji. Look it up. You'll note how they're taught by grade level? A seven year old won't know all of them. Doesn't make her illiterate. She's seven. Sometimes things go over her head. Oh well - that's life, and that does not a bad character make.
As for the sidekick age thing, that's just grasping at straws. If you people are cool with Chibi-Moon, Mew Pudding and other such young-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-cast characters, you can NOT turn around and whine about Dash-chan.
And the pudding joke =/= a valid reason to hate her. Don't hate the character, hate the running gag.
Or better yet, don't hate anything at all.