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Mar 19, 2013 7:57 AM
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Helpme said:
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It was very believable though. Out of all the romances she has gone through one of them would of had Toma's personality. There are plenty of people just like him in the real world who would go much farther than he did, so seeing at least one of his type isn't strange in the slightest for this type of show.


That's no reason to expect it in the show. Yes, there are plenty of guys who are possessive, but this is not meant to be realistic average guys. There are a reason to expect it however.

Zatheyll said:
What this show has done is show it is most definitely not a romance show. She doesn't get enough time to be with any one of the characters before being whisked off to another boy, and the entire setting doesn't allow for any romance. If anything this is a mystery/suspense show. The Heroine really shouldn't be feeling any romance for any of them, and what she does show is fake.


I'm afraid that's just wishful It's based on a game, and it's very much an otome harem game. The inclusion of someone like Toma is because a large part of the audience wants it. Just check the poll on this forum. And that's not surprising, they include it because it sells. There are even otome h games where the heroine gets raped. And they keep making those because it sells.

Can you give examples? I heard plenty of otome games but none which would include the heroine being raped.
Mar 19, 2013 8:17 AM

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DmonHiro said:
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Only way it would have been worse is if he also raped her... which I think he did.
gaudylakin said:
He did.

That's debatable, its part of his BAD END. It's called a BAD END for a reason.

Umeko said:

Whoa, details plz. Was that cut out of the anime, or did it happen during one of her drug-induced blackouts, or...?

No, it didn't happen in the anime because they did his happy end

aki3chan said:

Can you give examples? I heard plenty of otome games but none which would include the heroine being raped.

They're mostly R-18 games, kinda like eroge
Mar 19, 2013 8:19 AM
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He is a possessive person, but that doesn't make him a bad boyfriend.
I mean I think every boyfriend is like that, isn't it? wanting his girl for his own. Though he wasn't really her boyfriend from the very beginning, he pretended to be. but i think this is very common, he wanted her so badly that he lets his greed taking over him. which happens a lot in reality
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Mar 19, 2013 8:44 AM

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S_Yukina said:
He is a possessive person, but that doesn't make him a bad boyfriend.
I mean I think every boyfriend is like that, isn't it? wanting his girl for his own. Though he wasn't really her boyfriend from the very beginning, he pretended to be. but i think this is very common, he wanted her so badly that he lets his greed taking over him. which happens a lot in reality

I don't even know what to say to this.

If that's what you expect from a relationship, then I feel REALLY bad for you.
Mar 19, 2013 8:59 AM

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S_Yukina said:
He is a possessive person, but that doesn't make him a bad boyfriend.
I mean I think every boyfriend is like that, isn't it? wanting his girl for his own. Though he wasn't really her boyfriend from the very beginning, he pretended to be. but i think this is very common, he wanted her so badly that he lets his greed taking over him. which happens a lot in reality


Toma really has no excuse for his actions, especially when Ukyo's backstory is revealed.



Then again Ukyo might just be a special case but still, there is absolutely no justification for Toma's actions.
Mar 19, 2013 9:21 AM
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mistress_kisara said:
DmonHiro said:
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Only way it would have been worse is if he also raped her... which I think he did.
gaudylakin said:
He did.

That's debatable, its part of his BAD END. It's called a BAD END for a reason.

Umeko said:

Whoa, details plz. Was that cut out of the anime, or did it happen during one of her drug-induced blackouts, or...?

No, it didn't happen in the anime because they did his happy end

aki3chan said:

Can you give examples? I heard plenty of otome games but none which would include the heroine being raped.

They're mostly R-18 games, kinda like eroge

Well thank you for answering, but I meant names of the games?
Mar 25, 2013 6:28 AM

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Why is Yano Motoharu on that list.
Mar 25, 2013 6:36 AM

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Hell no. Toma is the best. If you know the video game, thier are good ends and bad ends to each character. Toma is yandere, but is still genuinly a nice person. At leasts he is one of the normal people. Unlike the murderers and weird supernatural power-ed people out there
Mar 25, 2013 6:46 AM

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Toma is yandere, but is still genuinly a nice person. At leasts he is one of the normal people. Unlike the murderers and weird supernatural power-ed people out there


Toma being a 'nice' person is debatable considering:
1. He murdered her in Shin's bad end (and implied that he's murdering Shin too)
2. Murdered the fangirls in Ukyo's bad end
3. Murdered Ukyo once
4. Ukyo said that Toma is the most difficult guy to get a good end with implying that she gets normal or bad ends with him most of the time. Hopefully it's the normal end because the bad end involves her being caged forever with implied rape.

Unlike Ukyo, he didn't have justifiable/understandable reasons for murder/insanity. He just....went insane all on his own. So yeah, he might be nice when nothing is pressuring him to snap but he's far from normal.
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Mar 25, 2013 8:29 AM
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Funny story. I visited animenews network and there was a top list of anime worst boyfriends and Toma was number one of the list. I'm not joking
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-list/2013-03-09
What do you people think? Does he really deserve to be on top of the list?


Hell yes he does! If I had a boyfriend who randomly locked me up in a frigging CAGE, DRUGGED me, kept everything in existence that might pose a 0.000000000675% of harm away from him, I WOULD DITCH HIM. Which, as a matter of fact, the heroine in for some bizarre incomprehensible reason, unable to do. He only did it because he "wanted to protect her". Yeah. LIKE HELL THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN!!! He'll start giving her anti-depressants whenever he sees her frown!
Mar 25, 2013 8:32 AM
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Definitely. When I was watching I had half a thought that maybe....he would move to remote area with a well. Chuck her down the well with a bottle of lotion & tell her to start rubbing it on her skin (Heroine would of course do that - possibly even with 'wow he cares about my skin in this damp well'. Orion: 'What are you an idiot?!?!'). Then of course he'd say well I've decided the best way to protect you is to actually kill you and stuff you &/or start wearing your skin. Hope you understand. It's all because I love you. Heroine:....guess so.

(Okay only joking as that would be a rather 'bad end' to a game route...but still....)

Although he does have strong competition if we're talking all of shoujo. Would have to think - it would be tough.


LOLing my ass off. That characterization was PERFECT!
Mar 25, 2013 9:35 AM

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Question: Did a lot of you guys even read his whole route, all ends, good and bad, from the games?

If not then your opinion is biased on the anime only and can't really count for much.

There are good and bad ends for reasons. The anime did the good route obviously.

Toma is a TSUNDERE. It's the character type he is. And also before you guys go on bashing Toma for his faults, why don't you take a gander at KENT'S game route. He's an ASSHOLE to the heroine on a psychological level. Sure he doesn't lock her in a cage or anything like that but in some ways he's really no better.

Also I didn't see anyone from the Mirai Nikki fandom bashing Yuno for her twisted, selfish, personality. She deserves more critique than Toma imo.

Not to mention if some of you guys are having this hard a time with Toma's character, then I'd really love to see how you fair when Diabolik Lovers get animated. Truly.
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Mar 28, 2013 8:35 AM
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KayChan4U said:
Question: Did a lot of you guys even read his whole route, all ends, good and bad, from the games?

If not then your opinion is biased on the anime only and can't really count for much.

There are good and bad ends for reasons. The anime did the good route obviously.

Toma is a TSUNDERE. It's the character type he is. And also before you guys go on bashing Toma for his faults, why don't you take a gander at KENT'S game route. He's an ASSHOLE to the heroine on a psychological level. Sure he doesn't lock her in a cage or anything like that but in some ways he's really no better.

Also I didn't see anyone from the Mirai Nikki fandom bashing Yuno for her twisted, selfish, personality. She deserves more critique than Toma imo.

Not to mention if some of you guys are having this hard a time with Toma's character, then I'd really love to see how you fair when Diabolik Lovers get animated. Truly.

Why can't we have the right to dislike toma or love yuno? T.T
Mar 28, 2013 5:49 PM
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KayChan4U said:

Toma is a TSUNDERE. It's the character type he is. And also before you guys go on bashing Toma for his faults, why don't you take a gander at KENT'S game route. He's an ASSHOLE to the heroine on a psychological level. Sure he doesn't lock her in a cage or anything like that but in some ways he's really no better.

Sure Toma may have blushed a few times in game, but I don't think he's tsundere at all. I'd think of Kent as this antisocial insensitive nerd, but at least he gained some senses and actually cared for her, but not the possessive crazy caring type Toma expressed. As minescope said, Toma did some awful things to the MC. As for Kent, the only thing he did was

For Amnesia, we saw Toma and a cage. In Amnesia Crowd, prepare yourself for Toma and ...
Mar 28, 2013 7:30 PM

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If hi is the worst than why is he #1 favorite in this pool :D
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=566995
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Mar 28, 2013 8:08 PM

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Because people are dumb.

(I'm joking, I'm not calling anyone dumb for their character preferences, though I sincerely don't understand how anyone can choose Toma over any of the other guys.)
Mar 29, 2013 10:52 PM
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Umeko said:
Because people are dumb.

(I'm joking, I'm not calling anyone dumb for their character preferences, though I sincerely don't understand how anyone can choose Toma over any of the other guys.)

Doesen't it depend when, the people have answered the question? If the poll was made just when the series started, I can imagine why people would pick Toma over others, since mostly knew nothing about the story or characters from visiual novel. Honestly, I would pick Toma, before his arc would started because he was presented as nice and caring person. Who wouldn't like character like that ....before the certian episodes?
Mar 30, 2013 10:21 AM

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Apparently the poll was created the same day/day after (depending on the channel) episode 9 aired, so... :/
Apr 2, 2013 9:39 PM

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DmonHiro said:
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Only way it would have been worse is if he also raped her... which I think he did.


Well if I remember right



Either way Toma was a nutcase. He started out as my favorite one cause he seemed like he was going to be a laid back, carefree dude. Oh boy though, complete wack job.
May 10, 2013 3:55 PM

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Ughhh...yeah Toma's kind of cuckoo in the head and as much as I love how he acts like an older brother and tries to protect the heroine...this guy totally does not make for a good boyfriend. He's definitely admirable in the sense that he really cares about her and does whatever it takes to protect her...but his obsession with possessing and controlling her is extremely creepy.



Not the kind of guy I'd want as a boyfriend. I get shivers down my back thinking about all the things he could potentially do to a girl. He literally acted as if the heroine was a freaking doll and as much as she is unresponsive and acts more dead than alive...she is a human being not a freaking pet. If you think about it...he does treat her like a pet by ordering her around. Srsly a guy I wouldn't want to be around.
May 10, 2013 4:09 PM

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KayChan4U said:

Toma is a TSUNDERE. It's the character type he is.It's the character type he is. And also before you guys go on bashing Toma for his faults, why don't you take a gander at KENT'S game route. He's an ASSHOLE to the heroine on a psychological level. Sure he doesn't lock her in a cage or anything like that but in some ways he's really no better.

Tsundere's may act tough and act a different way than they really feel to hide their softer and more sensitive side...but in no way does being a "tsundere" justify the act of locking the girl you love in a cage. Clearly there's something wrong with a person mentally if they lock a person in a cage even to protect them. I'm not saying he's really a bad person, but when someone is psychologically unstable and obsessing over keeping a person to themself and even going as far as caging them that is a person you DON'T want to be around no matter how nice or kind they may have been. People change, and of course it's not impossible to revert back to how he was before he became overly obsessive, however the fact is that he did change and is ill.

KayChan4U said:
Also I didn't see anyone from the Mirai Nikki fandom bashing Yuno for her twisted, selfish, personality. She deserves more critique than Toma


I think you bring up a big point. People think it's okay for Yuno whenever she wants to kill all of Yuki's friends or even chain him up to restrict him from being with anyone but her, but if you watched Mirai Nikki you should know what that did to him right? Is chaining someone you love to keep them away love? It means you don't trust them enough to stay with you, and you obviously are overly possessive for trying to take away to freedom of someone you love.

Yuno is really messed up in the head, and there is no denying that she is but I never thought that was an excuse for her to do all the horrible things she did. Before she turned twisted, she was a bashful girl full of hopes and dreams for the future, trusting of people, and that's the person that Yuki fell in love with...what she became was the complete opposite. Toma may be in quite a similar position. He was a prince to the heroine, always protecting her and helping her in times of trouble...this is the person she fell in love with. What he became after obsessing over protecting her is not. Same people, different state of mind is what I'm trying to say I guess.
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in Amnesia he was definitely the worst.. WTH was he thinking with the cage and all --'
but still, I don't think he's the worst of all times!
May 26, 2013 6:08 PM
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Oh my goodness, there are worst guys than him.
I thought that he was the best of the rest of them (though that only my opinion -_-) I had to admit though, in one episode he does do some creepy things but I think its cute... in a way...
Jun 22, 2013 11:52 PM

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What? I don't think toma was the worst o.o
I like him so mush, we was so cute, yeah he kinda exagerated with the cage part and sleeping pills. but
I like him, form me he was the best, he was fun, it wasn't borring, i like boys that are always energetic and lively.
So yeah he is kinda overprotective and possessive, my boyfriend is like that too, but if isn't exageraded i think is not bad. And the heroine knew that he wasn't like that, and she knew that he only want to protect her.
Jul 12, 2013 2:16 AM

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Surprisingly he's not the worst. Maybe his desire to protect was extreme. . . So don't go on like he hit her or even abused her.

He locked her in a cage to keep her away from harm's way, including him too.
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Well thats weird.
http://chocolatemix.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/amnesia-impressions-official-poll-results/
Hes number 1 out of all amnesia characters & out of all otome games hes usually in the top 10.
I dont agree, as Orion said himself, hes overprotective. He was scared of losing the Heroine because she has sooo many near deaths and then theres the fangirls :/
There are many worse than him, Kuro to Kin no Akanai Kagi <--- So many characters that are insane.
I actually liked him, especially after Amnesia Crowd. If only the anime explained him better ;3;
Aug 14, 2013 2:12 AM

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I wouldn't exactly consider him as the worst boyfriend since Heroine and Toma weren't actually going out. But if they were obviously especially if it were reality he'd be the worst boyfriend. I mean seriously! Who the heck locks some girl in a frickin cage to "protect her"? And I also hate the fact that Heroine could just casually sit there with some cute toys surrounding her as if she's a frickin toddler. I seriously don't get why there were so many problems with this anime.
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i kind of agree ^^' haha
o a side note, though, even though he was on the list, i still love Takumi
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Toma is a YANDERE, not tsundere.

And he should not be the worst. Ukyo is the worst in my opinion (which is based on the anime, before someone asks). Multiple personality disorder, with 1 one them trying to kill her, never knowing who he is...

With Toma you know: he is jealous, overprotective and head over heels in love with the heroine. When he found out she wasn't attracted to Ikki, he stopped his creepy behavior (toma, how could you do that?!?! you were so kind to her before!!!).

Yeah, Toma & Shin were my favorites..
Sep 13, 2013 10:13 AM

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Definitely yes... I don't get people who love a guy that cages a girl 'to protect her'. He's creepy.
Sep 24, 2013 8:18 PM

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I am not endorsing his actions. But I could see locking one of my two little sisters in a cage (temporarily until i came to my senses or terminated the threat.) if i felt there were people out to kill her and I was finding daily phone and physical threats made at her... and that sister decided to continually, wile being confused and while being sick, wander off and get hurt. (while he is not her sibling he grew up acting like one and i don't think he raped her or messed with her more than hugging her while she was awake)... the question I find more disconcerting than if he was "the worst boyfriend" or not is more is... did she just not poop or pee for 3 or 5 days! I am a nurse, let me tell you, people in coma's still have to go to the restroom. Seriously if someone wanted to lock me up for my own safety, lock me up in the bathroom, please.
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Pretty much.
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He did honestly frighten me the most out of the whole anime (even surpassing Ukyo) but I can understand his frustration in not being able to protect her.. I felt like his personality changed a bit when we entered his world though.. He was more possesive and overprotective.

But at the end I think he regained his reputation and I respect him for finally coming back to his senses, plus there was a pretty good reasoning behind why he did such things,

So to me he isn't anywhere near the worst boyfriend.
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He is not the worst boyfriend. I mean...yea...he puts people in a dog cage, but he is doing it to protect her. Also, people are forgetting the main part...sanity. He seems pretty sane, and he is totally boyfriend material. If you guys wont date him, I will.

In my opinion. He can put me in HIS dog cage. ;) I like games...
Jun 3, 2014 2:15 PM

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Rather than just Toma being the 'worst boyfriend' it's more like he's one of the worst CHARACTERS out of all the anime seasons I've watched to date. I really don't understand how anyone can like/ support him. He actually ruined the series and they gave him two and a half dreadful episodes (almost as bad as each episode of W: Wish in my opinion)
Fullmetal Alchemist Lover here^.^

Jun 27, 2014 4:16 AM

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Toma is not worst, he`s a good guy, he loved Heroine so much and wanted to protect her no matter what, even if it means being hated by the one you love, he always was carefull and soft with her, he didn`t want anything to happen to her, because he loved her so much, that`s why he caged her, because it was safe there, but when she was leaving the house something bad always happens because of Ikki`s fans. He knew that something bad it will happen to her if she leave the house, but she always leave the house that`s why he caged her.
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