Would she be popular in modern times?
>>290629261Is she a virgin?
>>290629261Lina has a personality and having a personality is a turn off for modern otakus
anal with Naga
>>290629261She's popular now though?
>>290629261yes
>>290630263Imagine the sex
>>290632014Amelia's fat tits were not squeezed nearly enough
>>290633683Lina gets to have it for real
>>290629261In a sea of self-insert fanservice shows, it would set itself apart just by being a simple good vs evil adventure. I rewatched the first three seasons recently. Season 1 was even better than I remembered thanks to the Copy Rezo arc, but by Try, some episodes were a slog. Revolution was such a trainwreck, I still haven't watched Evolution-R.Then again, there's never been a female protag quite like Lina in the last thirty years. If they skipped the books' Deep Sea Dolphin arc, there could be something good to adapt. I'd hate for them to replace Lisa Ortiz and co. but their voices are very different nowadays.
>>290636642Fuck off, DaBrotherMan.
>>290629458Kazuma got away with itand moderns love Megumin who's in part a parody of Lina
>>290629261No. Characters like Lina would be considered too unlikable for the modern audiences. She is unapologetically greedy, quick tempered and willing to do collateral damage to entire towns for cash, food or petty reasons. She's very much a product of her time and would likely alienate today's viewers, who generally demand a deeper emotional anchor.Denji from Chainsaw Man is a pathetic character motivated by the most basic, sometimes crass human desires, but the audience forgives him because these desires stem from severe trauma and systemic neglect. We tolerate his disgust-inducing traits because his search for empathy and connection is so fundamentally human. Ryuko Matoi from Kill la Kill wears a tough, punk exterior, but her aggression is directly fueled by grief and a lack of belonging. Her vulnerability is baked into her design; she literally has to learn to be comfortable in her own skin (via Senketsu) to grow stronger.Lina's lack of empathy was the punchline of anime like Slayers. When she blew up a bandit camp and accidentally leveled a neighborhood, it was treated as slapstick because Lina is at her core a gag character (which is the same that can be said for everyone in Slayers, especially Naga). Today's audiences are highly attuned to the emotional realism of secondary characters. If a modern protagonist acted with Lina's level of reckless indifference, the narrative would likely treat them as a villain, or at least a deeply broken individual in need of a massive redemption arc. Modern viewers want to see the "why" behind the selfishness. Without a tragic backstory or a visible core of empathy, a character like Lina just risks feeling flat or actively exhausting to root for over multiple seasons.
