Talk:Rance: The Quest for Hikari/@comment-30430789-20161116230931/@comment-27031093-20161118021126

You and I have almost the exact same tastes, man. I'm pretty against the Fated Girls system too. It seems really contrived and kind of stupid to me, along with pushing characters that he barely knows like Tilday and Miracle (even though I like them both) to unneccesary levels of importance out of nowhere. It also removes the independence from characters like Shizuka by, like you said, saying that she's fated to be with him no matter what. I comfort myself with the fact that the wording is only that they're fated to cross paths with him throughout their lives, which doesn't necessarily mean they have to be with him. With that said, I have my fingers crossed that Urza won't be revealed to be a Fated Girl in X.

Despite my dislike of the concept, Rance learning to be more attentive to the women in his life isn't really related to the Fated Girls thing at all. It's just him coming to terms with the fact that people other than him have feelings and that he cares enough about them to make sure that he won't hurt them anymore. At least for the time being, Lia and Feliss haven't been revealed as Fated Girls, and Rance's most visible development debatably comes from his interactions with them.