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type_wildTHEY AREN'T CONNECTED TO THE MAIN BOYS.
(I mean, at least not before the final episode, and if there's going to be some connection in the final episode, it had better be a good one to excuse the fact that it hasn't been brought up before then.)
Seriously. The show is blatantly, exhaustingly concerned with connections (that is, relationships). It literally won't shut up about the "connections", and every plot point has been about someone's connection to someone else.
Team Otter's only connection to the boys is that the boys have the plates they want. The only time Team Otter meets them is when they show up to take the plates and kill them for the effort, and then later when they're taking them to the Boss Otter. They got some kind of connection to Keppi, sure, but Keppi is another character whose connection to anyone here has been a) nebulous and b) strictly business.
Obviously, Team Otter are important to the story because they're the agents driving the the plot that will eventually let somone have their wish granted, and because their failed connection is a lesson about... not doing business with shady symbols of humanites greed or something I have literally no idea what they're supposed to be. The point is, they're the ugly mirror of what they boys could have been. They're central to the story.
But they're not heroes, they're not main characters (check their presence in the OP and ED), and when it gets to the role they play in the story, they're strictly instrumental. They're the nominal villains who act as agents of the Big Bad that Our Heroes need to defeat, and their only connection to Our Heroes is that one of them became an incidental victim to their mindless violence.
Fandom's gonna fandom and I don't begrudge people liking whatever they like, but it's a pretty lonely existence to be the person who's here for the kappa boys and not to cry over the tragic gay policemen who have killed numerous characters in cold blood and who would've had murdered two children if they hadn't been main characters who were saved for plot reasons.
(and with that off my chest, I'm off to watch the final episode)
(I mean, at least not before the final episode, and if there's going to be some connection in the final episode, it had better be a good one to excuse the fact that it hasn't been brought up before then.)
Seriously. The show is blatantly, exhaustingly concerned with connections (that is, relationships). It literally won't shut up about the "connections", and every plot point has been about someone's connection to someone else.
Team Otter's only connection to the boys is that the boys have the plates they want. The only time Team Otter meets them is when they show up to take the plates and kill them for the effort, and then later when they're taking them to the Boss Otter. They got some kind of connection to Keppi, sure, but Keppi is another character whose connection to anyone here has been a) nebulous and b) strictly business.
Obviously, Team Otter are important to the story because they're the agents driving the the plot that will eventually let somone have their wish granted, and because their failed connection is a lesson about... not doing business with shady symbols of humanites greed or something I have literally no idea what they're supposed to be. The point is, they're the ugly mirror of what they boys could have been. They're central to the story.
But they're not heroes, they're not main characters (check their presence in the OP and ED), and when it gets to the role they play in the story, they're strictly instrumental. They're the nominal villains who act as agents of the Big Bad that Our Heroes need to defeat, and their only connection to Our Heroes is that one of them became an incidental victim to their mindless violence.
Fandom's gonna fandom and I don't begrudge people liking whatever they like, but it's a pretty lonely existence to be the person who's here for the kappa boys and not to cry over the tragic gay policemen who have killed numerous characters in cold blood and who would've had murdered two children if they hadn't been main characters who were saved for plot reasons.
(and with that off my chest, I'm off to watch the final episode)
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