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14- Zin

The least important of the original 8 ontinues to be, well, exactly that. Zin is a secondary character but it's ok. He does get a door in this game, but it's actually about Kilika. Because while she is hiding some weaknesses and douts, Zin is actually quite at peace with his life atm, even if not everything is perfect.

It's interesting how everyone in the Zin/Walter/Kilika trio have doubts and pains but all of the 3 have accepted the traumatic events in their shared past and moved on. This is not how anime characters should behave! But it's how real life works. Walter goes on to continue to be a bad guy, Kilika changes jobs becomes a spymaster, and Zin goes back to his country to live his life as a bracer, exactly where he was before Sky started.

Zin is at the bottom of this tier but he doesn't mind. The man is too chill to get worked up over that. He lets Richard and the ladies pass him like a gentleman.

13- Tita

Tita, on the other hand, actually gets something in this game. But I'm not impressed.

There is the entire stuff with Agate which honestly I'd rather forget about. There is the stuff with Renne, though, which is a mixed bag. The first half of the door, with Tita desperately wanting to join the orbal gear project because she wants to reach Renne, is honestly great. So what is the problem there?

It never pays off.

She never, even once, uses the actual thing to confront Renne. I'm guessing it's because the second half of the door is optional so she is not guaranteed to have the orbal gear in the Phantasma when Renne shows up? But that's a weird design choice, just make it not optional in this case! And I'm looking online and I see Tita doesn't appear in the Crossbell arc, which is apparently when the Renne plotline is solved, so the entire set up was for nothing.

It's not without a silver lining though, because although she doesn't use the robot, she is the one responsible for preventing Renne from going on a rampage when the later comes out of the stone. Because, like I mentioned in the other write-up, Tita is the kid that makes the battle worth fighting, so not even Renne can bring herself to hurt Tita. It's a bummer that she accomplishes this by crying instead of, you know, kicking Renne's ass with a mecha.

This is still pretty minor and doesn't really knock Tita down, but it prevents her from passing anyone, or from resisting the Richard/Ries/Anelace attack from behind.

12- Anelace

I said last time Anelace's had no ceiling once she finally got a character arc. Well, the arc is here, and it's... not impressive. It's standard shonen stuff. She has doubts over what to use her sword for. She fights a strong guy, hears some words of wisdom from Richard, and finds a new path for the blade. It never ties with anything though, because Anelace, at the end of the day, is still a minor character with no big goals or traumas to speak of. She is mandatory in the lab section, where she has to fight her teammates, but nothing really comes from that.

But I'm letting her pass both Zin and Tita. Because Anelace is just fucking great. Her jokes always land. Any scene with her is more fun. Her victory speech continues to be flawless. I can't explain. Anelace just is. There is a reason I brought her to the final battle, and it wasn't just because she had the strongest weapon in the game.

This is about as high as an obvious side character can get, honestly.

11- Nial

He is barely around. Nial was really a one game wonder, huh. Well, the impact was huge and I love political stories so I'm letting him beat Anelace in the minor character league.

High Tier

11- Nial
12- Anelace
13- Tita
14- Zin

Mid Tier

15- Scherazard
16- Dorothy
17- Campanella
18- Gilbert
19- Cassius
20- Dunan
21- Mogran
22- Aina
23- Kilika
24- Amalthea
25- Loewe
26- Julia
27- Maybelle
28- The Ravens
29- Osborne

Low Tier

30- Beaublanc
31- Walter
32- Mueller
33- Don
34- Luciola
35- Kurt
36- Hans
37- Sieg
38- Erika
39- Rufina
40- Cid
41- Mary
42- Ein Selnate

Boring Tier

43- Kyle
44- Jill
45- Albert Russel
46- Queen Alicia
47- Dan Russel
48- Clem

Actually a Bad Character Tier

49- Lechter
50- Josette

Unranked
(previous rankings)

(God Tier)

(1) Estelle
(2) Olivier

(Very High Tier)

(3) Renne
(4) Agate
(5) Joshua
(6) Weissmann

(High Tier)

(7) Kloe
(8) Kevin

(17) Richard
(???) Ries