Thread:RaijinSenshi19/@comment-31623047-20170730185445/@comment-6102960-20170731111100

Just to get my "Gao is a bad character" post out of the way:

1. As a character, Gao solely exists to push the plot forward by being the one that can "win" in the end. Baku is the one studying cards, literally everyone else is doing all the action until its time for the final fight, take the end of DDD for instance. Gaito and Tasuku were the only ones doing anything because "they didn't want to bother Gao and Bal", when those two are just as involved in the mess. They deliberately avoid having Gao do anything productive in favor of doing stupid jokes.

2. As a continuation to the above point - Gao does not grow as a character. Gao is the exact same from Episode 1 all up to today, bar having SOME small and miniscule moments where he has acted differently. The problem is that he is a fullfilled character, has always been, so there is nothing to improve on, except...

3. The friendships. All the characters in this series seems to bend over side-ways just to become Gao's friend, and afterwards, they do EVERYTHING for the guy. There is just one plotline left that I feel like they can do to make Gao grow as a character, and that is the "Not everyone is going to be your friend" lesson. You can't sit here and tell me that Gao blindly accepting anyone as a friend is a good thing. Heck, after Kyoya tried to mass-control all dragons, Gao PRAISED him. Slap in the face, ruining the climax of the series. (But the final episode is 10/10 )

4. Lack of actual substance. Gao doesn't really have any motivation to do anything in this series (except in Hundred, and at the very end of the seasons, where he NEEDS to fight the villain), he is just playing this game. He is just dilly-dallying around without a care in the world. Which, by itself, is not a bad thing...but combined with the above points, it just makes for a very cringy, annoying and sometimes infuriating character to have to deal with.

Honorable mentions that cant be included as actual points to his character include "The Great Depression Arc" and all the wasted potential otherwise.