Moving on, I'm not sure if you have seen Shuffle!... the only reason I can think to avoid it is occasional random boobs. Its not even gratuitous really.
Well on to those Belldandy points. First topic, gocarts. There is a early cannon arc that goes through all the timelines I can remember. Its this motor meet that Keichi's club is partisipating in. Belldandy participates in a gocarts race with no training or preptime at all. An wins against professional level drivers. How? She uses her magic and direct hardlined, goddess first class, unlimited priority powers to copy all their moves, then snags extra runtime from the Yggdrasil to pwn them all. AKA she uses the Sharigan and gets only praise and no problems what-so-ever for using this method to win. In otherwords... Belldandy is the living incarnation of a certain trope and everyone loves her for it (not that most of them even could guess this without being drunk and vindictive). Its so bad in canon, that the biggest reason she like cooking so much is its the first thing she has apparently done in this incarnation that she didn't use that method for. Which means the only two skills she apparently has that aren't social, that would be active if she was running on someother system or lost he uber level security clearance, are cooking and some skills at ground vehicle repair and maintainence. Basically, she has all her skill points in Skill 1: X ranks, Skill 2: X ranks... Skill 37: X ranks. Where the Skill is whatever skill she currently has downloaded.
Compair to Urd and Skuld... who have there own skills and screw up because they simple can't do that. As far as I can tell, no one else in the series does that. Most of them don't have her access level. The developed characters that do act more like Urd. As I said, Belldandy is flanderized in her favor a lot.
Lets look at how she ended up with her boyfriend... first day on the job, first call and she ends up with a wish that makes her on semi-perment vacation.. with her new, awesome, nice guy boyfriend. Freak coinqidence... only she met him when he and her current incarnation were 5 or 6 and claimed him then. Which the Ultimate Force decided ment it was time to move them into their own private, holy love nest. Which she prormptly glitches reality into turning it from trashed to mint condition. Not that she actually fixes up the place for real like she promised the monk they are free renting it from. In short, ZOMG HAX comes off as Preseries Belldandy's standard MO.
(Note this is the bit I may be displacing from Urd, but I'm pretty sure I am.not) Then we get to their angels. Urd has one... Skuld gets one. They are familars that take a bit of your repressed self and give it form. Then there is Holy Bell who is a bit different. Holy Bell is not and angel standard, but instead a converted devil that is trying real hard to follow orders and not screw up. So when Belldandy is giving advise on angel control it just seems off. Like she is reading from a textbook. 'Reading directly from the book smart' is the kind of smart that annoys me most. Its so empty and impresses people... its the trait that makes many of the worst 'teachers' I've ever had.
I suppose that Belldandy could have been chosen as a vessel because she has enough power as a Goddess, First class, Unlimited... however I'm never sure its actually covered how much of that is granted power and how much is personal. Its like she has Sharigan... only far less inexplicable in it actions. I've already explained the 'gocarts' aspect of her being Sharigan. She fixates on her then claimed boyfriend for between 2/3 and 3/4 of her current incarnation's life span... and her known berserk button is getting between her and what (more who though) she has claimed as hers. Like Sasuke jumping Itachi in the first half of Naruto... without the glaring incompitence.
Come to think of it I could see Belldandy as Itachi by switching her skill set between goddess and ninja... to the point she was basically Itachi in her immediate previous incarnation. That would be a different tale though.
Anyway, Belldandy always struck me as daddy's little girl. She got a largely free ride. She pulls stuff in canon that if Urd tried... they'd need a new Urd. I mean she does relatively minor stuff... and get kicked out of heaven and loses her powers (forcing her room with Belldandy... then Skuld gets involved and Belldandy's life is move completely to Earth for her convinence.) Maybe Urd was the result of a political thing and Belldandy a chosen pairing. Unlike Urd I can't recall Skuld or Belldandy having a specific mom. I can't recall why Belldandy is even her rank... she obviously pulls as much crap as Urd... and often for Belldandy's personal benifit... while Urd is trying to help other people.
Urd has a job as the Sysop for the computer that runs the Universe. Skuld is a debugger at a young age. Belldandy gets a job and basically retires the first hour... with a boyfriend and benifits. As I said I think she largely gets a free ride in life. Now try to imagine her roll when dealing with Rin's life (granted I'm thinking post Shuffle! season one here.) The rest is for another post.
Well on to those Belldandy points. First topic, gocarts. There is a early cannon arc that goes through all the timelines I can remember. Its this motor meet that Keichi's club is partisipating in. Belldandy participates in a gocarts race with no training or preptime at all. An wins against professional level drivers. How? She uses her magic and direct hardlined, goddess first class, unlimited priority powers to copy all their moves, then snags extra runtime from the Yggdrasil to pwn them all. AKA she uses the Sharigan and gets only praise and no problems what-so-ever for using this method to win. In otherwords... Belldandy is the living incarnation of a certain trope and everyone loves her for it (not that most of them even could guess this without being drunk and vindictive). Its so bad in canon, that the biggest reason she like cooking so much is its the first thing she has apparently done in this incarnation that she didn't use that method for. Which means the only two skills she apparently has that aren't social, that would be active if she was running on someother system or lost he uber level security clearance, are cooking and some skills at ground vehicle repair and maintainence. Basically, she has all her skill points in Skill 1: X ranks, Skill 2: X ranks... Skill 37: X ranks. Where the Skill is whatever skill she currently has downloaded.
Compair to Urd and Skuld... who have there own skills and screw up because they simple can't do that. As far as I can tell, no one else in the series does that. Most of them don't have her access level. The developed characters that do act more like Urd. As I said, Belldandy is flanderized in her favor a lot.
Lets look at how she ended up with her boyfriend... first day on the job, first call and she ends up with a wish that makes her on semi-perment vacation.. with her new, awesome, nice guy boyfriend. Freak coinqidence... only she met him when he and her current incarnation were 5 or 6 and claimed him then. Which the Ultimate Force decided ment it was time to move them into their own private, holy love nest. Which she prormptly glitches reality into turning it from trashed to mint condition. Not that she actually fixes up the place for real like she promised the monk they are free renting it from. In short, ZOMG HAX comes off as Preseries Belldandy's standard MO.
(Note this is the bit I may be displacing from Urd, but I'm pretty sure I am.not) Then we get to their angels. Urd has one... Skuld gets one. They are familars that take a bit of your repressed self and give it form. Then there is Holy Bell who is a bit different. Holy Bell is not and angel standard, but instead a converted devil that is trying real hard to follow orders and not screw up. So when Belldandy is giving advise on angel control it just seems off. Like she is reading from a textbook. 'Reading directly from the book smart' is the kind of smart that annoys me most. Its so empty and impresses people... its the trait that makes many of the worst 'teachers' I've ever had.
I suppose that Belldandy could have been chosen as a vessel because she has enough power as a Goddess, First class, Unlimited... however I'm never sure its actually covered how much of that is granted power and how much is personal. Its like she has Sharigan... only far less inexplicable in it actions. I've already explained the 'gocarts' aspect of her being Sharigan. She fixates on her then claimed boyfriend for between 2/3 and 3/4 of her current incarnation's life span... and her known berserk button is getting between her and what (more who though) she has claimed as hers. Like Sasuke jumping Itachi in the first half of Naruto... without the glaring incompitence.
Come to think of it I could see Belldandy as Itachi by switching her skill set between goddess and ninja... to the point she was basically Itachi in her immediate previous incarnation. That would be a different tale though.
Anyway, Belldandy always struck me as daddy's little girl. She got a largely free ride. She pulls stuff in canon that if Urd tried... they'd need a new Urd. I mean she does relatively minor stuff... and get kicked out of heaven and loses her powers (forcing her room with Belldandy... then Skuld gets involved and Belldandy's life is move completely to Earth for her convinence.) Maybe Urd was the result of a political thing and Belldandy a chosen pairing. Unlike Urd I can't recall Skuld or Belldandy having a specific mom. I can't recall why Belldandy is even her rank... she obviously pulls as much crap as Urd... and often for Belldandy's personal benifit... while Urd is trying to help other people.
Urd has a job as the Sysop for the computer that runs the Universe. Skuld is a debugger at a young age. Belldandy gets a job and basically retires the first hour... with a boyfriend and benifits. As I said I think she largely gets a free ride in life. Now try to imagine her roll when dealing with Rin's life (granted I'm thinking post Shuffle! season one here.) The rest is for another post.