Emerje wrote:I don't understand your surprise. Are you trying to imply that she wasn't a popular or well known character?
That's exactly what he's saying. Airazor was the least popular Maximal of the show's cast. Not because of any dislike people had for her (which most didn't/don't have towards her), but because the show didn't really do anything with her. She was always treated less like a main character and more like a guest star when compared to the rest of her teammates, and never once got a focal episode of her own (her debut episode gave more spotlight attention to Rhinox, Cheetor, Terrorsaur, and Blackarachnia, with the episode treating her less as a person and more as a plot device since she spent most of it as a dying protoform). The most that the show ever really acknowledged about her was that she was a flyer and that she was "the girl" Maximal, but even then, she got a significantly less amount of focus compared to her Predacon counterpart Blackarachnia, even in just Season 1 alone. Granted, Blackarachnia did debut earlier than Airazor, but it took a few episodes for BA to come into her own as a character since her first few appearances were similarly unceremonious towards her, but once the show found its footing for Blackarachnia in the first season, she was able to shine properly while Airazor never really got to have that same treatment. Airazor was just kinda there to be another flyer, to give the Maximals some female representation, and that was pretty much it for Airazor.
Emerje wrote:and probably most importantly the Japanese fans seem to really like her (once they decided she actually is a "her").
Which was only in the Metals manga. She was still male in the show, and made into a crossdressing male office lady in the Legends manga.