I have an idea 4 an anime y'all!
so it's this basic high schooler npc/background type guy. and with the protag, there's really not anything outwardly special about him (ofc he'll have a completing character tho. the whole thing would suck if no one likes the mc), except one thing. he knows he's in an anime(aka. he's self aware).
the story line is a slice of life version of 'who am I? where is my life going? what do I do?' existential jargon. but the plot and actual content is pretty similar to saiki k, but instead of super powers he's just trying to figure out what genre he's in and trying to guess the plot of his life from then on.
(does anyone know if this has been done before?)
Just thinking that maybe you can make him interesting through the self aware gimmick so he doesn't need a accompanying character
seems fun