I'd like to know your answers to the questions 17 and 24 (:
17. favorite character design?
i have a pink haired character bias in design!!!!
the first characters i get attached to anywhere are always the pink haired first. someoka is one of the first characters i liked even before i like aki and gouenji. then i like tsunami, hori michiko, takanashi, even touko (whom i used to think have pink hair) and literally every pink characters across the series.
my 3rd team in vicro had 5 pink haired characters in it but i didn't screenshot the other pinkies. this is the only picture i can find of the team (bcs i dont ss a lot) before i rearranged the members
but my most favorite design-wise are these two:
i think sakura having a sakura patterned hair is just so adorable all the while keeping her hair neatly tied since she has about lived her life for gymnastics and has become part of getting ready in the morning regardless of her schedule. i also just adore this kind of hair style because it shows a lot of background and upbringing (very strict from how neat it is in her case, even the two lose hair beside her face being symmetrical states its intentional need to be different among peers) PLUS i love thick eyebrows that's close to being a dot!! not to mention her cute blush. WHEEE SAKURAAAAAA
i mentioned this in bsky before but daigo's and yamato's design having pink flowy long hair for antagonists who wants to perpetuate patriarchal rule is really so smart. and the way that their hair doesn't hide any part of their face says a lot about their assertive personalities as well as confidence. i cant find my ss of it but yamato's casual attire especially made me like him more than daigo but i like them both all the same. it is kind of interesting to me that daigo and yamato dress in opposites though despite yamato (more punk) wanting to follow his father (formal business attire).
i'll let you off with my top two since we're going to take forever here if you make me talk about the rest...
24. opinion on areori?
i did not finish ares so my opinions here probably wouldn't have much gravity. but this was something i wrote about it 2+ years ago if you're interested in reading i think it's nicer said than my current opinion of it now. which is:
my first ick is the inclusion of prior main characters that already had their character development. i dont think we need them here at all. i would have loved the new ones and eisei to have taken the stage but i don't think the people who created this liked them enough to let them be characters here. i think i'd let my bsky post say the rest for me:
i really always try to watch areori but the lack of love the writers have for inakuni makes it so hard. why make them your main team if you don't even see them as 3 dimensional characters. i can only love things that are given love by their creators. the staff here only treated them as characters to fill the quota who can only be silly. their pain are easily forgotten bcs the staff themselves don't want to dig any deeper to it or wants to think about it. the lack of anything but hype moments that eventually does nothing makes it so boring. not to mention the prevalent need to put older characters there when they're not going to do anything anyway. theyre just there to nostalgia bait. this isn't created with love of writing. or love of your own characters at the very least. the lack of passion really bothers me all the time.
at least there's norika.
and please dont even try going "here's a non-inakuni character you may be interested in" at me here. they made the choice to make them the main team. a conscious choice. they should have given them the love that comes with being the main team. otherwise, they should've chose haizaki's or nosaka's.
the fact that victory road did the exact opposite of this where they're only interested in three characters in their main team and then 0 interests in the other teams except for haru has still done it better because they didn't easily written off the characters' pain and took the time to apply reason to some of the silly actions do show that they learned from areori. by a little.
i have really strong opinions about areori's storytelling because i hate media that doesn't care about their own characters. but also sorry for the negativity sgsjdgs .. actually im not sure if you've read this bsky post actually dhsjdgd
BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASKS!!! I APPRECIATE IT!!!
