#sumio tanaka

[lentl-soup]

Happy 15th anniversary to TWEWY and 1st anniversary to NTWEWY!

Not relating to the anniversary specifically, but here’s a piece I did for It’s So Wonderful: A TWEWY pride zine!

🏳️‍🌈🎉

[flattest-twewy-character]

WHO IS FLATTER?!

Sumio Tanaka

2nd in command DRS guy

Maito Minami

Voting ended onMay 1, 2023

[voicefromthecorner]

Motoi’s voice from beyond the grave: Everything is going according to keikaku.

Sumio’s voice to the other Purehearts: Translator’s note: Keikaku means plan.

[voicefromthecorner]

I went back to the unspoken hero of this game, Sumio, and tried his sidequest with Motoi, choosing the “quote” option. Have to wonder how Motoi felt, getting a taste of his own medicine. And remember, the context is Motoi suggesting something of a co-operative effort with the other teams (two days before he planned to sell his own team out and jump ship, the scumbag) in the group chat. The relevance of that quote to that context must be as lost on Motoi as it is on me. Unlike when I last chose something, Motoi doesn’t respond immediately, implying he’s still scratching his head at it.

It’s also an interesting choice because it’s Rindo at his most regressive. He’ll later go on to say that he used to just parrot An0ther quotes without thinking but that he’s grown to really consider things in a way that he didn’t used to thanks to his experiences. He’s also not long off finding out that his idol and the source of these quotes is a fraud, but here he is imitating him and considering his only issue here to be the lack of An0ther quotes that he can remember. This choice shows Rindo at his weakest point, character development-wise.

I have to wonder if Rindo ever does go on to review An0ther quotes after everything. He’ll have a lot to rethink once the Reaper’s game is done, no doubt.

And of course, outside of everything else, this choice gives us Nagi and Beat being incredibly savage in their own respective ways. “Truly devastating words coming from one such as yourself” - Nagi’s out her to murder everyone!

[voicefromthecorner]

This choice was killer because I wanted to see every option here and play it out. But if I have to choose one, I need to know what Rindo’s form of imitation takes, so I went for being An0ther-y! I look forward to seeing what other messages lead to. A close second was Beat’s total honesty approach.

Of flipping course he found a way to use the word keikaku. It’s so meme-y at this point that the word alone just makes me giggle. At the very least, Sumio’s very satisfied, which honestly makes me pretty happy.

Also, bold trust from Sumio to just give Rindo the reins and let him send the message without verifying it. I’m guessing that’ll result in different reactions in the other choices.