Ready to see true darkness
Which characters are supposedly saying those lines? Are they all supposed to be from Asuka? One of them sounds like a response to the others.
Asuka and Tomoko
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The English translation makes it confusing at first to see who was speaking which line. On second reading... Good Lord, Asuka violently possessive, isn't she?
the popularity results came out, yuri won first, tomoko 2nd, and nemo third. and yuri and tomoko won best pairing, followed by nemo and tomoko, and then ucchi and tomoko.
Ready to see true darkness
Forever not amused.
The popularity has a lot of very interesting results.
Yuri being first by that margin might seem surprising at first but becomes understandable if you've been following the series over the years. She really is not what she first appears to be and it's great exploring that when Tomoko herself has matured and gotten friends.
Sachi completely beating out Asuka in both the individual character popularity poll and the pairing poll. Sachi is popular enough to have her and the Minami pairing be in the Top 5 and then appear again at #10 with Sachi and Tomoki. Asuka only has her Tomoko pairing in the Top 20 at #6. Yuri and Nemo with each other managed to top Asuka and Tomoko in the pairing poll (Tomoko-Yuri-Nemo is a power trio).
Fuuka in the Top 10 for popularity. Let's go. I was worried people would find her too annoying to like, but she turned that into a strength.
13, 14, 15 in the Character Poll is very funny when knowing what the initial purpose of these 3 characters are. Yuu (#13) is Tomoko's first best friend, Mako (#14) is Yuri's first best friend, and Akane (#15) is Nemo's first best friend. All of them around the same tier of popularity.
I'm very surprised Kaho managed to beat Sayaka and Reina. Kaho as far as I recall has not had as much focus as either of them. I don't think there's even a super memorable Kaho moment yet. Itou deserves better than #21 but she's fine being low-key.
Have a separate post for the return of the alternate universe Tomoko's in Vol. 20.
Edited by IceAnt573 on Sep 17th 2021 at 12:09:50 PM
I wouldn't put a lot of weight in the poll because it wasn't restricted to one vote per day nor per person. Simply opening the poll in a new tab was enough to let you vote as many times as you wanted. That's why there's such a huge difference between the first places and the rest of the options.
Here's a page from a recently released novel anthology that shows an interesting side of Asuka if the translation is accurate
https://imgur.com/RLRBVzz
"If you do that, you'll have less time to spend with us, more boring complaints and love advice, and you might even fail to get into Aoyama University because you won't have time to study, right?"
"Of course, you need a change of scenery once in a while. That's why I didn't stop you from going to the party, but the two guys sitting in front of you were trying to ask for your contact information. They and you had never met before, and they were rude to you. So I warned them with explosions and threatening letters and stuff, but they didn't show any remorse, did they? I think it was really rude of them to touch your shoulder over a game. So I had no choice but to use the trap to drop the piggy bank on them."
"You thought to injure any one of them, didn't you?"
"That's right. If one of the men sitting in the back gets hurt, it will be enough of a check. In fact, that party ended pretty quickly, didn't it? Yeah, I think it went well."