Inside the Mind of a Quiet Girl

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Oshi no Ko KADOKAWA KDcolle Figurine Kurokawa Akane

Release Date: December 2024 Pre-order: on Aitaikuji

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It's so cool how Mr. Tatsuya Endo drew Martha's hair getting longer to illustrate the passage of time in the series.

Eyoooooo it's backstory time! So Mutsumi and Taiyo have known each other since elementary school, and thus pre-Mutsumi's accident. Also, Taiyo lives close enough to Mutsumi's house that they can be considered "neighbors" (although I doubt they're next door to each other—they probably just live in the same neighborhood and sometimes run into each other). Do you think he ever met her parents?

So Mutsumi's hair streak (which is described as "gray" or "silver" in the manga but gets depicted as solid white in the anime) doesn't hold any sort of dye. That would explain why she doesn't cover up the streak even though it's incredibly conspicuous—she tried hiding it, and wasn't able to make it stick. Considering (spoilers) it's a byproduct of some Yozakura-blood-based experiment gone wrong, it's not surprising that ordinary products like hair dye don't affect it. The supernatural abilities probably reject any foreign bodies as a defense mechanism.

I'm curious whether Mutsumi ever tried outright cutting off that streak of hair. It seems like the obvious solution. Then again, if it's growing straight from the roots, the discolored hair would probably just grow back again. Or maybe something about its supernaturalness prevented it from being cut. In any case, Mutsumi clearly wasn't able to hide it, or else she would have done so already, hence the trouble.

This is SUCH a Taiyo move. He sees Mutsumi cornered by bullies who are threatening to cut off her hair, and his response is to take the scissors and cut HIS hair instead, thus scaring off the bullies and saving Mutsumi. It's impulsive, it's random, and it successfully gets rid of the problem without having to threaten or physically hurt anyone. And he doesn't even think twice about it! He just grabs those scissors and goes to town. Truly a shonen protagonist /j

Also, this is the first time Taiyo and Mutsumi address each other by first names, which leads to this sweet moment:

Taiyo helped Mutsumi through one of the worst periods of her life, protecting her from trouble long before the whole head-of-the-family thing became relevant to his life. This is what Mutsumi was talking about when she said that Taiyo has "always been like this": from the very beginning, he's been a boy who would step in without the slightest hesitation to help someone in need. He's honest and kind, and for Mutsumi, who had just lost her parents and needed to keep a stiff upper lip for the sake of her household, that was everything.

Mutsumi's cute little smirk while she teases Taiyo gives me LIFE <33 They're so cute your honor.

Happy Mother’s Day! ❤️

Another Mother’s Day post to accompany the last one!

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I don't think creators should never take input from fans or cater to them, but I'm so tired of franchises & series being drastically altered midway because the creators let fans bully them into changing the direction of a story. On rare occasions this can result in improvement, but often it just results in the story becoming unrecognizable at best!

It’s the difference between keeping in touch with what fans like and taking constructive criticism about your work vs sacrificing authenticity and artistic integrity in the effort to be as mass marketable as possible.

I don't think creators should never take input from fans or cater to them, but I'm so tired of franchises & series being drastically altered midway because the creators let fans bully them into changing the direction of a story. On rare occasions this can result in improvement, but often it just results in the story becoming unrecognizable at best!

I'm now of the opinion that creators of big-budget media should not be chronically online while they are in the process of making said piece of media.