#Rika 🤝 Nanako and Mimiko 🤝 Mai

[cursed-spirit-manipulation]

i like Yuuta well enough he's a weird little guy but. He is in close competition with Suguru for the award of "the writing choices surrounding them make me feel real fucking uncomfortable." Suguru's still winning bc of the fact his storyline has 3 different young girls' pain/trauma is used to fuel his character development. Riko is... A bit uncomfy, but she is A Character. But Nanako and Mimiko are genuinely inexcusable because they exist in the story to make Geto seem more sympathetic instead of just fucking evil, as seen by the fact they fucking die and aren't acknowledged afterwards (even when Miguel and Lauren participate in the story they aren't fucking MENTIONED). But God I hate how Rika is treated by the narrative it's genuinely just. A mess imo. Like 1. Obviously her primarily defining trait is loving Yuuta which is already ehhh 2. Dies as a kid and is obsessed w Yuuta 3. This isn't because of HER OWN ACTIONS BUT RATHER YUUTA CURSING HER 4. After "passing on" her curse form is. Still fucking there and being used as a tool 5. Her character profile seems to imply she was abused in some way by her family which. I don't have a lot to say beyond :/