#shoutout to sumimi's mana-chan who seems to be the only one who still cares about uika

[a-bucket-full-of-feels]

about uika in episode 9

i've been seeing discussions about the past 2 episodes where uika basically doesn't appear, and after ep 9 i feel like this is also partly intentional to demonstrate how nobody seems to care much about uika as an individual - nobody approaches her in this whole ave mujica/crychic revival drama, she's always the one approaching others

uika approaches anon to find out that crychic briefly reunited and that sakiko wants to revive crychic

uika approaches umiri to tell her that she wants to revive ave mujica as well (and in the midst of umiri's quest to revive ave mujica, umiri personally asked everyone except uika herself)

uika approaches her manager at the agency to ask if they can bring back ave mujica, only to be told that it's not possible and they were in the midst of discarding their costumes

as the girls were arguing over crychic and ave mujica at RiNG, uika's presence ignored by everyone and nobody asks her about her opinion even once

the only person who approached uika on their own accord was sakiko when she wanted to form ave mujica, in a bid to forget about crychic which she was forced to leave behind

and now that sakiko is against re-forming ave mujica, she also ignores uika, discarding her when she's no longer of use to her

all despite uika selflessly helping sakiko - forming mujica despite being active with sumimi, and allowing sakiko to stay with her when she had no place to go to

it's becoming clear why her mujica persona is doloris (sorrow) - when nobody values you as a friend/bandmate/person, how will you not feel sorrowful?