#t2 art☆girls

[dailyspicyfigures]

Narukami Yuno ; Original Character ☆ Alphamax

[countv0ncunt]

Obviously had to do a doodle while watching adventuring party. I refused to look at a real basketball for this btw

[dailyfigures]

Jin-Lian ; Original Character ☆ Alphamax

[grailfigure]

Kuriyama Emiri // Original

T2 Art☆Girls by Union Creative International Ltd

[good-beans]

I didn't think much about Fuuta and Mappi when I was speedrunning trial 1. They became my favorites after they got beat up.

Am I wrong for thinking Fuuta looks better in his trial 2 design? I like the more rugged look. Never mind that the poor guy is in constant pain.

Mappi looks just plain sad, though. :(

(Saving the rest of my thoughts for the post about why the guilties are my favorites for being guilty)

Yes!!! Haha, unfortunately I was a Fuuta fan in my t1 speedrun because I was coming down from a redheaded-knight high and Bring it On gave me hope he would be cool (alas....) I wasn't initally a Mahiru fan because TIHTBILWY gave me influencer vibes but once I sat down and looked through all her material I was like "ah shit she's just like me fr and I love her with all my heart huh." But the guilty verdict brought out So Much interesting character development, it's so cool what T2 did!

And okay but it really does suit him?? His vd breaks my heart hearing how much pain he's in, but my guilty little opinion is that he looks really good like that >:3 (There's also the tragic irony that I love -- the beat-up appearance makes him look like the persona he's been putting up. He finally looks the part of the tough guy who will get into a fight for justice.... except... he's not, and he didn't....)

And I love a disheveled character as much as the next guy but they Did Not need to do Mappi that dirty 😭😭😭

👀👀👀 that post sounds really interesting, I can't wait to read it ooh!!

[milgram-tournament]

MILGRAM Best Song Tournament, Round 1, Match 7 BACKDRAFT vs. IT'S NOT MY FAULT

Propaganda for both options under the cut!

Propaganda for BACKDRAFT:

"Backdraft may be a minute shorter than Bring It On, but it’s still over three minutes long, and it makes up for the lost minute with a complex form. The “Pressure! Pressure!” might be the only part that truly repeats.

At the beginning, Fuuta is showing off, acting cool. Then the music slows down as he ponders his verdict. Then the music picks up the pace again and gets more and more frantic as the consequences of his actions catch up to him.

See that structure in the three distinct verses that sound nothing like anything else in the song: cool, contemplative, and “oh no, what have I done”.

The “chorus” (burn burn!) never stays the same. You’ve got the “cool” first chorus. Then you have the muted second chorus as it sinks in that Fuuta’s victim was a middle-school girl, which leads into the tense final chorus (which is twice as long as the first) as the victim and Fuuta both burn.

The instrumental and the spoken-word from the beginning combine in the end, changing the mood of the stanza from confident and showy to panicked and desperate.

And the words… You can hear the wordplay in the last stanza, even if you don’t understand it.

Appreciate this chaotic masterpiece of a song."

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- Fuuta being very cocky at first before realizing how fucked he is (it is kinda funny) - The use of spray cans and overall graffiti symbolism, it’s so good - The multiple eyes and people off camera showing how paranoid Fuuta has become, it’s really well done without being obvious - The name backdraft meaning when a fire deprived of oxygen gets a sudden influx of it. A kind of metaphor for what Fuuta did. Then it being shown through a spray can explosion, aaaa it’s really cool! - Fuuta’s overall look changing, being more realistic on how he actually looks contrasting Bring It On’s idealistic version of himself - Es at the end!! The only time Es shows up in a prisoner’s MV!!! And they looks so damn cool - Also the entire eye thing referencing the audience, he perceives us lmfao

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"Back draft is incredible because it not only has great visual symbolism with the use of the spray cans but its visual symbolism shows a progression from ‘Bring it on’. In ‘Bring it on’ the channelling is glorious , fuuta is surrounded by people and fuuta idealised himself (taller , better teeth , better posture ect) , the people he cancelled were portrayed as these powerful rpg monsters but now in back now the channelling is portrayed as vandalism a crime as destructive , the ally is empty we only ever see others as hands or his victim fuuta is alone and fuuta is no longer idealising his appearance and his mind is now portraying his victim as a harmless cutesy drawing. This shows a change in how fuuta views his crime between T1 and T2. It wasn’t glorious, it wasn't justified , he was at fault. The fire being recontextsied as something out of control , all consuming and out of control which is the opposite of how it was portrayed in ‘Bring it on’ we really see how the vote has changed fuuta."

"There are so many things in the song that show a progression "

-“ deliciously scorched till your mouth waters” > “I don’t want any more”

-fuuta spray paints the camera hen as the end es spray paints him/the camera

-the pressure graffiti changing

"There’s so many interesting details like the applause towards the start of the song , the personality in the subtitles like them going from “Burn , burn!” To “burn , burn?” But the pressure’s punctuation mark stayed the same:   “pressure , pressure!” , the way FIRE is the only word in full caps till LIES. The thumbs down fuuta does during “the fights up here! Come up to the ring and face me!” Part which is like his T1 art , the way the lighting changes from green towards the start and becomes red by the end (stop go colours) , The way fuuta is constantly interacting with the camera , spray painting it twice and kicking it."

"Backdraft actually makes amazing use of the camera , things are often shown from the (camera)audience’s perspective rather than us seeing the events removed. We are there like we are the ones doing it/looking through the eyes of the person doing it. When fuuta/the others spray paint the graffiti of his victim and the ice gorilla it's from the audience’s perspective , we don’t see them do it, we see it like we are doing it. When the spraypaint can explodes it's like it’s exploding in our face and then when es spray paints fuuta at the end they are spray painting the camera(audience). "

"Backdraft makes the most references to the voting system and uses it well to make the audience re-examine if they really are any different. Aren’t we using little information and inferences to hold people accountable for crimes we have no stake in? Aren’t we causing unintended harm? Aren’t we judging them from the safety of our screens? "

"And on a more silly level"

-ARTHUR CONANT GOES SO HARD IN THE VOCALS!!!! COME ON LISTEN TO BURN BURN AND TELL ME THIS MAN ISN’T GIVING IT HIS ALL!

-cat mouth fuuta :3 how can you not love cat mouth fuuta?

-lowpolydog designed amazing graffiti 

Propaganda for IT'S NOT MY FAULT:

"It's Not My Fault is a beautiful song with a REALLY good song texture. Arisa Kori/Muu's voice is literally so amazing here, fitting perfectly with that confident and snarky appearance that Muu seems to want to give off. And just everything about it????? Muu did everything wrong free my girl- I love her bug design here, the pure drama of it and how she showcases Rei as a human in the bug world is so cool."

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inmf!! have you heard the instrumental?! its just so good!!

the way rei turns the hourglass at the beginning!!! and it switches to when muu was at the top of the hierarchy!!!! that was such a cool detail!!!

BUG MUU IS LITERALLY SO CUTE. her smile at 1:19 🥺🥺

The way her voice drops at 1:30 and her 'KAWAISO NANO!!' at 1:51!!!

shes having so much fun while singing this weeeeeee

she's always pitiful!! shes always the drama queen 🥺🥺

please her getting the worst ratio while singing the 'im not guilty' song should alone be the reason she wins

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"INMF is what got me into Milgram in the first place so of course I have to shill for it. I think its one of my favorite MVs Visually as the scenes set in the bug-web location are so visually striking. Muu and the rest of the bugs dark-purple skin and Muu's and neon pink hair stand out so much against it and it's so Pretty and Vibrant.

Storytelling wise INMF is amazing, it's a complete 180 of how Muu is seen in After Pain but not to the point where it feels like Muu is a totally different character. Muu is both a genuine victim and (in my opinion) a failgirl queen. She's trying her best to keep the image up but she is...NOT good at being a manipulative mastermind. And like After Pain before it, you can figure that out just through the visual and lyrical storytelling, that to some extent this is Still Also a Role Muu is Playing.

It's good! It's really good stuff! Muu is a character of cycles and After Pain and INMF work really well as a cyclical story about bullying. I think Muu should Win on having Good Storytelling and Fantastic Visuals and Being a Worst Girl. You should do it for all the girls in the world who are the Worst."

[chaifootsteps]

When it comes to Art the Clown content/the Terrifier series, what's your thoughts Victoria Hayes & the little clown girl (from T2)?

I think that Victoria Hayes's place in Heaven better have skylights and a pool. That poor woman was put through so many meat grinders.

As for the Little Pale Girl, I like their supremely fucked up little friendship. I like when people refer to her as Art's handler, albeit the world's worst handler ever.

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

Kotoko Yuzuriha and Love

Hello Milgram fandom ! So while I prepare my longer Kotoko theory post (the post about Pink-Shirt-Girl), I wanted to make a shorter post about something that has been on my mind for a while now, and I wanted to invite some discussion to it with this post !! Basically: Kotoko has a lot of references to love in her character. So many in fact that I really do feel like it might be relevant. Firstly, let's start with the most prominent example

Girl friend, what does this mean. From the probably hundreds of questions that were asked to Mikoto and Kotoko, this one was one of the twenty that were picked out. And considering how Mikoto's questions were used to foreshadow parts of his MV like the phone call with his mother, I feel like this could very well mean something important that will be explained later on Another thing that I feel is important to comment on is her cover songs, specifically her cover song in T2, Streaming Heart

(source: Vocaloid Wiki)

(source: Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki) Now to be completely fair, a large majority of Deco's library has to do with the theme of relationships, so it's not like Kotoko is necessarily special in that regard. But when you add in the fact that Streaming Heart could be connected to Monoprisoner, Mikoto's T1 cover, abd a few of the lyrics like > "You're a weakling, aren't ya?" (tfw useless weaklings won't shut up and let you protect them like how dare they /j) The choice feels very deliberate and I feel like it is meant to tell us more about Kotoko's character than we're made to believe. These next two points are a pretty big stretch, but I'm going to mention them anyway so I can gloat about being right if I end up being right /j So, Kotoko's birthday art.

I know. She is very beautiful. But more than that, the fruit associated with her cake is the Dragon Fruit, which on one hand is absolutely genius considering the first kanji in Kotoko's name means Japanese Harp (according to the milgram wiki) and that instrument, called a koto funnily enough, has connections to dragons and protection, which fit Kotoko very well (the urge to make a Milgram name meanings analysis post is rising) However, the Dragon Fruit also has connections to love

Now the most likely answer why the dragon fruit was chosen (especially since I could only really find this on one website) is the koto thing I mentioned earlier. But I did find this, so I thought I'd note it down And lastly, probably the biggest stretch of all:

Deep Cover's MV coming out on Mahiru's birthday...is probably a coincidence let's be real. But considering how much love has been foreshadowed for Kotoko's character, her MV coming out on the birthday of Mahiru fucking Shiina feels like something to note This post wasn't comprehensive at all and was mostly just a bunch of rambling about things I've noticed and thought about, but I would love to hear if anyone has any interpretations of what this could mean overall ! PS: I wrote half of this post dead fucking tired after an all nighter. if you see any typos, no you don't

[good-beanswrites]

Some questions about LCSYS?

What do they do about hair growth? I'd think hair extensions, but Amane's bangs are really short in her MVs and go past her face in T2, so it seems like it'd be too noticeable?. And Kazui is clean-shaven at the beginning of Cat. Did he record that part shortly after Es went to sleep?

And what about self duplicates? I suppose most of them can get away with camera tricks, but Yuno gets up close and personal with her selves. Amane also has a ton of them that stand close together and move very distinctly.

Ooh, these are really interesting to think about, thank you! >:0 It made me finally look up the length of the canon hiatus (Mar 16 to Aug 3), exactly 20 weeks. The internet says shooting a music video usually only takes like three days to film and a few weeks of editing -- so I think it's doable to plan and film them simultaneously in that time.

I pictured they’d plan the videos immediately upon finishing the trial, to keep the feeling of immersion and all related emotions fresh, but also give them plenty of time to do some more challenging things. This may mean planning trips to certain locations, inviting/persuading certain people to come film, or dealing with hair growth. Kazui does his clean-shaven filming first (since Hinako was already there in Half, it was easy to plan for her to return quickly. Jackalope may have had that worked out before the trial even ended.) Amane is a bit trickier, but I wonder if the bangs themselves are additions 🤔 She wears additional short hair for the video and lets her hair keep growing underneath. She'll be able to grow just over two inches in those 20 weeks. (The thing is, comparing the art, I don’t know if that could’ve happened canonically in that time frame anyways 😅 So I’m allowed to stretch it a bit in the au…)

Now, I was originally thinking they only used camera tricks for any duplicate appearances. Haruka gets a younger stunt double. Fuuta, Shidou, and Mikoto can get by filming the scenes twice in different positions. Yuno has to do a bit with a physical double (seen from behind or used minor effects to make them identical). But now that I think more about it, there was a behind-the-scenes video I saw about the Matrix clones -- despite the mask thing being kinda creepy, I think it’d be incredibly sweet to have that many children on the set. They don’t have to do the full mask process, maybe they all wear wigs/makeup that make them match well enough to show up in the background. Either way, Amane goes from one of the loneliest T1 videos to having a hundred little girls stand around her, march with her, and fight for her <3 If the planning stage of Purge March wasn’t already making her second guess her upbringing, having a literal army of girls just like her hanging out for a few days definitely does.

And woo stay tuned for the Deep Cover section coming soon! 🐺

[skiplo-wave]

Does terrifer have lore?

It does :D

So basically T1 Art is regular depraved serial killer

T2 he’s brought back by a demon ( via the pale clown girl) Sienna our official final girl is key player in defeating this demon and Art

T3 expands on it more here and there. I have some theories as to why specifically Sienna is chosen one to defeat the demon and art. But we will get more answers in 4th movie

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T2 Art Girls - "Ojousama no Hanazono" Aoi Tenjiku 1/6 Complete Figure 💛

[dailyspicyfigures]

Shoubi Yae ; Reconnect ☆ Alphamax

[ifwewere-stories]

📚 Pff, me pegó el bloqueo lector de mitad de año, asi que solo terminé una novela cortita, «A Magical Girl Retires», y la disfruté muchito.

📺 Además de estar sintonizando HotD y haber visto lo que se estrenó de la última temporada de Cobra Kai, vi la tercera de «The Bear», que no llegó al peak que fue su segunda, pero igual continúa siendo arte; coincido con todo mundo en que Napkins y Ice Chips fueron los mejores episodios. También vi la T2 de «A Kind of Spark», serie feel-good bien bonita basada en la novela homónima de Elle McNicoll; tras su primera temporada —estrenada el año pasado— no pensé que habría más, y pues yo felíz de volver a Addie Darrow y compañía.

🎬 «20th Century Women» llevaba mucho tiempo en mi watchlist y no decepcionó. Luego iniciaron los JJ.OO. y realmente dije ✨french cinema✨; lo que se tradujo, por supuesto, en aventarme dos de Céline Sciamma, además de «Cléo de 5 a 7» y «Amélie».

🎶 Anduve escuchando lo nuevo de las (G)I-DLE y también lo nuevo de mis queridos BASTILLE, y amo todo. Y otra canción que no solté fue "Homecoming" de Green Day —después de rato sin escucharla— y nobody likes you everyone left you they're all out without you ha-vin' fun!

[dailyfigures]

Bao-Chai ; Original Character ☆ Alphamax

[milgram-tournament]

MILGRAM Best Song Tournament, Round 2, Match 3 MAGIC vs. MEME

Propaganda for both options under the cut!

Propaganda for MAGIC:

MAGIC MY BELOVED MAGIC!!! Its one of the best MVs in the entire series, even including T2. Magic is visually stunning and has some fantastic art direction but also is very clever in how it conveys its themes and ideas. Magic doesn't really hide anything from you, not really. It's all symbolic but it Tells You Things. It shows you the abuse, it shows you the cat. There's a fun little relationship going on here where, In Magic. Amane's pain and suffering isn't taken seriously by the people around her and the Audience we are discouraged to take it at face value due to the fictionalized nature of Magic. It's so cool. I'm so fond of the song as well, it's one of the best in the series purely cause of the Layers in it. The implications of this Inability to be good is seeped into Magic. Amane knows this isn't reality, Magic knows it's a show, she watches it at the end. And it's so Sad to me that even in her fictionalized happy world she Cannot be a good girl. It's a standard completely out of reach for her and that idea is just conveyed so well visually.

Im not even talking about the goddamn cat yet- the cat symbolism goes Deep. That cat is HER it has the same wounds Amane has in Purge March. I- I cant talk about the intertextuality of Purge March and Magic here this is Magic propaganda only- I- there's so much good stuff to Magic. I Re watched it over and over again. It has some the Best Writing and Visual Communication in Milgram and I will Die on this Hill.

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shoutout to magic for having pretty props AND being vague as fuck about the crime! diversity win!

seriously though amane looks SO cute in it! the mv has such a pretty and colorful style and even with that it's able to show the horrors of what amane went through.

adding onto my last point. that scene where the cat is hyperventilating and you see the camera shaking???? that scene where the mascots find amane helping the cat and they're all standing over her? CHILLS. im repeating myself but the fact that they were able to portray the awful things amane went through in a genuinely emotional way while still keeping the cute cartoon look is soo impressive

there are SO many layers to itill the entire cartoony style making it look like a tv show… utilizing the cartoony effects and bright colors to show amane downplaying her own pain… the transformation after she gets punished barely changing anything to show just how manipulated she was from the start… ueueueue

ALSO ALSO ALSO THE SCENE AT THE END WITH AMANE STARING AT THE SCENE? OHHH ITS SO GOOD it adds such a feeling of dread and reminds you on top of this whole thing that all of this is truly horrifying! something is going on here!

this song is so catchy it gets stuck in my head CONSTANTLY

"Dear wise one, Am I worthy? Is it ok to spoil myself?" AMANE... UEUEUUEUE

the little ding sound effects in the instrumental?????

amanes voice is ADORABLE

THE INSTRUMENTAL IN THAT PART WHERE SHES HELPING THE CAT HAS THAT GODLY TYPE SOUND YOUD TYPICALLY ASSOCIATE WITH CHURCHES AND STUFF AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT PROPERLY BUT JUST RELISTEN TO IT AND YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I MEAN. ITS SUCH A NEAT DETAIL

i could go on about this mv for days but i am not a theorist unfortunately. just. magic sweep

Propaganda for MEME:

"MeMe is fantastic because it plays off the audience’s assumptions about Mikoto as a character and tells a “double story”. There’s layers to it and it’s deliberately deceptive in the way it presents the events out of order. Even the instrumentals themselves tell a story. The shift from piano in the second chorus climax is so good - and the way they combine in the last chorus, plus the addition of a violin culminates the song perfectly."

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"For propaganda: I love meme so much because even the music alone tells as whole story. It goes from heavy metal to calm to heavy metal to calm and that happens a few times and then there’s an epic and creepy intermission with an amazing guitar and a scary of sound of Mikoto’s heavy breathing. And then the psychedelic music and BAM the final chorus. The final chorus of meme just gives me the absolute chills. Like it’s the calmer chorus we see earlier but with epic symphonic metal and an amazing build up and climax like it’s perfectly encapsulates a story through music alone I just love it so much. Also it’s literally called meme lmao."

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"I could go on about the motifs in MeMe - like identity loss, living and dying, dreaming etc. It's a song, more than with any other character, about the inner self and what hides from the surface. Of the fear that comes with one's identity and place in the world being challenged and crumbling. The intricate designs on the tarot cards have so much depth to them"

[oboetemasuka]

You're turning this on me? Hmm.... hmm...

Honestly, I don't think I think enough about Jackalope to be able to bully him. (I apologize if I use internet slang that I've never used before.)

Fuuta. I mean, what's not to bully? He's a loser. He's pathetic. He's short. He lost an eye and is constant pain. He's absolutely ridden with guilt over what he's done. (Petty of me to keep bringing up his height when I'm shorter than him.)

Shidou. Man was barely voted forgiven in T1. He lost his wife and kids, and then he got the highest forgiven percentage, and then... that just wasn't interesting enough to the audience. It took Triage 9 months to hit 1M views. The "After Pain" Es cover and the T2 songs trailer hit 1M faster than Triage. Amane throws pancakes on him. He didn't participate in the arm wrestling match in Yamanaka's tweet. Shidou, you coward. At least Fuuta had the guts to lose to every guy and Kotoko.

Mikoto. Poor, pathetic guy who doesn't know why he's here. Falls on his behind and stares at tarot cards in horror as John looks down on him. Frantically runs through the subway train and almost trips. Super normal guy. Also, I'm eagerly waiting for Amane to dethrone him.

Muu. Get dethroned. The former breakout hit queen of both trials. Now she's been stomped by Amane twice. Watch her T3 song be a bop... and then watch T3 Amane knock her down yet again. While I found T1 really sad and quite the moral dilemma, I laughed through all of T2 and how confident she was about her verdict. Girl, you spent half of T1 in the red and barely survived. So much bug spray and flyswatter art...

Kotoko. I have so many conflicting thoughts about her vote. Do I forgive her because she's beautiful? Do I slam her because she has slighted every prisoner? Honestly, I think I will go through with my bet of "vote her innocent after Day 1 and eat popcorn as she gets worse than Muu". ...Or she doesn't get worse than Muu, and I begrudgingly lovingly create a cross stitch of her.

Es. Pretty much all the reasons you stated, but also, if Es dares to hit Amane a third time, I'm getting my revenge.

Amane. Bad things happen to Amane. That is all.

Kazui. Old man jokes, I guess? He's not even that old.

Haruka. Kind of hard to bully him when his story makes me more sad than anything, but poor guy isn't exactly the front runner of the show. Weakness was overtaken by Muu and Amane's songs. AKAA is lagging in views given that it was the first T2 song.

Yuno. She's not asking for anyone's opinions. But also, I wonder if I would've participated in the "sopping wet cat Yuno" trend if I wasn't on vacation at the time.

Mahiru. I see a bit too much of myself in her, and she's too badly injured for me to make fun of her. Even the 69.69% jokes weren't amusing to me. I was too busy slamming the "innocent" button on her and Kazui.

I wrote this on the fly, so I apologize for any and all bad takes.

Rank the Milgram characters by how often you bully them (or how likely you would).

Now these are the real Milgram questions, thank you 👏

Jackalope: If I was a better cook I'd make rabbit stew.

Fuuta: My man. My skrunkly. My sad wet cat. I am always bullying him. He’s nasty. He’s mean. He's lame. He fucked up so so bad. He’s insufferable. Bad fashion. A gamer. Twitter user. Probably stinky. I love him with all my heart.

Shidou: Also love him and exist in a state on nonstop shittalking. He sucks and he’s the biggest drama queen in Milgram. Everything he does is ridiculously dramatic. Oh, did you know he's a doctor? Did he mention that yet???? He’s extra in his videos and his questions and minigrams and official art. He’s gotta chill.

Kotoko: Also a drama queen. She’s so INTENSE. She’s STRUNG TIGHT. She’s that person who outdoes everyone at the potluck and there’s no need for all that. She needs to Chill Out which makes her fun to tease.

Es: I know they’re doing their best but also I have so much to say on the way they’re running things. The Puerto Rico thing. The kicking-grown-men-fairly-often thing. The John thing. Seriously? That's the name you pick? Fucking John?????

Kazui: Also a drama queen. I mean, I'm extra about being gay too but he’s being so dramatic about it that it’s literally getting people killed 🙄

Mikoto: Teasing him only for his denial of the situation. It has been 3+ years. Please. Have a shred of self reflection. Look inside for one tiny second. Please. I’m begging you. And also bullying you until you do.

John: I mean I completely understand trying to fix a problem and fucking things up further but that doesn't mean I can't bully him for it too

Muu: She and Haruka are a bit harder to tease because their stories make me more sad than anything, but also. Bee jokes.

Haruka: I am so so sad over him all the time. However he is very dramatic about some things and I can tease him a bit. As a treat.

Mahiru: Character of all time, she’s done nothing wrong, but she gets a little bit of bullying for the same reason as Mikoto. Girl that’s rats!!!!!

Yuno: Once again she makes me too emotional to effectively bully. She’s staying in her lane and not being overdramatic. She’s pissed off all the time and she should be!!

Amane: What could I even tease her about?? I would actively join her in bullying Fuuta and Shidou in those minigrams, and anyone else she wanted. Muu better watch out, there’s new mean girls in town

Also I'm officially turning this back on you (and anyone who sees this) because now I want to see people's bullying tiers 😂