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Helloo!! I've grown to really like shiho recently, and I want to talk about her LMAO

Shiho is mischaracterised or misunderstood a lot as a 'mean' character, liking to her sadly being one of the least liked characters in the game. This is because many people rely on how she's seen through the main story and don't look at her as a whole through her focus events. (Quite funny how 'mean' main story male characters face this issue less and people acknowledge their development...i might discuss this issue with misogyny another day...). Anyways, here is a quick analysis of her!!

Before Shiho even picked up the bass, she was a child very dedicated to perfection and doing well. Nobody told her to, but she was extremely dedicated nonetheless. This is shown in Shiho4, where she is doing calligraphy for a school assignment (something she is good at already because she does it outside of school). Despite it getting praise from her peers and her teacher, she still believes she can do better and wants to reach a level to her personal satisfaction. Because of this, she skipped on a classmates birthday party to practice and perfect her assignment after school

This line alone shows that she wants something SHE is content with. And if you know shiho, she sets the bar very high for herself (hence why she was in the 'Dreamers' world link 3 unit. Just like An, Tsukasa, and Minori, they all work extremely hard for a goal they've had since a young age)

When she gets introduced to bass, she is determined to learn well within the first time she picks it up. Love at first sight. But she's aware of how her brain ticks and is very aware that when she's focused on doing something, she has to do it well. But because of this, she declines to learn the bass as she fears hurting people around her because she knows she'll prioritise her passion over free time. Perfection, just like her sister, is an important thing to Shiho but she's worried about what it can bring. (Shizuku and Shiho have a lot more in common than you think...)

Because of this, flashforward to middle school, Shiho distances herself from Honami and Ichika. This is because her passion for bass is so strong that people think she's 'too serious', which leads to rumours about her being a mean person (cough cough...autistic Shiho is real in my eyes...). People misunderstand her completely. She isn't mean. She just wants to do things as well as she could. Because of these rumours about her, she distances herself from Ichika and Honami because spite her being able to 'handle it', she cares heavily about her friends and doesnt want them to be impacted from rumours. Your honour, she cares a lot about her friends :( she just struggled with communicating these worries and feelings.

Another flashforward to Shiho1. She loves her friends dearly, and she wants to pursue her dream of going pro TOGETHER. But she fears that they don't take that as seriously as her, which brings her a lot of conflict because she doesn't want to hurt her friends, but she wants to do her dream no matter what.

People have boundaries sometimes, and also people have dreams and the expectation of Shiho having to give up her dream just so she can protect her friends from being 'hurt' is straight up wrong and it's her dream :( god forbid she's passionate and direct with what she wants to do (I am always a shiho defender). Very happy she was direct about her feelings, because it led to them taking music seriously and yayy they went pro!! Woohoo!! Ignore the ominous Saki. Saki please communicate your feeling Saki pleas

This is an interesting response, and thank you for sharing your views/personal input!!

Undeniably they both said things in the unit story they shouldnt of said. But anyways, both units made up, and they both had character development 🤔 I understand where youre coming from though, Tsukasa's 'mean moment' was him letting out his rage at Nene and being very rude to her ☹️ Tsukasa still has the occasional person disliking him because of this, but it doesn't compare to Shiho and how misunderstood she is when they've BOTH had character development

Reason one is, well, she's a girl. Sadly, this fandom has misogyny in it, and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. The boys are forgiven a lot easier for any 'bad traits' or actions they have done. I've had this conversation with people before regarding fandom misogyny, and how if Tsukasa was a girl he would be a LOT more disliked.

Number two is the fact she's part of Leo/Need, the most popular unit in game, meaning less people actually read their stories compared to more popular units leading to this misunderstanding of her as a character. I'll even admit that before reading all of the leoni stories, I didn't REALLY know her, and she was probably near the bottom of my character rankings. Now she's top 5 🥹

Another notable reason is personality. Tsukasa has a "silly and loud" personality, making him your more stereotypical, likeable character. He's used for comedic relief a lot, which is why he's more likeable. (I'll even admit he's been my favourite character since i was 13 LMAO). On the other hand, Shiho has a more serious personality and can sometimes be viewed as 'cold'. Compared to Tsukasa, she's nothing like him, making her generally more stereotypically dislikable in the fandom

Lastly is because I believe some of the fanbase is quite similar to Shihos classmates. I do believe there is a decent portion of people who seriously do not understand how her brain portrays things. If you think abiut it, Shiho and Rui have the thing in common where they were very passionate in something since they were a child, but we're judged for it because people simply didn't understand how their brain worked (both of my autism hcs for them are shining through) but the difference is the REAL pjsk fanbase has this issue with Shiho (and Rui is more liked and understood)

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[pt: “quick announcement post!! :D” /end pt]

okay so two things:

1) i’ve set up an instagram for this zine under the username project_dreamlight, so do what you want with that information :]

also that will be the only other social that i set up for this account since i feel uncomfy about using tiktok or twitter due to Circumstances™️ and i don’t have much experience with bluesky.

2) yeah so remember how i said applications were done by the 25th? so actually in order to accomodate for folks seeing this zine on instagram for the first time, the deadline will be extended to the end of the day (~11 pm CST) on may 30th! :D

[pt: "applications are now closed!!" /end pt]

we received 49 applications in total!! :D

thank you so much to everyone who submitted an application to work on this zine! :D

Op here!! I can in fact confirm this counts as transkasa ✅️